San Francisco, CA

Experience

Technical Architect, AKQA, South San Francisco, CA 2009 - to present
Technologies Used: Ruby, Rails, Solaris, Ubuntu, MySQL, MogileFS, Passenger, Akamai, Ferret, Solr, Zeus, HAProxy, BackgrounDRb

  • Software and Infrastructure Architect for the Rails team.
  • Developed High Availability and Capacity infrastructures for Fortune 100 clients such as Visa and Target.
  • Designed infrastructure proposals for prospective client projects.
  • Personally managed 40+ Solaris servers.
  • Mentored junior Rails engineers.
  • Prototyped systems and features.

Consultant, Orange Labs, South San Francisco, CA 2009
Technologies Used: Ruby, Rails, Facebook API, FBML, FBJS, FQL

  • Built a Facebook Application for connecting users to businesses.

Consultant, Clerkdogs, San Francisco, CA 2009
Technologies Used: Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS.

  • Integrated the site with the Netflix API using OAuth.
  • Applied a new skin site wide. i.e. rebuilt the HTML and CSS from scratch.

Senior Software Engineer, Potrero Media, San Francisco, CA 2007-2008
Technologies Used: Ruby, Rails, PHP, MySQL with Replication, Javascript, Prototype, Linux, Capistrano and Webistrano, Nagios, Apache, Mongrel, Subversion.

  • Lead Migration of databases and websites to a high availability cluster.
  • Architected Web Services and Applications in Ruby on Rails and PHP.
  • Made use of Test Driven Development and Agile Methodologies.
  • Designed administration tools and monitoring for over 200 websites and services.

Software Engineer, Podshow, San Francisco, CA, 2006-2007
Technologies Used: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Linux, MySQL with replication

  • Team lead for site internationalization upgrade.
  • Team lead to scale user collection system.
  • Developed social networking features for a podcasting website.
  • Designed MVC architecture.

Education

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH - BS Computer Science, 2002

Skills

Ruby, Rails, MySQL with replication, Zeus, Memcahed, MogileFS, JavaScript, jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, AJAX, JSON, Nagios, Rake, Capistrano, Webistrano, BackgrounDRb, trac, Git, Subversion, CVS, Apache, Phusion Passenger, Mongrel, Linux, Solaris, vim, bash, PHP, OpenGL, C/C++, Objective-C, Cocoa, OS X

Outside of Work

  • 2009 USA XC Mountain Biking National Champion, Cat 1
  • ViMate: Founder of an open-source vi plugin for TextMate using Objective-C and Cocoa.
  • Track Fights: Founder of an eight week series of bike races designed to improve cyclocross in the bay area.
  • Cycling: Currently training with a cycling coach to try to get paid to ride bicycles.