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.