I love languages, programming languages, (I am terrible at human languages).  I code mostly in Java although that is quickly changing to Kotlin.

My employment and main project is DFStudio.  We are small team building a big product for big companies.  The Application deals with tens of millions of super high resolution photos for the Entertainment industry.   We have scaled up from a few servers to hundreds using AWS.

I build the infrastructure layer, and work to make the application code as declarative as possible.  Services enforce their correct use, making the core uses case obvious, and straight forward.

Specialties

Java, Kotlin, Oracle, Postgres, DynamoDB, AWS;
Solr, Jetty, Struts, Velocity, Freemarker;
Perl, Python, Ruby, PL/SQL

Experience

DigitalFusion CTI: (2007 – Present) Principal Engineer

Responsible for architecture and design of DfStudio. Implemented distributed asynchronous task engine; Dependency injection framework; and a Loosely-coupled event pub-sub system. Brought software platform to AWS.

DfStudio software provides asset acquisition, approval and delivery for major media corporations like Fox, 20th Century, Sony, Warner Brother, A&E Networks, and IFC.

A2Z (Amazon.com): (2005 – 2007) Software Engineer

Designed and implemented ingestion pipeline to transcode and consolidate data into amazon mp3 music service.  Wrote infrastructure layer, and model core database.

OnStation: (2002 – 2005) Software Engineer