lots of rapid prototyping and python community participation. familiarity with the library ecosystem and best practices. several years of production development

lead developer of an ETL system for integrating a hospital EMR with other clinical data and making it available for research. 20KLOC SQL.

Background in formal systems, set theory, relational algebra.

I write software to support research for a living. I spoke at PyData Silicon Valley in 2014 and the R User conference in 2012.

I helped grow the W3C staff from 3 of us at MIT to 70 across three continents over 15 years, assembling any number of working groups of engineers from companies all over the world along the way. I lead a small software development team at KU Medical Center. I value integrity and I know how to engender it, using the web for accountability. I know the cost of bad meetings and what it takes to make good ones.

responsible for system administration of about 20 servers at work; been using and administering linux for 20 years.

I try to read the source for most everything I use: the linux kernel, X Windows, web browsers, python interpreter. I wrote C code for a living in the early 90s. Before that I wrote a disk driver and printer driver for OS/9.

I'm having fun with rust; I maintain a sqlite3 API.

I've been working in the open web community since the original 1991 announcement. I'm best at rapid prototyping with python and SQL, but I like javascript, scala, rust, go etc. too. And I like using data in documents; e.g. microformats.

I'm passionate about software quality. My first manager, Martin Streicher, taught me that code, documentation, and testing merit equal resources. "No more untested, undocumented code" was my 2006 new year's resolution.

Bloch's "Effective Java" is a great summary of the best practices I've picked up over the years.

I am the lead software engineer in the Informatics Division at the University of Kansas Medical Center. I set up mercurial and trac for version control , issue tracking, requirements and use case development, documentation practices, and milestone management practices.

Researching logic and formal systems, e.g. in the Decentralized Information Group at MIT (http://dig.csail.mit.edu/) since getting my B.S. in C.S. at U.T. Austin. Published in AAAI etc.

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Dan C.

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Technical skills