SEEKING WORK - Remote or Austin, TX.
I work in both building things and breaking things. I specialize in Ruby and JavaScript, but my side projects include:
* Reverse engineering the Vine API via mitmproxy and pulling the AWS secret key out of the iOS app via gdb and a little C: <a href="http://www.gironda.org/2013/03/03/digging-in-the-vineyard-part-2.html‎" >http://www.gironda.org/2013/03/03/digging-in-the-vineyard-pa...</a>
* Exploring an issue in a Rails application all the way from JavaScript to debugging the Linux kernel over a serial port: <a href="http://www.gironda.org/2013/04/26/from-asset-precompilation-to-system-calls.html" >http://www.gironda.org/2013/04/26/from-asset-precompilation-...</a>
Recent production work involved instrumenting a Rails app to provide metrics to statsd, performing MySQL optimization, standing up a Jenkins CI instance using Chef, and beating a test suite back into shape.
You can find some of my code on my GitHub profile (<a href="https://github.com/gabrielg" >https://github.com/gabrielg</a>), and more of my writing as well as a resume on my website at <a href="http://www.gironda.org/" >http://www.gironda.org/</a>. I'd love to hear from you — email REDACTED_EMAIL if you think we can work together.
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