Web, Cloud, and SaaS Projects
I've had internet access since modem baud rates were in the 1200bps range, and I think I've had a web presence in some form or another since the mid 1990s. The projects shown here were all forms of "scratching my own itch", and presented great opportunities to learn new programming languages and frameworks. After a six month stint writing back-end Ruby on Rails code for an e-commerce startup I concluded that web apps are a lot more fun as a hobby than a job.
In late 2016 I forgot that lesson and joined a small but world-leading internet company. I rebuilt a four year old website monitoring system for scalability, letting it achieve 100X greater throughput with the same computational resources. The asynchronous pipeline of searching, scraping, and verification touches upwards of a billion database records per day. For reasons to do with its (only somewhat undeserved) reputation, I will happily provide further details verbally, but do not disclose it online.
In late 2016 I forgot that lesson and joined a small but world-leading internet company. I rebuilt a four year old website monitoring system for scalability, letting it achieve 100X greater throughput with the same computational resources. The asynchronous pipeline of searching, scraping, and verification touches upwards of a billion database records per day. For reasons to do with its (only somewhat undeserved) reputation, I will happily provide further details verbally, but do not disclose it online.
A cross between a wiki and a blog, WikiBlog allows anyone to start writing, lets anyone else edit and improve an article, and allows anonymous composition. Authors can lock down their posts if they want, and its easy to narrow down to posts within a given topic. WikiBlog was written in Python using Google App Engine, and you can use it right now by following the link.
This is hardly the most exciting picture on the internet, but WaitMail was a project I developed to learn Python and Google App Engine. It parses emails containing a delay string and destination address, then sends them on to the final recipient after a certain delay. No, you can't use it, because a few months later Boomerang for GMail was released, and it's far better!
JuggleThis.net was the world's first and largest public repository of juggling videos. In its heyday it held over 700 videos, served more than 2TB of bandwidth a month, and paid for itself, allowing it to remain entirely free to the juggling community for more than six years.
This is the developer/app authentication framework for Bigcommerce's e-commerce platform. I wrote most of the ruby on rails backend for this authentication service and the mechanism by which third-party applications can get delegated access to discrete areas within a store.