David Litwak Resume
David Litwak Resume
Skills: AutoCAD design, MATLAB, C, C++, C#, ASP.NET, Java, Scheme, Python, SQL(MySQL & SQLite), PHP, JavaScript,
JQuery/JQueryUI, Ruby on Rails, AJAX, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, French intermediate/advanced, Spanish, basic.
Honors:
Rose Hills Foundation for Science and Engineering Scholarship: awarded to UC Berkeley Junior and Senior math and
science students from Southern California who attained at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA (only 117 students out of the 2,741 in
the Cal Engineering School received this honor).
Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering Honor Society.
Work Experience:
Criteo: Integration and Support Engineer, Palo Alto, CA October 2010-Present
o Helped clients integrate online advertising campaigns using Javascript and SQL.
o Wrote software to create PDF’s on the fly using the C# iTextSharp library and ASP.NET.
o Created custom javascript tags using Charles Web Debugging Proxy and the YUI minimizer.
Skype: Web Project Manager and Analyst, Tallinn, Estonia Summer 2009
o Managed email marketing campaigns and web advertisements for the Skype.com site.
o Analyzed the web conversion statistics of online advertisements using Omniture software.
Northrop Grumman Space Technology: Robotics Intern Summer 2006
o Wrote networking code and designed hardware using Solidworks CAD for the Flying Formation Test
Bed (FFTB) IRAD.
Northrop Grumman Space Technology: Robotics Intern Summer 2005
o Conducted tests for the Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) of NASA’s Autonomous Walking
Inspection and Maintenance Robot (AWIMR) designed to repair space shuttles.
Additional Experience:
LitwakRecommends.com: Personal travel blog programmed in Ruby on Rails. Experience using MVC architecture, AJAX,
Javascript JQuery libraries, and dealing with CSS cross-browser compatibility issues. Gained experience using jRuby, and
NoSQL database technologies using the Neo4j Graph Database.
Concordia Language Villages: 3 summers at Lac Du Bois French Immersion Language Camp (June 2000, June 2001), 1
summer at Lac Du Bois French Immersion High School Credit Language Program (June 2002).
Founder and President of UC Berkeley RoboCup Competition Team; raised funds from departments and private investors
to finance RoboCup Team in the small-size soccer division at UC Berkeley; organized mechanical engineering, electrical
engineering and artificial intelligence sub-teams.
Co-Founder, ST@B, Startups @ Berkeley: an organization that brings together entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to
network.
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Founder, FIRST Robotics Competition Team: recruited students, obtained NASA grant, organized team and mentors for
FIRST Robotics Competition, where students design and build robot in six weeks, then compete in that year’s game; Santa
Monica High School, 2002 – 2006.
Alpha Tau Omega Social Fraternity, Gamma Iota Chapter: Membership Recruitment Chair/Founding Father.
Outward Bound, Patagonia Region of Argentina & Chile: completed Patagonia Mountaineering Course: developed advanced
mountaineering techniques, leadership skills, rock climbing, traveling over glaciers (including crevasse rescue techniques),
Leave No Trace minimum-impact camping, solo, cross-cultural service project, environmental study; December 2007 –
January 2008.