Kirt Fitzpatrick
San Francisco, CA
Experience
Consultant, AKQA, South San Francisco, CA 2009 - to present
- Built FlyAlaska4less.com
- Launched a small project for the visabusinessnetwork
- Currently working on a top secret project that will launch next year. Shh..
Consultant, Orange Labs, South San Francisco, CA 2009
- Built a Facebook Application for connecting users to businesses.
Consultant, Clerkdogs, San Francisco, CA 2009
- 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
- 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 whenever possible.
- Designed administration tools and monitoring for over 200 websites and services.
Software Engineer, Podshow, San Francisco, CA, 2006-2007
- 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, 2002Skills
Ruby, Rails, PHP, MySQL, Replication, JavaScript, Prototype, Scriptaculous, jQuery, HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, AJAX, JSON, Nagios, Rake, Capistrano, Webistrano, trac, Subversion, CVS, Apache, mod_rails, Mongrel, Linux, vim, bash, OpenGL, C/C++, Objective-C, Cocoa, OS XOutside of Work
- 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.