Lincoln Swaine-Moore

Experience

Full stack; building and maintaining web platform and data ingestion for worldwide fleet of air quality monitors.
Very small team; accordingly varied responsibilities across frontend, backend, infrastructure (esp. Postgres, Redis, Docker), public API, and C++ firmware (primarily reviewing/writing tests).
Special emphasis on mapping and data visualization features; introduced Vite/React.

Full stack; maintaining swingleft.org and votefwd.org and building new tools (example project: Blueprint—winner of Fast Company Innovation by Design Award) for mobilizing grassroot volunteers to drive voter turnout.
Longest tenured (and for a time only) full-time engineer; deployment/DNS/database management responsibilities.
All manner of technical support for organizing, email, donation teams: analytics, internal tooling, and general consultation.

Backend team at political tech startup; maintained and improved systems for large-scale data collection and management (primarily from state and local government websites); shared deployment and on-call duties.

Investigated effects of terrain on state boundaries, using ArcGIS to analyze historical and geographical data; performed technical tasks for collaborations with other professors.

Performed web scraping tasks in order to track ISIS activity, working for two PhD students in the political science department.

Technical coursework including: Data Mining and Machine Learning, Computer Networks, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computer Graphics; other coursework including: The Law and Technology of Cyber Conflict, Election Rules and Campaign Strategy, Constitutional Law, Classics of Political Journalism
Senior project: “Text Mining to Find Interactions between Political Contributions and Political Speech” (advised by Dragomir Radev)