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docs/about.rst

@@ -2,37 +2,32 @@
 About Me
 ========
 
-I am a social hacker from Portland, OR, USA. A large number of my
-evenings are spent hanging out with fellow programmers at cafes or
-bars. Commonly discussing our latest and greatest projects over some
-nachos.
+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.
 
-#############
-Why do I hack
-#############
+##########
+Motivators
+##########
 
-Repetition is one of the banes of my existence. The first time I do
-something it is new and interesting. The second time I get a feel for
-what parts should, could, and probably will be automated. The third
-time I am definitely looking for and/or writing tools to solve this 
-problem for me.
+Making code as bullet proof as possible. I've found few things in software give
+me the same sense of satisfaction as knowing it is extremely hard to crash my
+code. Rigorously going through code and making sure all error cases are
+accounted for in code and writing tests to validate it is how I can comfortably
+sleep at night with my code running on critical servers.
 
-There is a lot of great software out there, functionality wise if not
-code beauty wise. I find over time instead of building my own unique
-projects that provide something that stands on its own, I am gluing
-services together in order to make the web a more coherent place.
+Next is probably making code more performant. Whether this is alogrithm work,
+caching, query tuning, or any other optimization work. Profiling something,
+changing some code, and seeing it get faster always puts a smile on my face.
 
-Finally there is the wonderful micro high that comes along with
-solving a problem. It is even better if it was a hard problem or you
-have an elegant solution. The best is a really hard problem, really
-elegant solution, and being able to show it off to my friends because
-it is open source.
+Putting those together in some eloquent solution is what I always strive for in
+my projects. I just enjoy cleaning up technical debt. Usually this means going
+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.
 
-###########
-Personality
-###########
-
-* Programming Polyglot
-* IRC is one of the first things I reconnect to when I open my laptop.
-* Long time Linux nerd (I used slackware when it was "cool")
-* Cyclist, both commute and sport.
+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
+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.

docs/gigs.rst

@@ -8,6 +8,34 @@ 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.
 
+New Relic
+#########
+Node.js Agent Engineer (Apr '14 - Present)
+********************************************
+
+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.
+
+* Maintained a weekly release cadance for over 52 weeks in a row. Allowing the
+  agent to respond quickly to the needs of our users.
+* Ran a series of support training session giving our support engineers much
+  deeper understanding of how Node and our agent works. Resulting is a large
+  reduction in support escalations.
+* Learned about the deep internals of Node.js and v8 in order to make our agent
+  more accurate and performant.
+
+Contracting
+###########
+Web Developer (Oct '13 - Apr '14)
+*********************************
+
+I took on a few small contracts in this time, mostly though I spent my time
+learning to be a better Node.js engineer as I wanted to take my career toward
+more asynchronous progrmaming.
+
 Mozilla
 #######
 Web Developer (May '12 - Sept '13)

docs/projects.rst

@@ -6,6 +6,31 @@ 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.
 
+##########
+cargo-bump
+##########
+
+`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.
+* An interesting opportunity to work with others in the community who are
+  writing Rust libraries.
+* Started as a challenge to myself to build a Rust project from scratch in a
+  night.
+
+################
+WeeChat Notifier
+################
+
+`weechat-notifier`_ is a daemon written in Rust meant to connect to a running
+WeeChat_ session on another machine and provide notifications on the local
+machine. I am writing it mostly as an experiment in writing a parser, client
+library, and a daemon in Rust.
+
+* Learned a valuable lesson about how writing a parser in a static language like
+  you would in a dynamic language results in cumbersome code.
+* Had a lot of fun experimenting with different testing styles.
 
 #############
 Read the Docs
@@ -20,11 +45,11 @@ push your docs are automatically rebuilt.
 
 What I did for the project:
 
-* Core developer/maintainer on the project.
+* Core developer/maintainer on the project for a couple years.
 * Wrote better integration with GitHub, including tests.
 * Made it possible for multiple people be admins on a project.
 * Took part in architecture discussions with the maintainer.
-* Took over maintainship for 4 months while the previous maintainer was away.
+* Took over maintainership for 4 months while the previous maintainer was away.
 
 #########
 ZenIRCBot
@@ -46,14 +71,14 @@ PDXNode
 #######
 
 This is less a software project and more a project that revolves around,
-software. I'm co-organizer for the group, which means planning meetings,
-getting speakers, running workshops, and more.
+software. I was a co-organizer for the group for years, which meant planning
+meetings, getting speakers, running workshops, and more.
 
-* Once a month software hack night that I mentor at.
-* Once a month hardware hack night which I am core mentor for.
-* Once a month presentation night, some months I fill in if we can't find a
+* Once a month software hack night that I mentored at.
+* Once a month hardware hack night which I was a core mentor for.
+* Once a month presentation night, some months I filled in if we couldn't find a
   speaker.
-* Periodic workshops, some I am the main organizer, others I'm just a mentor.
+* Periodic workshops, some I was the main organizer, others I was just a mentor.
 
 ########
 Hardware
@@ -83,6 +108,9 @@ well!
 
 
 .. _GitHub: https://github.com/wraithan
+.. _`cargo-bump`: https://github.com/wraithan/cargo-bump
+.. _`weechat-notifier`: https://github.com/weechat-notifier
+.. _WeeChat: https://weechat.org
 .. _`Read the Docs`: http://readthedocs.org/
 .. _sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
 .. _ZenIRCBot: https://github.com/zenirc/zenircbot

docs/technical_skills.rst

@@ -6,19 +6,50 @@ This is a list of my stronger technical skills. I've played with
 writing things ranging from graphics engines, to decoding game save
 file formats, to window managers, to IRC bots, to web sites.
 
-For a concise list of languages and time spent in them:
+Language Skills:
+
+* Deep understanding of Node.js.
+* Have worked with Python, 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++
+* Others I've played with in some capacity or another: Lua, Haskell, Common
+  Lisp, Clojure, and Go
+
+#######
+Node.js
+#######
+
+It sparked the fire in me to really start enjoying JavaScript. I have used it to
+build out microservices, commandline utilities, libraries, and for work.
+
+* Have a deep understanding of performance in Node.js and V8.
+* Wrote instrumentation for a number of database drivers and frameworks,
+  requiring knowledge of the library internals.
+* Wrote a benchmarking suite as a series of microservices that can run
+  benchmarking and load testing jobs for days or weeks.
+* Participated in various contributor discussions affecting the direction of
+  Node.js for tracing and release cycle.
+* Have played in lots of online AI games using JS.
 
-* 6+ years experience with Python and SQL.
-* 4+ years experiency with Javascript (3 of which were focused on Node)
-* 2+ years experience with C++, Perl, PHP, Java, and Lua.
-* 1+ years experience with Haskell, C, and C#.
-* Have played with many others including Common Lisp, Ruby, Go, and Clojure
+####
+Rust
+####
+
+This programming language is easily my favorite at the moment. The ownership
+system and the type system both feel like a great advancement over other modern
+languages. It has really reawaked my desire to work at the native layer instead
+of in VMs.
+
+* Primary language I use on the weekends for learning and small projects.
+* Spent time reimplementing past Node.js AI bots of mine in Rust and seeing the
+  differences in algorithms.
+* Language of choice for code challenges like `Advent of Code <http://adventofcode.com/>`_
 
 ######
 Python
 ######
 
-I've spent the last 5 years programming in Python, 3 of that was
+I've spent about 6 years programming in Python, 4 of that was
 professional. Most of my experience with Python is centered around
 writing Django applications.
 
@@ -29,9 +60,9 @@ Some things I've built outside of web applications:
 * Feed aggregators
 * Plugins and extensions for various tools that embed Python.
 
-######
+------
 Django
-######
+------
 
 If I am going to write a web app, I am probably going to start with
 ``django-admin.py startproject <project name>``. I've been using it for
@@ -45,9 +76,9 @@ Here are some highlights of from Django projects I've worked on.
 * Upgrading between multiple Django versions.
 * Numerous community and small business sites.
 
-######
+------
 Celery
-######
+------
 
 I use this when I need to offload tasks in Django based sites. Here
 are a few things I have done with it:
@@ -58,9 +89,9 @@ are a few things I have done with it:
 * Divided tasks into separated queues so the Celery daemon could be
   shared to multiple servers.
 
-######
+------
 Fabric
-######
+------
 
 This tool has saved me hours, if not days of my life.
 
@@ -91,46 +122,6 @@ 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.
 
-##########
-JavaScript
-##########
-
-I've used it for many years now. Mostly doing front end work on the
-web. But more recently I've also done things like building a Firefox
-add-on, and many little micro-services.
-
-######
-jQuery
-######
-
-When I am doing JavaScript for the sake of front end development I
-tend to lean on this library quite a bit for its selectors and other
-niceties.
-
-* Built many dynamic front ends using AJAX
-* Built a Firefox Add-on that uses jQuery to build and modify most of
-  the DOM.
-
-##################
-Firefox Add-on SDK
-##################
-I've only built one but plan on building more.
-
-* An add-on for listing GitHub repos and quick links for them (code,
-  issues, wiki, etc)
-
-
-####
-Node
-####
-
-It sparked the fire in me to really start enjoying JavaScript. I have been
-using it to build out co-operative micro-services such as:
-
-* An IRC bot.
-* A layer for receiving web hooks.
-* A GitHub post receive hook processor.
-* Process management for all of these micro-services.
 
 ###
 Git
@@ -149,3 +140,7 @@ 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
 compatible chips, communicating with the outside world using serial.
+
+I also have had to read a lot of C++ while inspecting the internals of Node.js
+and V8, developing my ability to read other people's C++ in complex
+environments.