Free Software Contributions
- Contributed to:
- GNU Emacs, Clojure, Ruby, Rubinius, JRuby, Rails, Pleroma, RubyGems, Rack, Sonic Pi, Microscheme, Hpricot, Mirah, TIC-80, Magit, and more
- Took over Maintenance of:
- Fennel, Logplex, Swank Clojure, Clojure Mode, Clojars, package.el, and Gitjour
- Created:
- Leiningen, Emacs Starter Kit, Atreus, Bussard, EXO_encounter 667, Grenchman, Slamhound, Syme, Bus Scheme, and more
Work Experience
CircleCI December 2016 - present
- Staff Engineer
- Lead on the Billing team responsible for tracking usage of all customers.
- Mentored new hires including training several people with no Clojure experience to the point where they could contribute productively to a Clojure codebase.
Atreus Keyboards December 2014 - January 2020
- Created and documented a design for a small keyboard to be constructed from readily-available DIY parts.
- Wrote three USB keyboard firmwares from scratch for the ATMega32u4 chip.
- Started and ran a small business selling and supporting kits and keyboards to a worldwide customer base.
Heroku October 2011 - December 2014
- Maintained the log pipeline infrastructure in Erlang for routing app output.
- Handled the adapter for building Clojure applications on the Heroku platform.
- Maintained git-based deployment pipeline for applications running on Heroku.
Sonian April 2009 - September 2011
- Helped design and implement a document parsing, indexing, and archival pipeline in Clojure which functioned at petabyte level.
- Developed Leiningen project automation tool originally for our in-house needs, which got turned into a public project with many thousands of users and hundreds of contributors.
Other
Fully remote since 2009.
Voraciously self-taught.
Native English speaker, conversant in Indonesian/Malaysian. Beginner-level Thai.
Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude.
Will not relocate to San Francisco.
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