SEEKING WORK - REMOTE - India.
Creator of xtopdf, a PDF creation toolkit for Python (used by Packt Publishing, the Software Freedom Law Center, ESRI.nl and others.) xtopdf can create both business reports and ebooks, and currently has support for the following input formats: text, DBF, CSV, TSV/TDV, XLS, XLSX, DOCX, ODBC, SQLAlchemy, MongoDB, XML, Microsoft Access, SQLite, Berkeley DB, and standard input. xtopdf runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It includes both a library you can call from your apps, and command-line tools, GUI tools (in wxPython), and web-based tools (Flask, Bottle and CherryPy).
xtopdf links:
<a href="http://slid.es/vasudevram/xtopdf" >
<a href="http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/xtopdf" >
<a href="https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf" >
<a href="http://www.packtpub.com/article/Using_xtopdf" >
<a href="http://google.com/search?q=xtopdf" >
Independent developer for the last several years, with many years of experience in many tech areas. Contracted/consulted to multiple startups based in USA and India. Earlier worked for large well-known US and Indian software  companies.
Skills: Good - Python, C, Linux, UNIX, many open source technologies, databases, XML-RPC, PDF programming, file and data format conversion, data munging, command-line utility development. Some: Flask, MongoDB, Bottle, various others.
Worked on Ruby, Rails and Java some time earlier. Server lead / senior engineer for two commercial Rails-based dot-com products earlier, by US companies.
Databases worked on: Oracle, Sybase, Informix, MySQL, SQLite, HSQLDB, MS-Access, Postgres.
Worked on a best-selling retail banking product (earlier, in C with proprietary DB and UI libs). Was team leader for a database middleware product widely used in client projects by a top software company.
Relevant links:
Biz site: <a href="http://www.dancingbison.com" > (see Home, Products, Services, About pages there)
<a href="http://www.binpress.com/profile/vasudev-ram/3425" >
Posts about Python:
<a href="http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/python" >
Posts about xtopdf:
<a href="http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/xtopdf" >
Blog: <a href="http://jugad2.blogspot.com" >
Article by me about "Developing a Linux command-line utility" (in C) was published on IBM developerWorks and translated by IBM into Chinese and Japanese for those versions of their site. Some organizations have developed production command line tools using that article as a guide.
Contact info: <a href="http://dancingbison.com/contact.html" > (email, Skype).
Twitter: @vasudevram
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