Resume
Currently not looking for new opportunities, but feel free to peruse my work and project history if you want.
Contact Info
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Email:
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Work Experience
Tidelift (acquired by Sonar)
Prinicipal Software Engineer
- Consolidate disparate documentation sources into single easy-to-edit internal site
- Streamline and expand data research team capabilities and process
- Perform data research and data science activities using business intelligence tools
- Improve engineering and product processes, focusing on more iterative development and faster feedback with less code churn
Senior Staff Software Engineer
- Create on-call documentation and ops runbooks, enabling all engineers to be effective when on call
- Run developer book clubs focusing on improving engineer technical, collaboration, and learning skills
- Manage migration of frontend application from Vue 2 to Vue 3
- Manage and mentor up to three employees to help further their careers
- Help build interviewing process for new engineers
Senior Software Engineer
- Develop frontend, backend, command line, and API applications
- Write blog posts on open source technology issues
Sonian (acquired by Barracuda)
Frontend Team Lead
- Write frontend applications for email archive access in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/React, and write backends in Clojure
- Assist in managing application deploys using Chef
Space Telescope Science Institute
Software Developer
- Deploy multi-node CDN to handle 100x traffic over two days coming from Google Doodle for Hubble’s 20th Anniversary.
- Build high-availability content-focused sites in PHP and Ruby on Rails to deliver news about the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope
- Construct interactive Web elements in Adobe Flash and Flex
- Maintain and upgrade internal servers using Puppet and custom Debian/RPM packaging
- Publish multiple Rubygems, including ones that received millions of downloads
Villa Julie College (renamed to Stevenson University)
Assistant Webmaster
- Build Online Application for Admissions in Perl and MySQL that reduced application processing time by Admissions department staff from 10 minutes to 45 seconds
- Produce early streaming video series on student life using RealPlayer to deliver videos for modem and Cable/DSL users
- Manage Blackboard installation used for early distance learning classes
Notable Projects
The Industrious Rabbit
https://theindustriousrabbit.com/
Video series which explores technology-related topics, right now focused on retro computing and software development. I do everything on the videos – writing, 2d & 3d animation, software development, and audio, and they’re done entirely with open source art tools like Krita and Kdenlive. I use Python a lot to build automations in Blender, streamline workflows in Krita, and generate vector artwork in Inkscape.ComicPress
Primary developer on the ComicPress webcomic publishing theme for WordPress. I joined the project in 2007 and built a WordPress plugin called ComicPress Manager to assist with file uploading, naming, and processing. ComicPress was once the way that webcomics were posted on the Internet.Inkscape
https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/0.46#Paint_Bucket_tool
I wrote the Paint Bucket tool, which uses a hack to work – it flood fills a rendered copy of the screen, then autotraces the flood fill. I also added numerous performance optimizations to the program in the pre 1.0 days.rack-livereload
https://rubygems.org/gems/rack-livereload
Rubygem to provide LiveReload support for Rack apps like Rails. Before I turned over support to another maintainer, the project had been downloaded millions of times.jasmine-headless-webkit
https://rubygems.org/gems/jasmine-headless-webkit
Rubygem to provide a JavaScript testing environnment for the Jasmine BDD framework. This was pre-NodeJS really being a thing, so it was kind of a big deal.Education
Villa Julie College — May 2001
BS in Computer Information Systems, Minor in Graphic Design
Technologies
Here you go, bots.- Assembler
- AWS Athena
- AWS EKS
- Blender
- C
- C++
- Chef
- Clojure
- Docker
- Flash
- Golang
- Google Cloud Service
- Hugo
- Inkscape
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- Kdenlive
- Krita
- Linux
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Perl
- PHP
- PostgreSQL
- Puppet
- Python
- React
- Ruby
- Ruby on Rails
- Solaris
- TypeScript
- Vue