I'm available for contract work in Rails, iPhone apps, general architecture, sysadmin and scaling web sites.

email: my full name at gmail

Things I've done recently

- Published an iPhone app; Objective C and backend Ruby on Rails web services.

- Scaled a legacy PHP application to 1,000 reqs/sec; push-button deploys, deep live code metrics; mysql replication, memcached, Akamai, S3.

- Built a 140-machine web cluster; push-button hardware provisioning, monitoring, live recovery.

- Trained employees in Agile coding practices.

- Ported a commercial C++ network server (Jaxer) to Solaris.

- Recent open source: iphone-scripts, ruby-lib, summarize.