updated for sparkypants

docs/about.rst

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ About Me
 I'm a software developer from Portland, OR. I spend most of my programming time
 in Node.js and Rust. I spent a significant chunk of my past working in Python,
 so much so I have a large tattoo of one on my left shoulder! I enjoy exploring
-programming language and chatting about them.
+programming languages and chatting about them.
 
 ##########
 Motivators
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ into a system that as evolved for a while and needs to be distilled into clean
 concepts again. Taking a messy system and bringing it to order is delightful.
 
 Finally I love teaching folks, whether it is a 1:1 situation or a meetup full of
-people. When I still getting started in software, the folks who took the time to
+people. When I was just getting started in software, the folks who took the time to
 teach me had a huge impact on where I ended up today. I am always trying to pay
 it back to the community, whether I'm organizing meetups, mentoring friends or
-helping folks out on IRC.
+helping folks out online.

docs/contact.rst

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ Contact
 So, I've intrigued you enough that you want to contact me.
 
 * email: xwraithanx@gmail.com
-* irc: Wraithan on irc.freenode.net
 * twitter: @wraithan
 
 If you want my phone number or other contact information, use one of the above

docs/gigs.rst

@@ -8,16 +8,38 @@ non-technical jobs and spending a lot of time on personal
 :doc:`projects <\projects>` working to develop the skills needed to
 work in the industry.
 
+Sparkypants Studios
+###################
+Senior Backend Enginer (Feb '16 - Jun '17)
+******************************************
+
+I got an opportunity to work on a video game, which had always been a dream of
+mine. As backend engineers we built the systems that stored data, matchmaking,
+login, and provided C++ libraries for the client and game server engineers to use.
+We used a microservice architecture written in Node.js, Python, SQL, and C++. Heavily
+using RabbitMQ as our message bus and MySQL as our database.
+
+* Redesigned the matchmaking backend to enable a confirm step before creating the game,
+  while refactoring all data collection from the database to be just in time instead of
+  up front eliminating a large class of bugs and AFK users.
+* Built an automated deployment system for our staging environment, with fully automatic
+  registration and decommissioning of game servers on top of systemd and ansible.
+* Built and designed a full consent friend system to systemically prevent abuse where
+  possible.
+* Refactored a C++ wrapper around libcurl to standardize header parsing and error
+  propagation, preventing accidentally ignored errors and making HTTP access code
+  easier to write.
+
 New Relic
 #########
-Node.js Agent Engineer (Apr '14 - Present)
-********************************************
+Node.js Agent Engineer (Apr '14 - Feb '16)
+******************************************
 
-My first full time gig working in Node.js. So far this has been an amazing
-experience. I've been able to connect with so much of the Node.js community via
-my work for New Relic. The Node.js Agent is the library New Relic customers
-install in their Node.js applications which monitors it and sends data back to
-New Relic servers for analysis.
+My first full time gig working in Node.js, and it was an amazing experience. 
+I've was able to connect with so much of the Node.js community via my work for
+New Relic. The Node.js Agent is the library New Relic customers install in
+their Node.js applications which monitors it and sends data back to New Relic
+servers for analysis.
 
 * Maintained a weekly release cadence for over 52 weeks in a row. Allowing the
   agent to respond quickly to the needs of our users.
@@ -26,6 +48,8 @@ New Relic servers for analysis.
   reduction in support escalations.
 * Learned about the deep internals of Node.js and v8 in order to make our agent
   more accurate and performant.
+* Wrote and designed systems that accounted for as many error cases as possible
+  because an error in the agent could crash a user's system.
 
 Contracting
 ###########

docs/index.rst

@@ -12,16 +12,15 @@ The Resume of Wraithan, A Backend Developer
     Open Source Bridge 2011.
 
 Hi there, my legal name is Chris McDonald but I prefer `Wraithan
-<http://wraithan.net/>`_. This is my web resume. If you are looking for a more
-traditional one (may be out of date), you can find that `here
-<https://github.com/wraithan/resume/blob/master/scannable_resume.pdf?raw=true>`_.
+<http://wraithan.net/>`_. This is my web resume. I'm looking for a job, but I'm
+only interested in Portland, OR based jobs or jobs where I could be remote from here.
 
 Who is he?
 
 * A polyglot who enjoys the commonalities and contrasts of each
   programming language and platform.
 * A native of Portland, OR, USA. (And is not looking to relocate)
-* A performance and stability nut.
+* Loves tuning systems for performance and stability.
 * A nerd, cyclist, and metal head.
 
 I am a Node.js and Rust hacker. Though I have years of Python development

docs/projects.rst

@@ -6,11 +6,49 @@ The vast majority of my projects are open source and can be found on
 GitHub_. This is a list of projects I've written or contributed to in
 some way. I love discussing them, so feel free to ask me about them.
 
+##############
+Message Broker
+##############
+
+`Message Broker`_ is an ongoing project where I'm attempting to write an enterprise
+worthy message broker akin to RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Redis' Pub/Sub layer. I plan on
+open sourcing once I get it to a usable state, but chunks of the code have been posted
+to my blog.
+
+* Building on top of Tokio which is becoming a community standard for building services,
+  protocols, and as a layer to manage async machinery.
+* I'm also writing a best practices book to go along with it, as an exercise in that
+  type of writing. This way I design the message broker in a usable way that encourages
+  good system architecture.
+
+########
+md-to-wp
+########
+
+`md-to-wp`_ is a small rust project I coded up in an afternoon to convert
+markdown to a WordPress friendly HTML. This includes colorizing my code examples.
+You can see it in action `this blog post`_.
+
+###############
+i-can-manage-it 
+###############
+
+`i-can-manage-it`_ is a game and game engine I started writting to get used to
+the world of game development. I haven't open sourced it yet, but I did do some
+writing about it as I learned and encounted problems.
+
+* First Rust project where performance really mattered, so I got to spend some
+  time optimizing.
+* Had to learn and relearn linear algebra in order to do the coordinate transforms
+  to do camera effects and object manipulation I wanted.
+* Wrote a debug socket server that I hooked up to an Electron project that displayed
+  stats about my running game engine.
+
 ##########
 cargo-bump
 ##########
 
-`cargo-bump`_ is a command that increases the version number of the rust project
+`cargo-bump`_ is a command that increases the version number of the Rust project
 you are currently in. It is meant to be a Rust version of npm version.
 
 * A fun exercise in gluing libraries together in Rust.
@@ -108,6 +146,7 @@ well!
 
 
 .. _GitHub: https://github.com/wraithan
+.. _`i-can-manage-it`: https://wraithan.net/2016/09/11/started-writing-a-game/
 .. _`cargo-bump`: https://github.com/wraithan/cargo-bump
 .. _`weechat-notifier`: https://github.com/weechat-notifier
 .. _WeeChat: https://weechat.org
@@ -116,3 +155,6 @@ well!
 .. _ZenIRCBot: https://github.com/zenirc/zenircbot
 .. _this: https://github.com/wraithan/resume
 .. _resume: http://resume.readthedocs.org/
+.. _`md-to-wp`: https://github.com/wraithan/md-to-wp
+.. _`this blog post`: https://wraithan.net/2017/06/15/message-broker-channel-naming/
+.. _`Message Broker`: https://wraithan.net/tag/message-broker/

docs/technical_skills.rst

@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ file formats, to window managers, to IRC bots, to web sites.
 Language Skills:
 
 * Deep understanding of Node.js.
-* Have worked with Python, SQL in the recent past.
+* Have worked with Python, C++, and SQL in the recent past.
 * Have played with Rust quite a bit.
-* Have some work experience in the further past in PHP, Perl, Java, C++
+* Have some work experience in the further past in PHP, Perl, and Java
 * Others I've played with in some capacity or another: Lua, Haskell, Common
   Lisp, Clojure, and Go
 
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ pub/sub. I have use it for:
 * Django session storage.
 * Celery queue backend (including connection pooling)
 * Micro services based IRC bot using Redis' pub/sub as a transport.
+* Chat system for a video game
 
 ##########
 PostgreSQL
@@ -122,6 +123,14 @@ open source, and I've come to rely on it anytime I need a database.
 * Used pgbouncer to do connection pooling to decrease latency.
 * Have scaled to tables with millions of rows.
 
+#####
+MySQL
+#####
+
+Used this in a pretty large database (150+ tables) which required a deeper
+understanding of relational algebra than I had previously. Learned many of the
+quirks around time handling and strict mode SQL as I wrote queries to gather user
+and game state from the database.
 
 ###
 Git
@@ -136,6 +145,9 @@ have passion about how to use their version control system.
 C++
 ###
 
+Working on Dropzone at Sparkypants meant developing async C++ libraries for use by
+the game client and game server to communicate to the backend services.
+
 In working with hardware I've had to relearn and get better at C++. It was my
 first language, so coming back to it after spending years doing other
 development is quite a bit of fun. Most of the development has been for arduino