BETHANY M. SOULE
Master of SCIENCE 
bms2126@columbia.edu
734.904.0953 

I want to build things that people use.  I want a programming position that 
gives me the chance to get really good at something, to master some domain.  
I want to dream of electric sheep. 


EDUCATION: 

M.S. Computer Science, May 2009 
Columbia University, New York NY - 3.0 GPA 

B.A. Russian, May 2004 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 
Minor in Painting - 3.6 GPA 


PERSONAL PROJECTS: 

  Beeminder.com 
  Automatically graph progress towards a goal such as weight loss, number of 
    pushups, or hours worked.  Bugs you regularly for a number and updates your 
    graph. 
  PHP, CSS, Perl. 

  Timepie 
  Tracks how you spend your time by randomly sampling from you over the course 
    of the day. 
  Java, Android SDK, SQLite. 

  Numbered IMs (NIMS) 
    An Adium plugin that implements a simple protocol to verify message 
    receipt. 
  Objective C. 

  Babynamer 
    A poll/voting website, in Reddit style. People add items and vote up/down. 
  Ruby on Rails. 

  Taskbot 
    An instant message bot that acts as a group task manager. 
  Java, jYMSG API. 


TECHNICAL:

Javascript, PHP, Ruby (on Rails), Java, C++, C, XHTML, CSS, Scheme, 
OS X/Unix/Linux, MySQL, WordPress, Perl, Python, Subversion, Git, Bzr


EXPERIENCE:

Beeminder.com
  Co-founder and CTO
  Nov 2010 - Present
Bethany is the resident Rails guru and does everything from the MongoDB
backend to Jquery in the front. She deploys daily.

FireDogLake.com 
  WordPress developer, freelance 
  April 2010 - Nov 2010 
Single handedly launched my.firedoglake.com from implementing the theme, to 
writing custom wordpress plugins, customization of the BuddyPress plugin, large 
scale migration of user accounts and existing data for ~30K users into the new 
site, and addressing database scaling issues. 

Soar Technology, Ann Arbor MI 
  Student Intern 
  May - August 2006 
Learned the Soar programming language and contributed code to a large existing 
code-base for a military simulation project. 

Literacy*AmeriCorps, Seattle WA 
  Technology educator 
  2004 - 2005 
Managed the computer literacy program (Wired For Learning) at the Seattle 
Public Library, including: developing curriculum and course materials; teaching 
basic computer skills classes to low literacy level and non-native English 
speaking adults; and the management and training of approximately 25 
volunteers. 


ABOUT BEE:

  I think of biking a century as a fun Saturday activity and tied the age-group 
record of 178 miles in 12 hours at Ohio's Calvin's Challenge bicycle race in 
2006.  I've also been known to climb stairs competitively and hold a PR of 
15:38s at Chicago's annual Hustle Up the Hancock - that's 104.4 stairs per 
minute, baby! 

  I'm also a little quantification obsessed. Check out this talk I gave at the NYC Quantified Self meetup in August - http://quantifiedself.com/2010/10/bethany-soule-and-daniel-reeve/