Broomfield, CO | Boulder, CO | Westminster, CO
Also known as: devnulled
Talented and experienced Software Engineer with sound academic principals and years of professional experience with internet based applications. Thorough understanding of internet based applications all the way from the UI to JEE application servers down to the OSI model used to connect to them. Self-teaching and an early adoptertire kicker for many applications and technologies. Personality-wise I'm pragmatic, curious, and humble. Very passionate about technology in general. Great communicator in both written and oral forms. As an experienced Engineer in both startups and large companies, I have a great sense of the sweet spot between "fast" and "good" in order to support both the short and long term goals of business. I strive to work with the best people and best technology-- you won't find me settling for a " to " or anywhere that I am unable to make a solid contribution towards making things better. Although I'm very passionate about what I do, I'm not a diva programmer. I work well in teams and love working with colleagues who can teach me new things. I believe in agile, test-driven development with high levels of unit and integration tests with as much automation as possible. I read sites like High Scalability for fun, and continually evaluate new tools and technologies to make sure I'm on my game. Lastly and possibly most important out of everything you have read about me, I have maintained a sweet programmers beard for over years now which helps empower me to write clean, well tested code. Specialties Overall, I specialize in building or enhancing Java based applications to be simple, flexible, based on open standards, scale to handle high levels of traffic, provide high availability, be easily manageable, and behave predictably. This includes everything such as automating repetitive tasks to collaboratively designing clustered or cloud based systems. Java, ColdFusion, JBoss, Tomcat, Scaling JEE Architecture, Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, Maven, Amazon Web Services, Double Rainbows, and Spring
