SEEKING WORK - NYC local or remote
Full stack web developer open to freelance opportunities or full-time.
Most recent project: PRISM for restaurants. See any restaurant's online reviews, reviewers, and contact information. App runs its own messaging cue, and was dog-fooded on its own RESTful API. Contact me for a private demo if you want to check it out.
Skills:
Backend: Nginx (favorite), Apache
DevOps: Puppet, Jenkins
Frameworks: Symfony, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, .NET MVC2
Databases: PostgreSQL, MS-SQL, MySQL, MongoDB
Frontend: Backbone, SCSS
Other: Flex (Flash Builder) and AS3, Linux internals
Expert-level PHP & Javascript, fluent in Ruby on Rails, LISP hobbyist. Perl and Bash scripting for automating repetitive tasks. Detailed knowledge of LAMP/LEMP/etc stack. Very familiar with the AWS ecosystem, but also run my own VPSes.
Would like to do more Ruby work, build web applications on top of 3rd party APIs, work with big datasets (I love MapReduce), and scale web apps (Drupal OK), but open to any interesting challenge.
Also, if your startup/company could benefit from web scraping, feel free to contact me.
https://github.com/geetotes
lgillentine at gmail dot com.