10+ years of experience across backend systems, databases, and application development. Passionate about clean interfaces, good documentation, and open source.
Extensively experienced with:
Go, Javascript-HTML-CSS, Nix, Bash, Lua, Clojure, Erlang;
Redis, Postgres/MariaDB, Cassandra/Scylla, Mongo;
Nginx, Caddy, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK stack, Ansible, GCE;
Many flavors of Linux; Docker.
5+ years 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.
I also have past experience with many other languages and tools which I could easily pick back up.
May 2015 - January 2018
Co-Founder
Senior Backend Developer
getadmiral.com is a platform to help publishers analyze and recover revenue being lost due to adblocking users.
Senior Systems Engineer (from intern)
2010 - Apr 2015
Grooveshark was a web-based music streaming site in the same vein as Spotify.
github.com/mediocregopher 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.
I frequently document the progress of my various projects on my blog.