Are you looking for a geek? Someone with immense skill in their field, full of enthusiasm and good ideas, along with an innate love of technology and dedication to their projects? Maybe you want a geek who can also work well in teams, remotely or on site, and who knows how to manage a project?
If so, you’ve stumbled across me. Better luck next time, eh?
Seriously, though – I’m available for hire as a remote worker (with the ability to commute locally around the Staines/Heathrow area and London at a pinch) during Royal Holloway’s term time, and full time in either the Staines/Heathrow area or Oxford in the holidays.
I build things, come up with new products and tools, develop clever solutions to complex problems, and I’m also a good team player, with experience in team and project management. I work primarily with Ruby (Rails and Sinatra frameworks in particular), Python, Java, and C. I’m published in the Ruby world and have released many open source tools and libraries for various languages and projects as well as collaborating on a few. I do all my own stunts system administration for my projects, so I’ve got a lot of experience running small to medium scale Linux and Windows networks as well as mixed-system environments, plus bucketloads of general networking experience and system architecture knowledge.
I’m also a fairly serious audio geek, with tons of practical experience in live audio reinforcement and mixing, production engineering, broadcast engineering (with an emphasis on radio), as well as computer interfacing and software development for audio applications. I’m an Audio Engineering Society member and have been working with music for most of my life; it’s why I do most of what I do.
My CV and portfolio can be requested via email.