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There's a lot in grimoire.ca that I either no longer stand behind or feel pretty weird about having out there.

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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).