Thomas Lisankie

• Engaging in the meticulous process of assessing code samples to ensure they meet high standards of accuracy, efficiency, and readability. This ensures a high quality dataset.
• Actively writing diverse and challenging code samples across various programming languages and domains to create high quality training data.

• Spearheaded the technical development of Sane's web app as the sole software engineer in a dynamic startup environment.
• Led a significant rewrite of both the backend and frontend, transitioning the product from an alpha release focusing solely on the editor to a more comprehensive and social platform with a discovery feed.
• Architected and implemented a robust backend using a GraphQL API in Go, with EdgeDB and Postgres databases ensuring efficient data management.
• Developed the frontend by skillfully integrating Qwik and React frameworks, enhancing user interface and experience.
• Deployed the application using a CI/CD pipeline on AWS ECS, leveraging Docker containers for efficient, scalable, and reliable deployment processes.
• Played a pivotal role in product development, contributing innovative ideas that shaped the evolution of the product.
• Successfully managed the full software development lifecycle, from conception to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of key features.

Nifty Island is a Minecraft-esque game that allows players to mold and truly own their environment and make use of abilities opened to them by Web3. Players can also generate and bring in NFTs that they own.

• Developed content moderation system for prevention and detection of spam NFTs.
• Assisted in development of multi-chain and many-wallet support (Solana and Polygon).
• Developed React components in TypeScript for the Nifty Island Marketplace.
• Contributed to various fixes for the Marketplace.

• Major contributor to various full-stack contracts (Monadical is a consultancy) using Python, Django, TypeScript, React, Node.js, and AWS services.
• Designed and developed an RPC caching service (written with Node.js) for transactions on the Solana blockchain.
• Developed various frontend Solana projects using React and TypeScript.

The Knowledge Futures Group is aiming to find out about connections between different grant proposals. To do this, cleaning and analyzing this data is necessary.

• Worked with the team at OpenTechStrategies to use their API for reading data on grants proposals and provided feedback on how the API could be made better.
• Analyzed and cleaned data for the grants proposals, looking for information that could be used for finding traditional author identifiers, i.e., ORCID.

• Developed a custom browser extension (specifically for Firefox) for trading and managing assets on the Deribit cryptocurrency exchange.
• Received a grant through the Roam Grants program to build out Roaman Pub - a publishing platform for Roam Research.
• Developed a dashboard service for managing advertisement leads, allowing the user to deploy leads to advertising partners.

JobTarget is focused around job advertisement management.

• Wrote a JavaScript client library for use with the company's Messaging API. The Messaging API is part of an effort to aggregate more job seeker data in order to find better placement for job advertisements.
• Built a pipeline in Node.js for connecting and allowing conversation with a Dialogflow chatbot with the company's Messaging API. The chatbot project presented job seekers with a conversational interface that they could use to ask questions about open positions without looking through individual postings.
• Developed a webhook on AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway for handling incoming text messages.

• Assisted in teaching two courses of 40 students that cover basic programming concepts, Python, JavaScript, data visualization, data analysis, SQL, MongoDB, R, Hadoop, Tableau, and machine learning concepts and tools.