About Me
I'm an award-winning full-stack developer with over 17 years of experience who specializes in helping media companies grow their audiences by improving cross-platform content delivery.
I believe the web should be fast, open, and accessible to anyone, anywhere.
Specialties
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Media Optimization & Processing
Building scalable systems for near-lossless optimization and processing of images, video, and user-generated content.
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Rock-Solid Publishing
Decoupling published content from back-end systems and authoring tools for fast, distributed content delivery.
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Payment Soloutions
Developing purchasing platforms on top of Stripe, including one-time purchases, and more robust and flexible subscription billing than Stripe's default offerings.
Awesome Projects, Great Companies
I've been fortunate enough to work on some amazing projects with some great companies over the years. Many of these were direct client relationships, others are projects I worked closely on or managed while consulting through other agencies.
- StickyAlbums
- Time, Inc.
- People Magazine
- Disney
- Mashable, Inc.
- The Urban Institute
- The Image Group
- Morehead State University
- Baseball Youth Magazine
- The Travel Channel
Podcast
I host a weekly podcast with Jonathan Stark called Terrifying Robot Dog in which we talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world.
Fun Projects
From The Blog
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Now It's Perfect
I'm not even going to pretend anymore. I'm going full nerd. My three year quest for the perfect bag is complete...
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Stickers! On my keyboard!
I got a big pile of stickers in the mail today. Let's have some fun!...
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Cable Management FTW
Standing desks are a pain to cable manage, especially when they're put together backwards (oops). I've been meaning to do this forever...
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Faerie Forest
Tonight I did a small painting - 10x8 Acrylic on canvas board. I haven't painted in a while and I quite like how it turned out...