Free Software Contributions
- Contributed to:
- GNU Emacs, Clojure, Ruby, Rails, TIC-80, Pleroma, RubyGems, Clojars, Microscheme, Hpricot, Magit, and more
- Took over Maintenance of:
- Fennel, Logplex, Swank Clojure, Clojure Mode, and package.el
- Created:
- Leiningen, Emacs Starter Kit, Atreus, Grenchman, Slamhound, Bus Scheme, and several games.
Work Experience
CircleCI December 2016 - present
- Team Lead on the Billing team responsible for tracking usage and payment 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 Bahasa (Indonesian/Malaysian). Beginner-level Thai and beginner-level Mandarin.
Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude.
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