Performance & Scalability
San Francisco Bay Area
Performance & Scalability
San Francisco Bay Area
I am a generalist programmer, not a specialist. I am most interested in internationalization/localization (i18n/l10n), high traffic architectures, developer tools, profiling & performance, and user experience design.
My long-term goal is to "save the web": to build a network of independent internet archives.
Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, TCL, Java
FreeBSD and Linux systems administration
server farm design and maintenance
13 years graphic design
black-belt Javascript, CSS & HTML.
(Internet industry)
June 2008 — Present (3 months)
I paint on the go-faster stripes.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Bugfixer for the stuff the users touch.
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
April 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 3 months)
Developer for user-facing sites and internal tools for Yahoo Canada and Latin America: Movies, Local, Lifestyles, TV. Admin for vertical search platform for various properties.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 2003 — April 2005 (2 years 1 month)
Programmer, systems architect, administrator for a pay-per-click search engine for Latin America. We scaled the architecture to handle a ten-fold increase in traffic and added support for three languages, four currencies and methods of payment peculiar to each country. Acquired by Yahoo, Inc in April 2005.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; VIGN; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
HN: aristus