Hello! I am an experienced web developer and entrepreneur. My passion and strength lies in rapidly prototyping and validating new ideas through code. I also have experience managing multiple software teams and scaling businesses to millions of dollars. My family and I live in San Jose. I'm always interested in meeting smart people and learning about new opportunities. Please reach out through Email or LinkedIn.

My work history includes:

• Instrumentl: Grant software for non profits.
• ToolWall The first digital organizer for your physical tools.
• Walker & Company: Health and beauty products for people of color, acquired by P&G in 2018.
• Koding: Modern development environment, now shutdown.
• MajesticMedia: A design and development agency, acquired.
• TwitLens: Photosharing site for Twitter, also acquired.

These days I write Ruby and Javascript professionally and Go for fun. My current/past interests include AI, photography, woodworking, CNCs to name a few.

Open Source Projects

• bitesized: Redis bitmap powered analytics in Go.
• runeio: Library that provides functions for manipulating runes in Go.
• planebot: A bot that connects you to actions to help the environment.
• open_auth2: Thin OAuth2 wrapper written on top of Faraday in Ruby.
• sfsbook: A repository for the reduce violence against women in SF project in Ruby.
• caltrain-realtime: Realtime train timings for various train stations in both directions in Go.
• adler32: Just a small library for calculating adler32 checksum in Go.
• go-yamlconfig: Small library for parsing (ala Rails) yaml config files in Go.
• peak: Anamoly detection service for your metrics in Ruby.
• bitlang: Half finished programming language in Go.

Blog Posts

• 20 Mar 2023 » This blog post was generated by ChatGPT
• 20 Aug 2020 » ALERTWildfire
• 13 Jul 2020 » Dokku powered personal hub
• 13 Mar 2019 » sqlite3.h Is Missing When Doing 'gem install sqlite3' In Mojave OSX
• 17 Feb 2018 » Week-07-links
• 16 Jan 2018 » Challenge - use api docs more than Google or Stackoverflow
• 23 Oct 2016 » Programming Arduino with Assembly
• 28 May 2016 » Single vs Double dash in cli args
• 25 May 2016 » Links
• 05 Sep 2015 » The 1 in cat(1)
• 31 Aug 2015 » Links
• 31 Aug 2015 » Here we go again
• 22 Apr 2015 » Consistent hashing, a guide & Go library