SEEKING WORK (remote or DFW, TX area only)
I just ended 2 years with media search engine start up whose stack was based on Django, Python, and Apache Solr. I spent most of my time creating the backend API to communicate with Youtube, Hulu, Itunes, and other sites. I first created it in python (Tornado), but the latency was apparently too high so I rewrote it in Go.
I also wore a devops hat and wrote bash scripts to provision vagrant VMs and setup our continuous deployment/integration with Jenkins CI. All this being integrated with hipchat of course. All of our code was tested, and can bet I took advantage of REST (HATEOAS namely made problems simpler).
I also learned to have a bit more pragmatism and profile my code, instead of polishing every piece as if it were a diamond ;)
Recently I'm loving Haskell the most, but I've always had a soft spot for schemes and lisps. Clojure is something I'm eventually going to be hacking on.
Ideally I'd like something to do with functional programming, but I still enjoy doing web development and using python.
In the past I have written in:
HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, Perl, C (small amounts), C++ (even less), Visual Basic, C#, Java, Ruby, Python, Cython, Go, Racket, Chicken Scheme, Nimrod, Lisp, Racket, Haskell, and Elm.
Github: <a href="https://github.com/codygman/" > (sadly most stuff is private and can't be open sourced yet)
Email: REDACTED_EMAIL
Blog: <a href="http://codygman.github.io" >
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)