Experience

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  The Gnar Company, Inc.

  • Software Engineer

    • Dec 2021 - Present

    Time to make the sooooooftware

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  Gearflow.com

  • Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • Lead Software Engineer

    • Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Early stage startup dealing in heavy equipment parts, based in Elixir and Phoenix. First full time engineering hire, and helped grow the team to five. Designed and implemented a high volume catalog consisting of a front end ETL system using Phoenix and Elasticsearch, and a back end data pipeline built on Postgres, Ecto and Broadway, with declarative, extensible workflows based on finite state machines. Self-directed and fully remote.

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  American Library Association

  • Chicago, IL

  • Program Officer (2009-2015), Director (2015-2019) for Data Applications

    • Jun 2009 - Nov 2019
    • Chicago, IL

    Ruby engineer, web architect, Unix admin, general technologist. Designer and developer of Apply, a Rails-based platform for grant application, review and administration with over 8,000 registered users, and its attending software packages. Systems admin for Apply and ProgrammingLibrarian.org, a web publication for cultural programming in libraries. Go librarians!

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  University of Chicago Press

  • Chicago, IL

  • Production Controller, Astronomy Journals Group

    • Oct 2005 - Dec 2008
    • Chicago, IL

    An exploratory detour from computer work. Managed graphics and production schedule for one of three monthly issues of the Astrophysical Journal, the "the foremost research journal in the world devoted to recent developments, discoveries, and theories in astronomy and astrophysics."​ (quoth http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/)

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  University of Chicago

  • Chicago, IL

  • Unix System Administrator

    • Oct 1998 - Aug 2001
    • Chicago, IL

    In three acts: Biological Sciences Division Information Services (10/98-7/99); James Franck Institute/MRSEC; (7/99-7/00) and the Department of Psychology (10/00-8/01). Mainly Solaris, Linux and IRIX, in a mix of commodity and scientific computing. Continued in a part-time capacity with the Social Sciences Computing Services (2002-03) as time allowed while attending college.

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  MCSNet, MegsInet

  • Chicago, IL

  • ISP Technical Support

    • Mar 1996 - Oct 1998
    • Chicago, IL

    Phone support for Chicago-based internet providers, back when that was a thing. Later work included maintenance of FreeBSD-based infrastructure, and managing a six person phone support department.