Summary
Albert Barber is a software engineer in Berkeley with a decade of hands-on experience building customer-facing web apps for startups, currently helping Canvis simplify photo collaboration for design and construction teams. He blends a strong engineering foundation—an MS in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA with robotics and control systems experience—with practical full-stack skills, notably AngularJS frontends, S3-hosted SPAs, and automated Ruby deployment scripts. At Canvis he led UI work, built the company website from scratch, and implemented a PCI-compliant billing system that converted users to paying customers. His background includes designing robust, generalizable software for real-world complexity (automated carbon credit calculations) and leading a first-place UC Irvine team in the international Design-Build-Fly competition. Comfortable across solo and team contexts, he pairs methodical problem-solving—Kalman filters, FEA, rapid prototyping—with a product-minded focus on usability and reliability.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, GPA 3.63, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, GPA 3.63 at University of California, Los Angeles
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, GPA 3.74 (Engineering 3.84), Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, GPA 3.74 (Engineering 3.84) at University of California, Irvine