I am a Sr. Software engineer and AI researcher who spends most of his time using machine learning and large language models. My specialty is helping developers and companies leverage artificial intelligence for maximum results with minimum input!

Lead Researcher

I was part of the Ruby team that was replaced when the company decidided Ruby on Rails wouldn't handle the scaling it needed to, mostly due to our distributed architecture and ruby being a slow, single threaded, blocking language/runtime.

Sr. Ruby Developer

I worked on the original youtube comment system. We essentially tok phpforum code and modified it to work with the youtube backend systems which were all php and perl at the time.

I stayed at youtube as a developer for almost 2 years and then I left for a different contract.

Software Developer

In the original app there wasn't much of an actual service. We spent our time writing PHP and JavaScript building as many prototypes as we could do connect old banking systems to our network. I worked on the web team, or the "glue" team as we were called.

Developer

I have been coding in JavaScript since 1997. I have seen all the technology come and go and change. I can also write TypeScript. My expertise (that you wont find elsewhere) is functional JavaScript you can actually read!

NextJS is my go to for anything that needs routes and server side rendering or database access. Let me show you how to organize your apps so they are readable and performant.

I have been working with React since it was known as fax.js - and I have been a thought leader in the industry curating libraries and developer habits that make for great software development

Chat servers, bots, backends, database managers.... Node can help you with all of that, and I can as well, having spent enough yeas writing JavaScript that my experience could now vote......

My god... 20 years. I was playing Warcraft and throwing down <blink> tags from a cyber-cafe.......

When I am not coding my primary language, it is usually because I am writing HTML/CSS.

Postgres is my favorite ACID compliant RDBMS. I have been using SQL for many, many years now, and I still prefer relational data to schemaless databases. I LOVE MONGODB (but the two do different jobs)

I have been integrating Stripe since they started doing business. I was in the beta. I have done subscriptions, one offs, marketplaces, and stores.

Been using git forever. I can show you how to use less commands, and use git in a much more efficient way, with clean trees all the way to the horizon. Or I can help you get 'unfucked' when something goes horribly wrong. Reflow is a wonderful thing!

In 2008 I swapped my C# and .Net IDE and Windows box for a Mac and Ruby. Up until a year or two ago 90% of the software I wrote was in Ruby, spanning from sorting 1000s of atmospheric, seismic, solar, and wildlife reporting data from stations around the world to solar panel efficiency algorithms to countless e-commerce websites.

Rails used to be my favorite way to spin up a back end for a postgres database or json api. I have been working with it since early 2008/late 2007. I can build JSON api's and restful backends with great speed using this tool.

Eventually sites grow beyond heroku, and usually, they grow into AWS serviced based platforms. I can help you with that!

Relational databases like MySQL and Postgresql where my bread and butter for many years. I think relationally quite easily.

I have built several pieces of software that either were a blockchain, or involved a blockchain, including forking Bitcoin and Peercoin and building services and abstractions for RPC and clients.

I wrote jQuery for years and years until React came along. Now I never use it, but I still know how to do just about anything in it.

I can spin up linux or bsd servers from scratch, handle security setup, build services, set up things like database and web servers, handle DNS, script these things, and troubleshoop issues. When I am not on my Mac, I am on Linux.

I understand how search engines and their algorithms work, and I know how to use javascript, and ruby, and html to make the best uses of onpage optimization. I also know quite a bit about off page optimization.

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