PeterFein
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Peter Fein
Self appointed caretaker of Concurrency sub-community.
Résumé
I excel at using computers to solve real-world problems. I bridge the divide between developers and everyone else. I help ideas take form and processes improve. I hack Python.
Skills
Python expert (7 years): hacking & optimization, testing, debugging, runtime analysis, metaprogramming
experienced in systems architecture, debugging & analysis
- clear code organization, problem research and specification
- distributed computing: concurrency, network programming
- deep understanding of HTTP and RESTful architecture
- machine learning and full text search
- storage technologies: SQL, ORMs, NoSQL
- regular expressions and text processing
- familiar with UNIX / Linux internals
- basic system administration
some HTML & CSS
- bicycle maintenance and repair
- cook a tasty dinner
Open Source
I regularly attend and present at ChiPy and PyCon
Software
PlayerPiano: tool for giving better presentations using an interactive shell
Twiggy: a more Pythonic logger
Factory: object-oriented approach to partial function application (currying)
Employment History
CTO Juju.com 2004-2009, telecommute
- built job search engine from prototype to millions of unique users/month
- managed a team of 5 in a virtual office environment, using best practice startup techniques
- oversaw several redesigns and major functionality additions
made most major architectural decisions, wrote & maintained a large portion of code
codebase >100K lines, almost entirely in Python
helped clarify and develop business goals & strategy, designed & implemented technical solutions
Full Resume
Education
Continuing
David Beazley's small, intense classes explore advanced programming techniques and the inner workings of Python.
- Python Concurrency Workshop - April 2009
- Python 3 I/0 - February 2009
- Jamming with Django - June 2010
- Advanced Python Mastery - August 2010
University of Chicago 1996-2000
- B.A. Economics
- B.A. Computer Science