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Web Developer

I have been a full-time web developer since 2007, and am seeking a position developing rich web applications with open source technologies.

Maintenance and enhancement of a set of large scale, high availability Rails applications
Test-driven development and regression testing with Rspec, Selenium, Capybara
Front-end and UI/UX development with HTML5, SASS, jQuery & jQuery UI, AJAX
Developed and deployed an integrated Ruby on Rails solution for A/B testing

Built, maintained and re-platformed database-driven Django web applications
Collaborated with clients, as well as Front-end developers and User Experience architects to produce powerful, usable sites
Ensured quality by versioning with Git (sometimes Subversion)
Unit-testing in Django
Thorough use of third-party packages, such as Fabric, Django-CMS, Haystack and others
Maintained various Linux daemons, including Apache2, Nginx, Solr, and PostgreSQL
Built a CRUD API for theultimateholidaysite.com, which allows an iPhone client to browse and manage data within the associated iOS app

I maintain a portfolio of 30 sites, including centerforinquiry.net and csicop.org. I build and rebuild sites, add features, and re-organize to promote usability. I leverage caching under high-traffic conditions.
I oversee two employees, serve as the primary technical contact for ~100 people throughout the organization, and regularly advise the management committee.
I maintain and install Linux servers, using BASH scripting for fully-automated redundant backups.
I configure Apache 2 and MySQL servers at the command line on Linux and BSD systems.
I configure DNS, MX records, site deployments and migrations.
I automate maintenance tasks on a CMS database whose schema is not meant to be user serviceable, using a combination of brute force and bespoke python/MySQLdb/BeautifulSoup scripts.
I re-deployed the static HTML site csicop.org in ExpressionEngine. Every page on the site validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional as of this writing. The Compass SASS compiler is used for CSS. This and most larger sites are using jQuery.
I use Git and previously, Subversion for source control

User-driven code-sharing site with granular caching, syndication, admin interface, context processors and signaling framework provided by Django. Persisted with MySQL, hosted on an Ubuntu VPS.
Features revision control, support for syntax highlighting in 105 languages and multiple themes. Includes my homebrew CAPTCHA alternative, automated with python's lxml.etree and the flickr API.
AJAX via jQuery, Xapian search via Haystack, syntax highlighting via Pygments.

B.A. in English, with specializations in Human Computer Interaction and Political Science