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Location: India
Remote possible: Yes. Prefer remote.
Profile: <a href=" Rating: 4.8/5.0. See reviews there.
Creator of xtopdf, PDF generation toolkit for Python. Freelance developer, consultant and trainer for many years. Worked with many startups. Employee at a few large and small US &amp; Indian companies earlier.
Skills: Python, C, SQL and database design, Unix &amp; Linux, shell, awk, sed, etc., web dev (back end), REST, XML-RPC, PDF generation (created a product for it - xtopdf) &amp; PDF text extraction, command-line utility dev (wrote IBM dW article on creating Linux CLI utilities in C), Flask, SQLAlchemy, software design, testing. Some Ruby, Rails and Java earlier too, not current.
Was team leader of a successful Windows C database middleware product; did a lot of Unix C work too, e.g. managing (hands-on) year-long project for migration / conversion of NEC mainframe data and programs to Unix C and shell scripts and Sybase for examination processing department of a leading university.
Overview of xtopdf (my PDF toolkit for Python): <a href="
xtopdf creates business reports &amp; simple PDF ebooks. Supports 20+ input formats. Works on CLI, desktop and Web UIs, on Linux, MacOS and Windows. Some well-known orgs in US, UK, NL use it.