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diff --git a/.html/hire-me.html b/.html/hire-me.html deleted file mode 100644 index fc3e45d..0000000 --- a/.html/hire-me.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,187 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html> -<head> - <title> - The Codex » - Hire Me - </title> - - <link - rel='stylesheet' - type='text/css' - href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Buenard:400,700&subset=latin,latin-ext'> - <link - rel="stylesheet" - type="text/css" - href="media/css/reset.css"> - <link - rel="stylesheet" - type="text/css" - href="media/css/grimoire.css"> -</head> -<body> - -<div id="shell"> - - <ol id="breadcrumbs"> - - <li class="crumb-0 not-last"> - - <a href="./">index</a> - - </li> - - <li class="crumb-1 last"> - - hire-me - - </li> - - </ol> - - - - <div id="article"> - <h1 id="hire-me">Hire Me</h1> -<p>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.</p> -<p>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.</p> -<p>You can see more about me as a person on -<a href="https://hiremyfriend.io/profiles/90b8caa5">HireMyFriend</a> or -<a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/ojacobson/">LinkedIn</a>. You can also get a sense of -the code I write by looking at this blog, as well as my -<a href="https://bitbucket.org/ojacobson">Bitbucket</a> or -<a href="https://github.com/ojacobson/">Github</a> sites: I recommend starting with -<a href="https://github.com/ojacobson/refreshbooks">Refreshbooks</a> or -<a href="https://github.com/ojacobson/sparkplug">Sparkplug</a>.</p> -<h2 id="for-fun">For Fun</h2> -<p>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 <a href="http://angularjs.org">AngularJS</a> -and <a href="https://jersey.java.net">Jersey 2</a> 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.</p> -<p>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.</p> -<h2 id="freshbooks-2009-2014">FreshBooks (2009-2014)</h2> -<p>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:</p> -<ul> -<li> -<p>As the lead <a href="http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else">MySQL</a> 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 <em>low-effort</em> - deployment to production and for training developers to make the best use of - MySQL for their projects.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>As a tools developer, I built the <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sparkplug">Sparkplug</a> - 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.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>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 - <em>creation</em> 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.</p> -</li> -</ul> -<h2 id="riptown-media-2006-2009">Riptown Media (2006-2009)</h2> -<p>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.</p> -<ul> -<li> -<p>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.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>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.</p> -</li> -</ul> -<h2 id="osi-geospatial-2004-2006">OSI Geospatial (2004-2006)</h2> -<p>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.</p> -<h2 id="contact-me">Contact Me</h2> -<p>Sound good? Curious? Want to discuss any of this some more? You can get ahold of -me at owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca or on <a href="https://twitter.com/derspiny">Twitter</a>.</p> - </div> - - - -<div id="comments"> -<div id="disqus_thread"></div> -<script type="text/javascript"> - /* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * */ - var disqus_shortname = 'grimoire'; // required: replace example with your forum shortname - - /* * * DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * */ - (function() { - var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true; - dsq.src = 'http://' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js'; - (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq); - })(); -</script> -<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript> -<a href="http://disqus.com" class="dsq-brlink">comments powered by <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span></a> -</div> - - - - <div id="footer"> - <p> - - The Codex — - - Powered by <a href="http://markdoc.org/">Markdoc</a>. - -<a href="https://bitbucket.org/ojacobson/grimoire.ca/src/master/wiki/hire-me.md">See this page on Bitbucket</a> (<a href="https://bitbucket.org/ojacobson/grimoire.ca/history-node/master/wiki/hire-me.md">history</a>). - - </p> - </div> - -</div> -</body> -</html>
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