Ethan W. Rietz

Bachelor of Science: Computer Science (GPA: 4.0)

Ph.D. Student: Physical Chemistry and Scientific Computing (GPA: 3.76)

Bachelor of Science: Biochemistry (GPA: 3.51)

Software Engineer

• Developed APIs for software used internally by employees, APIs for a web application provided to vendors and third party logistic warehouse partners, and an external API used directly by vendors.
• Integrated Logicbroker, a drop ship solution, into the existing Shopify eCommerce platform. The integration included automated product and inventory feeds, order creation, shipment handling, and invoice processing for 100+ vendors with zero human interaction.
• Developed APIs for a SaaS application provided to vendors to process online returns at their own facilities.
• Worked on a geographical display engine which obtains ship costs and calculates profit margins for the major US metros.

Tech Stack: Node.js, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Azure

Werner Enterprises Apr 2021 - Nov 2022

Software Intern (Oct 2021 - Nov 2022)

• Worked on a real-time data sync application between legacy Werner applications and the Mastery Logistics Systems Mastermind TMS. Worked quite extensively with Azure Service Buses.
• Developed mobile applications using the Ionic framework and C#/.NET on the back end.
• Wrote extensive unit and integration test suites using MSTest.

Tech Stack: C#, TypeScript/Angular, Azure, SQL Server, Entity Framework

Software QA Intern (Apr 2021 - Oct 2021)

• Tested APIs, UIs, and mobile devices using a variety of testing methods.

Tech Stack: Postman, Perfecto, AS400, Db2, Azure Cosmos DB, Python, JavaScript

Agilent Technologies 2017 - 2019

Manufacturing Associate

Manufactured liquid consumable products (gels, buffers, DNA/RNA ladders and markers) for Agilent’s capillary electrophoresis instruments in an aseptic environment.

Limnology Laboratory 2014 - 2015

Chemistry Technician

Worked in a laboratory certified by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to analyze water nutrients for the Iowa Lakes Survey Monitoring Program.

Indiana University 2019 - 2020

Research with Professor Srinivasan Iyengar

• Worked on high performance Linux computing clusters to study non-classical carbocation systems computationally.
• Used Ab initio molecular dynamics, density functional theory, and vibrational spectroscopy methods to understand energy redistribution in anomalous carbocations and hydrogen bonded systems.

Iowa State University 2016

Research with Professor Levi Stanley

• Studied the catalytic activity of metal-organic framework compounds and asked if the steric and electronic properties of MOFs are tunable upon functionalization of the linker units