What I Can Do
I consider myself principally a Python developer. I have spent the past three years developing a diverse range of software in Python, from ETL pipelines to password generators to combinatoric optimizers. But by far most of my time has been spent developing a single web application in the pursuit of my obsession.
Consisting of ≈14,000 lines of code in Python, Flask, and SQLAlchemy, anno.wiki is my pet project to supply the world with definitive, collaborative, and exhaustive annotations to all the world's great literature.
In addition, since my childhood I have developed simple websites and portfolio sites. Most recently I have spent a lot of time writing ReactJS and GatsbyJS, in which this site is built.
Recently, I have begun to explore ML, and am taking several MOOCs on statistics and data science.
A semi-exhaustive list of my skills is found below:
- Python: Flask, SQLAlchemy, pytest, WTForms, Talisman, BeautifulSoup4, Requests, Matplotlib, Seaborn, NumPy, pandas, Scikit-Learn
- Javascript: extensive experience with vanilla JS, GatsbyJS, React, some JQuery
- AWS: EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB
- Heroku
- MariaDB/MySQL
- Elasticsearch
- Sass/CSS3
- Linux: My principle distribution of choice is Arch, but I have worked with Ubuntu and Debian.
- Bash, SSH, Taskwarrior, passwordstore, and a variety of other cli tools.
- Vim/Neovim
- I have experience working with GPG keys, SSH keys, and Yubikeys.
- I have dabbled in Java, C, and Lisp. I am interested in learning Ruby and Go.
- I am fluent in French and am currently learning Spanish.
What I've Done
- vote.py
- Automated Python script to encourage and remind people to register to vote.
- Deployed using AWS EC2 instance to enable continuous service.
- Integrated Twilio as texting client.
- Dynamic scheduling using
datetime and sched
- teamup.py
- Script for programatically generating teams from individuals based on their
skill level. The purpose is to minimize variance between the most skilled and
least skilled team. Takes a yaml file as input.
Who I Am
I've always been interested in computers, developing my first website in just HTML and CSS at age 13, but was more pulled by the liberal arts. I majored in philosophy and classics at Florida State University. I only became more interested in programming as part of my developing obsession with literature.
As I embarked on a personal study of the tragedies of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, I became upset at the lack of definitive and exhaustive resources for deep reading in literature. Annotations on any classical text are scattered among a smattering of academic and popular books with no consistency in quality and content even within one text. They often focused on pedantic textual issues irrelevant to my interest in a deeper grasp of authorial meaning and the text's place in cultural history. So I decided to write my own application for that: a collaborative wiki for annotating classical literature: anno.wiki.
As a result of that experience I delved far deeper into programming and computers than I expected. I studied computer security and calculus. I studied C and Lisp through Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. I delved into Linux ricing and React. I began to recognize the High Culture of Open Source.
I continue to learn, and am currently studying the following:
In my spare time I enjoy literature (particularly William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy), wine, and running.
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