Paul Makepeace

BA, MA Maths, Computer Science, Electronic Engineering
Resident in San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone: [on request]
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March 2013: I am currently available for work!

Education

Cambridge University: MA Maths, Computer Science, EIST (Electronic and
Information Systems)

Skills: Programming Languages

             Language              Period Used Last Used
Ruby (1.8 & 1.9), Rails (3.1, 3.2) 1 year      Mar 2013
Perl (4.036 - 5.10.1)              10+ years   Mar 2013
Python                             4 years     Mar 2013
JavaScript                         6 years     Mar 2013
C                                  3 years     2008
HTML (v2.0 - 4.01                  10+ years   Mar 2013
& XHTML 1.0 + CSS2)
SQL (see below)                    10+ years   Mar 2013
Unix tools: sh, sed, awk, etc      10+ years   Mar 2013
Java                               1 year      May 2011
ML, Prolog, C++                    Hobby       May 1995

Skills: Environments

         Environment                          Period Used                 Last
                                                                          Used
Unix:                          I have been professionally hosting        Mar
Linux (Debian, SuSE, RedHat),  Debian-based servers since 1999.          2013
Solaris
Internet development: HTML5,   10+ years                                 Mar
JavaScript, SSH, etc                                                     2013
Database:                      10+ years                                 Mar
MySQL & PostgreSQL                                                       2013

Employment

Client, Area    Related site     Period                 Summary
Badger &                                 Product design, direction. Full stack
BountySource Badger &            02/2012 from Linux kernel tweaking, automated
San          BountySource        -       deployment with Puppet, through Ruby,
Francisco,                       03/2013 Rails to a fully JavaScript frontend.
US
                                         Primarily responsible for data
                                 01/2011 cleaning and converting partner
Artfinder    Artfinder           -       datasets into our schema. Python,
London, UK                       08/2011 Django, PostgreSQL, OpenRefine.
                                         Exposure to redis, sentry, EC2,
                                         Elastic Search.
Open Refine                      03/2011 Contributor to the mailing list and
(n?e         OpenRefine          -       codebase committer. Java, Python, DOS
OpenRefine;                      Present (!). Presented on OpenRefine at
Open Source)                             OpenTech 2011.
                                         Gmail infrastructure and oncall
Google                           06/2006 production operation. Software
Dublin,      Google, Ireland     -       development for monitoring, debugging,
Ireland                          05/2009 logging, and deployments. Python,
                                         Perl, JavaScript, PHP.
                                         Chief software architect and developer
Investor                         12/2004 then CTO designing news aggregation
Dynamics     Investor Dynamics   -       and analysis. Perl, Catalyst,
London, UK                       08/2010 DBIx::Class, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL,
                                         XML
BBC          BBC New Media &     09/2005 Developer on team for internal
London, UK   Technology          -       publishing/programme modelling
                                 06/2006 project. Perl, Catalyst, ORM, SQLite
Urban                            03/2004 Lead software developer implementing
Tapestries   Urban Tapestries    -       Apache/mod_perl XMLRPC proxy
London, UK                       07/2004
Proboscis                        03/2004 Took on Proboscis's several sites onto
hosting      Proboscis           -       a dedicated server as my largest
London, UK                       06/2004 hosting client.
                                         Migrate LDAP services from Omnes to
Schlumberger                     02/1999 Schlumberger; build, install,
Omnes        (www.omnes.slb.com) -       security, backup for LDAP Solaris
Houston, TX                      10/1999 servers; advanced mail server
                                         development & configuration

Detail

For those interested in the technical specifics of these projects and my roles
in them, I have provided more detail.

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