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Ashoka Finley

Software Engineer | Community Engagement Strategist
Brooklyn, NY
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github.com/shkfnly
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ashoka.finley@gmail.com
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+1 (310) 404 1586
A creative and dynamic systems thinker with diverse and innovative project experience related to resiliency and participatory governance. Skills include full stack software development and user experience design, along with process design and project maangement. My interests are related to issues of food, energy, urban design and mapping.
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Work Experience

ConsenSys

Software Engineer
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Sep 2016 - Current

Responsibilities include: Developing mobile applications based on the Ethereum network. Crafting organizational processes and norms. Exploring partnership opportunities. Supporting intra company developer training.

  • Built mobile architecture for uPort Identity application

Ecocity Builders

Platform Engineer / Civic Engagement Lead
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Jan 2012 - Current

Responsibilities included: Engineering a participatory citizen mapping platform using javascript and GIS. Curating curriculum and workshops to increase awareness and engagement around urban sustainability. Establishing and maintaining global partnerships to incubate the development of global sustainability standards for cities. Representing the company at UN forums and conferences to promote the work globally.

  • Developed urbinsight a participatory mapping platform to track resource use in local communities. Technologies Used: React, Redux, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Node.js
  • Established working relationships with institutions in multiple countries to scale out project implementation.
  • Created university level curriculum projects to teach a participatory research approach to analyzing urban sustainability
  • Presented at the World Urban Forum, SXSW, Rio+20 and other international conferences.

Energy Solidarity Cooperative

Worker-Owner
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Feb 2013 - Sep 2016

Responsibilities included: Maintaining awareness and engagement in the policy environment related to community scale renewable energy projects. Establishing cooperative structure to enable the involvement of multiple stakeholders. Developing a project pipeline and fundraising opportunities. Accessible curriculum around the themes of energy justice and community empowerment.

  • Established working partnership with Street Academy, in the Oakland Unified School District.
  • Directed Successful Crowd Funding Project in order to finance the legal fees associated with a Direct Public Offering.
  • Developed curriculum with local schools in both physics and the political economy of energy.
  • Engaged in nationwide discussion around fossil fuel divestment and community investment opportunities.

Urban Biofilter

Content Developer
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Jun 2014 - Dec 2014

Responsibilities included: Strategic partnerships to develop project implementation strategies and engagement opportunities. Built physical prototype structures to test project objectives. Conceptualize engagement tools for increased citizen participation. Create and design data visualizations and maps using web technology and GIS.

  • Developed an Urban Trails map application to highlight local art and organizations in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.
  • Built an sustainable urban urinal for the SF Urban Prototyping Festival.
  • Designed a community air quality mapping initiaive to monitor the impacts of port pollution in West Oakland, CA.
  • Created data visualizations and maps to be used in policy planning and advocacy work.

Education

University of California - Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts Global Political Economy
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Aug 2008 - May 2010

Broad systems based curriculum analysing and researching the postive and negative attributes of political economic trends globally. Research focused on the relationship between economic growth and debt based monetary systems.

Created a student think tank focused on global issues, using a private social network. In this capacity two courses were developed: Praxis of Global Citizenship, and Corporate Globalization.

Recurse Center

Software Engineering
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May 2015 - Aug 2015

A self-guided programmer retreat that allowed for deep dives and unstructured time. My work there focused on using tools such as react, making a tile server, using vector tiles, understanding protobuffers, playing with computer vision, and buffer overflows. Amazing experience based on deep inclusivity in the tech sector.

Projects

Urbinsight

Software Engineer
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Jan 2015 - Current

This application serves as a visual interface for a much larger information system called Urban Metabolism Information System or UMIS. This system was developed by researchers at the IMF, and is seen as a tool to understand how resource use is affected spatially, and across which use cases are the most impactful. This is a prototype for a possible larger implementation that could be used by urban planners, architects, and designers, to design more sustainable cities.

Gill Tract Farming Collaborative

Stakeholder
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Apr 2012 - Jan 2014

Community led initiative to establish and urban farming research project with the University of California - Berkeley. Involvement entailed community engagement, speaking, advocacy and teaching.

Skills

  • Software Engineering
  • Javascript: React, Redux, Node.js, Angular, Express.js, Koa.js
  • Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL
  • Other Languages: Python, Ruby
  • User Experience
  • Workshop Facilitation
  • Community Engagement
  • Ethereum: Solidity, Truffle