Technollupagus
San Francisco Bay Area
Technollupagus
San Francisco Bay Area
Goal: help people cooperate at a large scale.
Experience as a developer at very highly trafficked sites and one-room startups. Cares deeply about user experience.
Buzzwords you might be looking for: data visualization, geographic information systems, internationalization, social software, social networking services, calendaring software, object-oriented programming, functional programming, PHP, Perl, Java, Python, JavaScript, XSLT, XML, CSS, HTTP, SMTP, PostScript, Smarty, Apache, Apache modules, mod_perl, cvs, Subversion (svn), Perforce, writing, editing
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
August 2008 — April 2009 (9 months)
Flickr is almost certainly the best kitten delivery mechanism in the world.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
December 2006 — August 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Engineer on Upcoming.org. The site allows users to discover, coordinate, and publicize local events via their social network.
(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)
September 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 2 months)
Internationalization engineer for Google Checkout, a online payments service, also a lot of general frontend work.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
April 2005 — July 2005 (4 months)
Enfold Systems sells consulting and enterprise tools for Plone, an open source Python-based CMS. I left this company amicably when I got a job offer from Google.
(Self-Employed; Insurance industry)
May 2002 — November 2004 (2 years 7 months)
Consulted at various Vancouver firms, particularly Vision2Hire, a maker of human resources software delivered over the web.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 4 months)
ActiveState creates programming tools for scripting languages such as Perl, Python and PHP. I started in web development, and later moved into Language Technologies (Programmer's Package Manager Server, PureMessage SMTP filters)
(Online Media industry)
July 1997 — November 1999 (2 years 5 months)
At Stylus, I designed and programmed web applications for some of Canada's most successful corporations.
2000
internet, social networks, REST, mapreduce, functional programming, refactoring, user interfaces, history, art, hacking, perl, python, erlang, haskell, democracy, anarchy, development process, anarchy and the development process
Yahoo Hack Day winner, "Best Use of Data", Q3 2007