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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<!-- Basic Page Needs -->
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Brian Picciano - Freelance Developer</title>
<meta name="author" content="Brian Picciano">
<!-- No favicon -->
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="#" />
<!-- Mobile Specific Metas -->
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<!-- CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/skeleton.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="header">
<div class="tab"><a href="index.html">/resume</a></div><!--
--><div class="tab"><a href="contact.html">/contact</a></div><!--
--><div class="selected tab">/about</div>
<div class="x">X</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<h1>About This Site</h1>
<p>
The design of this site is based on the layout and color theme
of the IDE I use for all my development. I use
<a href="https://neovim.io/">Neovim</a> in a terminal, with the
<a href="https://github.com/NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme">Papercolor</a>
theme for readability.
</p>
<p>
The server hosting this site, and all of my other services, lives in
my living room.
</p>
</div>
<div class="footer">
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</div>
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<body>
<div class="header">
<div class="tab"><a href="index.html">/index</a></div><!--
--><div class="tab"><a href="resume.html">/resume</a></div><!--
--><div class="selected tab">/contact</div>
<div class="tab"><a href="index.html">/resume</a></div><!--
--><div class="selected tab">/contact</div><!--
--><div class="tab"><a href="about.html">/about</a></div>
<div class="x">X</div>
</div>
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<p>
Please direct all questions and inquiries to:
<a href="mailto:bgpicciano@gmail.com"/>mediocregopher@gmail.com</a>
</p>
<a href="mailto:bgpicciano@gmail.com"/>bgpicciano@gmail.com</a>
<p>
You are also free to message me on matrix at:
<a href="https://matrix.to/#/@mediocregopher:waffle.farm">@mediocregopher:waffle.farm</a>
</p>
</div>

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<!-- Basic Page Needs -->
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Brian Picciano - Freelance Developer</title>
<title>Brian Picciano - Senior Backend Engineer - Resume</title>
<meta name="author" content="Brian Picciano">
<!-- No favicon -->
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/skeleton.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
<style>
.section-tail {
padding-bottom: 2rem;
margin-bottom: 4rem;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}
@media print {
* {
font-size: .95em !important;
}
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width: 90%;
}
h1 { font-size: 1.2em !important; }
h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-size: 1em !important; }
.no-print { display: none !important; }
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="header">
<div class="selected tab">/index</div><!--
--><div class="tab"><a href="resume.html">/resume</a></div><!--
--><div class="tab"><a href="contact.html">/contact</a></div>
<div class="selected tab">/resume</div><!--
--><div class="tab"><a href="contact.html">/contact</a></div><!--
--><div class="tab"><a href="about.html">/about</a></div>
<div class="x">X</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<h1>Brian Picciano</h1>
<h2>Freelance Developer</h2>
<div class="row">
<h1 style="margin-bottom:1rem;">Brian Picciano</h1>
<h2 style="margin-bottom:0;font-size:2rem;">Senior Backend Engineer</h2>
<h2 style="font-size:1.8rem;">University of Florida 2013 · BS Software Engineering · Mathematics Minor</h2>
</div>
<p>
Hello! My name is <strong>Brian Picciano</strong>. I'm a full-stack
developer with a focus on designing <em>secure</em> and
<em>scalable</em> backends for web applications.
</p>
<p>
I have gained experience with an <em>extremely diverse</em> set of
languages, databases, and products over the last <em>ten years</em>,
and I'm always looking for more.
</p>
<p>
Remote work has been my life since 2015. No matter where in the
<em>world</em> your team is, I can work with them smoothly and
effectively over a variety of communication platforms.
</p>
<div class="row">
<div class="four columns">
<p>
<em>12+ years</em> of experience across backend systems,
databases, and application development. Passionate about
clean interfaces, good documentation, and open source.
</p>
</div>
<div class="eight columns">
<p>
<strong>Extensively experienced with:</strong><br/>
Go, Javascript-HTML-CSS, Nix, Bash, Lua, Clojure, Erlang;<br/>
Redis, Postgres, Cassandra/Scylla, Mongo;<br/>
Nginx, Caddy, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK stack;<br/>
Many flavors of Linux; Docker.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<h2>What I Do</h2>
<div class="row section-tail">
<div class="four columns">
<p>
<em>7+ years</em> of experience working remotely as a
developer. Well-versed in communicating over slack, zoom,
and email, and in maintaining good working relationships
across large timezone differences.
</p>
</div>
<div class="eight columns">
<p>
I also have past experience with many other languages and
tools which I could easily pick back up.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<p>
I help you <em>solve your problems</em>, no matter what stage of
development you're at. <a href="contact.html">Contact me</a> if you
need someone to:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Create a <em>development roadmap</em>, so your app can scale
globally starting from <em>now</em>.
</li>
<li>
Analyze or design your <em>system architecture</em> with an eye to
performance, scaling, security, and visibility.
</li>
<li>
Get down into the weeds to <em>debug</em> those pesky network and
operating system adjacent issues which eat so much dev time when
they show up.
</li>
<li>
Be the <em>one extra super-dev</em> you need to grind out that
crucial feature before deadline.
</li>
<li>
Try something new and different! I'm a quick learner and can
execute research spikes and MVPs for ideas that have yet to be
proven or even fully understood.
</li>
</ul>
<div class="row section-tail">
<div class="four columns">
<h4>Open-Source</h4>
<p>
I publish all my personal work to
<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher">GitHub</a>
and
<a href="https://code.betamike.com/mediocregopher">Gitea</a>.
</p>
<p>
I frequently document the progress of my various projects
on <a href="https://blog.mediocregopher.com">my blog</a>.
</p>
</div>
<div class="eight columns">
<ul>
<h2>What I've Done</h2>
<li>
Author of
<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/radix">radix</a>,
one of the recommended Redis drivers for Go.
</li>
<p>
You can see a breakdown of all my past work at my
<a href="resume.html">resume</a> page. Feel free to
<a href="contact.html">reach out to me</a> if you have any questions
about my past work.
</p>
<li>
Primary author of <a href="https://code.betamike.com/cryptic-io/cryptic-net">cryptic-net</a>,
a foundation for a community-run cloud infrastructure.
</li>
<h2>Next Steps</h2>
<li>
Author of <a href="https://code.betamike.com/mediocregopher/dehub">dehub</a>,
a git project hosting platform baked into the project's
commit history itself. (It's not much used, even by me,
but it's functional and I'm proud of it.)
</li>
<p>
Drop by my <a href="contact.html">contact</a> page to schedule a
<em>free</em>, 45 minute consultation. We will discuss your project,
what sort of assistance you need from me, and a timeline to get it
to you.
</p>
<li>
Long-term work on a toy (so far)
<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/ginger">programming language</a>.
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row section-tail">
<div class="four columns">
<h4>Admiral</h4>
<p>
May 2015 - January 2018<br/>
Co-Founder<br/>
Senior Backend Engineer<br/>
</p>
<p>
<a href="https://getadmiral.com">getadmiral.com</a> is a
platform to help publishers analyze and recover revenue
being lost due to adblocking users.
</p>
</div>
<div class="eight columns">
<ul>
<li>
Wrote a custom analytics platform in Go, using Google
BigTable as backing store and Redis/Mongo as aggregation
caches. Handled a global load of &gt;27 million new rows
an hour, with up-to-the-hour analytics for all
customers.
</li>
<li>
Implemented a custom, dc-aware service discovery system
for our microservices based app, using Etcd &amp;
SkyDNS. Included health checking, metrics,
rolling-restarts, and more.
</li>
<li>
Designed Go-based framework for implementing
microservices which automatically handled configuration,
logging, health checks, metrics, RPC/service discovery,
and more.
</li>
<li>
Implemented an internal RFC process for new product
features and maintained the internal technical
documentation wiki.
</li>
<li>
Contributed to designing and implementing the
provisioning/deployment system using Ansible, and began
work on migrating to Kubernetes.
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row section-tail" style="">
<div class="four columns">
<h4>Grooveshark</h4>
<p>
Senior Systems Engineer (from intern)<br/>
2010 - Apr 2015<br/>
</p>
<p>
Grooveshark was a web-based music streaming site in the
same vein as Spotify.
</p>
</div>
<div class="eight columns">
<ul>
<li>
Wrote client-to-client communication server in Erlang
(with Redis backend) which served as the backbone of the
Broadcasts feature, where users host their own
radio-like channels, complete with voting, real-time
chat, and moderation.
</li>
<li>
Designed and implemented Feeds feature using PHP and
Mongo, where users could see the recent listening
activites of their friends in a Facebook-like feed.
</li>
<li>
Managed and fine-tuned LAMP stack, as well as oversaw
migration from Apache to nginx/php-fpm. Maintained
complex nginx setup, including use of the lua-scripting
module on some domains.
</li>
<li>
Wrote and maintained the deployment scripts for frontend
code, and contributed significantly to the Chef-based
provisioning system.
</li>
<li>
Initiated and oversaw the migration of frontend devs
from using a shared development server to individual
Vagrant setups.
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<!-- Basic Page Needs -->
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Brian Picciano - Senior Systems and Backend Programmer - Resume</title>
<meta name="author" content="Brian Picciano">
<!-- No favicon -->
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="#" />
<!-- Mobile Specific Metas -->
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<!-- CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/skeleton.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
<style>
.section-tail {
padding-bottom: 2rem;
margin-bottom: 4rem;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}
@media print {
* {
font-size: .95em !important;
}
.container {
width: 90%;
}
h1 { font-size: 1.2em !important; }
h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-size: 1em !important; }
.no-print { display: none !important; }
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="header">
<div class="tab"><a href="index.html">/index</a></div><!--
--><div class="selected tab">/resume</div><!--
--><div class="tab"><a href="contact.html">/contact</a></div>
<div class="x">X</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<h1 style="margin-bottom:1rem;">Brian Picciano</h1>
<h2 style="margin-bottom:0;font-size:2rem;">Senior Systems and Backend Programmer</h2>
<h2 style="font-size:1.8rem;">University of Florida 2013 · BS Software Engineering · Mathematics Minor</h2>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="four columns">
<p>
<em>10+ years</em> of experience across backend systems,
databases, and application development. Passionate about
clean interfaces, good documentation, and open source.
</p>
</div>
<div class="eight columns">
<p>
<strong>Extensively experienced with:</strong><br/>
Go, Javascript-HTML-CSS, Nix, Bash, Lua, Clojure, Erlang;<br/>
Redis, Postgres/MariaDB, Cassandra/Scylla, Mongo;<br/>
Nginx, Caddy, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK stack, Ansible, GCE;<br/>
Many flavors of Linux; Docker.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row section-tail">
<div class="four columns">
<p>
<em>5+ years</em> of experience working remotely as a
developer. Well-versed in communicating over slack, zoom,
and email, and in maintaining good working relationships
across large timezone differences.
</p>
</div>
<div class="eight columns">
<p>
I also have past experience with many other languages and
tools which I could easily pick back up.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row section-tail">
<div class="four columns">
<h4>Admiral</h4>
<p>
May 2015 - January 2018<br/>
Co-Founder<br/>
Senior Backend Developer<br/>
</p>
<p>
<a href="https://getadmiral.com">getadmiral.com</a> is a
platform to help publishers analyze and recover revenue
being lost due to adblocking users.
</p>
</div>
<div class="eight columns">
<ul>
<li>
Wrote a custom analytics platform in Go, using Google
BigTable as backing store and Redis/Mongo as aggregation
caches. Handled a global load of &gt;27 million new rows
an hour, with up-to-the-hour analytics for all
customers.
</li>
<li>
Implemented a custom, dc-aware service discovery system
for our microservices based app, using Etcd &amp;
SkyDNS. Included health checking, metrics,
rolling-restarts, and more.
</li>
<li>
Designed Go-based framework for implementing
microservices which automatically handled configuration,
logging, health checks, metrics, RPC/service discovery,
and more.
</li>
<li>
Implemented an internal RFC process for new product
features and maintained the internal technical
documentation wiki.
</li>
<li>
Contributed to designing and implementing the
provisioning/deployment system using Ansible, and began
work on migrating to Kubernetes.
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row section-tail" style="">
<div class="four columns">
<h4>Grooveshark</h4>
<p>
Senior Systems Engineer (from intern)<br/>
2010 - Apr 2015<br/>
</p>
<p>
Grooveshark was a web-based music streaming site in the
same vein as Spotify.
</p>
</div>
<div class="eight columns">
<ul>
<li>
Wrote client-to-client communication server in Erlang
(with Redis backend) which served as the backbone of the
Broadcasts feature, where users host their own
radio-like channels, complete with voting, real-time
chat, and moderation.
</li>
<li>
Designed and implemented Feeds feature using PHP and
Mongo, where users could see the recent listening
activites of their friends in a Facebook-like feed.
</li>
<li>
Managed and fine-tuned LAMP stack, as well as oversaw
migration from Apache to nginx/php-fpm. Maintained
complex nginx setup, including use of the lua-scripting
module on some domains.
</li>
<li>
Wrote and maintained the deployment scripts for frontend
code, and contributed significantly to the Chef-based
provisioning system.
</li>
<li>
Initiated and oversaw the migration of frontend devs
from using a shared development server to individual
Vagrant setups.
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row" style="">
<div class="four columns">
<h4>Open-Source/Personal Projects</h4>
<p>
<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher">github.com/mediocregopher</a>
contains much of my public work. Most of it is throw-away
projects, but listed here are a few which are actively
developed and much loved.
</p>
<p>
I frequently document the progress of my various projects
on <a href="https://blog.mediocregopher.com">my blog</a>.
</p>
</div>
<div class="eight columns">
<ul>
<li>
Author of one of the recommended Redis drivers for Go,
<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/radix">radix</a>.
</li>
<li>
Author of one of <a href="https://dehub.dev">dehub</a>, a
git project hosting platform baked into the project's
commit history itself. It's not much used, even by me, but
it's functional and I'm proud of it.
</li>
<li>
Working on an unreleased project, where we are creating
the foundation for community-run cloud infrastructures.
</li>
<li>
Long-term work on a toy (so far)
<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/ginger">programming language</a>.
You can follow the progress of the language at
<a
href="https://blog.mediocregopher.com/2021/12/31/ginger-its-alive.html">blog.mediocregopher.com</a>.
</li>
<li>
Author of small art projects such as
<a href="https://blog.mediocregopher.com/2021/07/01/viz-7.html">viz</a>
and others featured at
<a href="https://blog.mediocregopher.com">blog.mediocregopher.com</a>,
mostly written in Clojure.
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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return percent + "%"
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