Nick Hirakawa
Programmer / Web Developer / Software Engineer
I currently work at HubSpot in Cambridge, MA
My interests lie in distributed systems, web development, networking, databases, and information retrieval.
Work Experience
Software Engineer
HubSpot
Cambridge, MA
May 2016 - Present
Software Engineer
Tyco Security Products
Westford, MA
June 2014 - May 2016
Skills
- Programming Languages: Java, Python, JavaScript, C/C++, Go
- Frameworks/Libraries: Dropwizard, Kafka, Hadoop, Node.js, Angular.js
- Databases: MySQL, HBase, Elasticsearch, CouchDB
Education
- B.S. Computer Science
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
- Cumulative 3.34 GPA
Graduated May 2014
Projects
PySearch
- A search engine made from various homework assignments in my search engines class
- Uses BM25 ranking function
- Written in Python, using Django to handle search requests and MySQL to hold inverted index
Coursework
- Operating Systems
- Web Programming
- Information Systems
- Search Engines
- Computer Networks
- Artificial Intelligence