Graduate Research Assistant
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2014 - May 2014 (5 months)
* Built a backend JSON API using GeoDjango/Tastypie for MetPetDB, a web application which is used by a global team of metamorphic petrology researchers to store and manage their database of rock samples. * Reduced API response times by almost 80\% by patching Tastypie to optionally accept a list of database fields to retrieve during a GET request and ignore the rest. * Implemented authorization and authentication logic on the backend to limit unauthorized access to data.