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+# Hire Me
+
+I'm always interested in hearing from people and organizations that I can help,
+whether that means coming in for a few days to talk about end-to-end testing or
+joining your organization full-time to help turn an idea into reality.
+
+I live in and around Toronto, ON. I am more than happy to work remotely, and I
+can probably help your organization learn to integrate remote work if it doesn't
+already know how.
+
+You can see more about me as a person on
+[HireMyFriend](https://hiremyfriend.io/profiles/90b8caa5) or
+[LinkedIn](https://ca.linkedin.com/in/ojacobson/). You can also get a sense of
+the code I write by looking at this blog, as well as my
+[Bitbucket](https://bitbucket.org/ojacobson) or
+[Github](https://github.com/ojacobson/) sites: I recommend starting with
+[Refreshbooks](https://github.com/ojacobson/refreshbooks) or
+[Sparkplug](https://github.com/ojacobson/sparkplug).
+
+## For Fun
+
+I regularly revisit problems from old jobs, interesting ideas from the internet,
+and whatever else catches my fancy as a way to build up skills with specific
+technologies. Right now, I'm tinkering with [AngularJS](http://angularjs.org)
+and [Jersey 2](https://jersey.java.net) as a way of building lightweight,
+highly-responsive web front ends. Ask me about it and I'll be more than happy to
+talk your ear off. I've also run similar projects to explore Node, Django,
+Flask, Rails, and other platforms for web development, as well as numerous tools
+and frameworks for other platforms.
+
+I also mentor people new to programming, teaching them how to craft working
+systems. This is less about teaching people to write code and more about
+teaching them why we care about source control, how to think about
+configuration, how to and why to automate testing, and how to think about
+software systems and data flow at a higher level. I strongly believe that
+software development needs a formal apprenticeship program, and mentoring has
+done a lot to validate that belief.
+
+## FreshBooks (2009-2014)
+
+During the five years I was with the company, it grew from a 20-person one-room
+organization to a healthy, growing two-hundred-person technology company. As an
+early employee, I had my hand in many, many projects and helped the development
+team absorb the massive cultural changes that come with growth, while also
+building a SaaS product that let others realize their dreams. Some highlights:
+
+* As the lead [MySQL](http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else) database
+  administrator-slash-developer, I worked with the entire development team to
+  balance concerns about reliability and availability with ensuring new ideas
+  and incremental improvements could be executed without massive bureaucracy
+  and at low risk. This extended into diverse parts of the company: alongside
+  the operations team, I handled capacity planning, reliability, outage
+  planning, and performance monitoring, while with the development team, I
+  was responsible for designing processes and deploying tools to ease testing
+  of database changes and ensuring smooth, predictable, and _low-effort_
+  deployment to production and for training developers to make the best use of
+  MySQL for their projects.
+
+* As a tools developer, I built the [Sparkplug](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sparkplug)
+  framework to standardize the tools and processes for building message-driven
+  applications, allowing the team to move away from monolithic web applications
+  towards a more event-driven suite of interal systems. Providing a standard
+  framework paid off well; building and deploying completely novel event
+  handlers for FreshBooks’ core systems could be completed in as little as a
+  week, including testing and production provisioning.
+
+* As an ops-ish toolsmith, I worked extensively on configuration management
+  for both applications and the underlying servers. I lead a number of
+  projects to reduce the risk around deployments: creating a standard
+  development VM to ensure developers had an environment consistent with
+  reality, automating packaging and rollout to testing servers, automating the
+  _creation_ of testing servers, and more. As part of this work, I built
+  training materials and ran sessions to teach other developers how to think
+  like a sysadmin, covering Linux, Puppet, virtualization, and other topics.
+
+## Riptown Media (2006-2009)
+
+Riptown Media was an software development company tasked with building and
+maintaining a suite of gambling systems for a single client. I was brought on
+board as a Java developer, and rapidly expanded my role to encompass other
+fields.
+
+* As the primary developer for poker-room back office and anti-fraud tools, I
+  worked with the customer support and business intelligence teams to better
+  understand their daily needs and frustrations, so that I could turn those
+  into meaningful improvements to their tools and processes. These
+  improvements, in turn, lead to measurable changes in the frequency and
+  length of customer support calls, in fraud rates, and in the percieved value
+  of internal customer intelligence.
+
+* As a lead developer, my team put together the server half of an in-house 
+  casino gaming platform. We worked in tight collaboration with the client
+  team, in-house and third-party testers, and interaction designers, and
+  delivered our first game in under six months. Our platform was meant to
+  reduce our reliance on third-party “white label” games vendors; internally,
+  it was a success. Our game received zero customer-reported defects during
+  its initial run.
+
+## OSI Geospatial (2004-2006)
+
+At OSI Geospatial, I lead the development of a target-tracking and battlespace
+awareness overlay as part of a suite of operational theatre tools. In 2004, the
+state of the art for web-based geomatics software was not up to the task; this
+ended up being a custom server written in C++ and making heavy use of PostgreSQL
+and PostGIS for its inner workings.
+
+## Contact Me
+
+Sound good? Curious? Want to discuss any of this some more? You can get ahold of
+me at owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca or on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/derspiny).