Entitlement Team

I manage large scale web applications that deal with many terabytes of image data as well as 20 million+ database records. My job is to make sure that things keep running smoothly, bugs get debugged, improvements get made, and architecturally sound decisions get made. I also make sure clients using our API have the features they need.

DevOps for the Ancestry DNA teams

contributed to a number of modules, Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Moose, Form::Sensible, and own Form::Sensible::Reflector::DBIC, and co-maintain Catalyst::View::Email, DBIx::Class::Ordered::Tree::MatPath

I work in developer operations, maintaining applications and writing new applications to provide web services for dealing with various data transport and messaging needs within company web applications.

Develop perl based software to manage social network trending statistics.

Built an application to act as a proxy between a front facing php web application and a storage file system that handles upwards of 6,000 file uploads a day via the API that handles XML, JSON and plain HTTP data. Built using Catalyst and Plack. - wmcglobal.comManaged a high traffic, enterprise level web application written in Ruby on Rails. This consisted of migrating that application to its current server, setting up a staging and production server from the ground up (SVN for version control and deployment management, Postgres database, nginx+mod_rails for the Ruby on Rails application) - gohuman.comDebugged and upgraded many things so that the application would run smoothly with up to date Postgres. - gohuman.comAdded features such as "Embed your intro video" and subscription levels for "Send this site to a friend", as well as fixed many "zero hour" bugs that came up amidst deployment.Set up a MojoMojo wiki with custom CSS/templating for a major communications company. - wmcglobal.comEnabled database logging features through out a very large PHP codebase that tracked the number of reports being "passed" or "failed" after an initial audit. - wmcglobal.comSet up MovableType pro and customized templates for a high traffic and respected technology blog. - catalyzed.orgSet up MojoMojo wiki running on FastCGI+varnish for caching for code snippets and examples. - catalyzed.org

Managed and wrote a database and file data migration script in Perl to move data from a previously used OpenInteract application to a new Catalyst+DBIx::Class web application backed by MySQL and MogileFS.Built a search engine feature that uses Data::SearchEngine and DBIx::Class to search based on racing class types, race tracks, and other such race track and car class based data.Wrote a geocoding feature that calculates the distance of a track from a given city name or zip code and returns tracks within a chosen radius (5, 10, 15 miles etc) of city/zip code based on Geo::Coder and DBIx::ClassImplemented a materialized path structure for managing virtual directories for website assets and file data in the database based upon DBIx::Class::Tree::Ordered::MaterializedPath, allowing administrators to have a file system view of website assets.

Web application development using Perl's Catalyst web framework, DBIx::Class, Template::Toolkit, lighttpd+fastcgi, and mysql as a database backend. Added multiple ajax features and extended the application's API to include JSON+RESTful webservices. Helped reorganize the subversion structure so deployments could be rolled out easier.

Cleaned up a very large code base for the Catalyst::Helper API for the Catalyst framework. (Code can be viewed in the helperrefactor, moosifyapi and better_scripts branches the Catalyst code repository [http://dev.catalystframework.org/svnweb/Catalyst/])Wrote many many many tests to make sure new features matched up with old features, and many more tests for newly implemented featuresMoved all the Template::Toolkit data and image data out of the DATA portion of Catalyst::Helper and into a more sane File::ShareDir set up so that developers could create their helpers in a much easier fashion.