As a technology survivalist - My career path has taken me through the implementation of many different system layers; including firmware, TSRs, device drivers, Operating Systems, desktop apps, webapps, daemons, database, sysadmin, disaster recovery, and various other systems and services; giving me full stack awareness. While I have excelled as a programmer architect I always focus on the pragmatic as well as the business and customer side effects.I have worked on, or for, many brand name projects - SurePay, Klarna/Kreditor, BigB, PayDay loans, Nutrio, Snap Gear, Universal Command Center, Documentum, DocumentMall, BillPay, WildCard, ValueLink, Hospitality Plus, OS/2, Workplace OS, AIX, Artic CoProcessor, IBM single board computers for MSD, Transec Systems, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, FSA/HSA, medical eligibility, Shell Oil, BlockBuster, RBSLynk, Global, First Data Resources, Commonwealth, and others.In addition to being a skilled programmer and system architect I have also managed teams - Project management, scheduling, estimation and resource allocation, team building, delegation, interview new hires, performance reviews, training and VC presentations, status reports, and dreadful layoffs.Deliverables have been shrink wrapped and service oriented in various vertical markets - hardware manufacturing, health care and software generated meal planning, hospitality, maintenance, inventory, VOIP and VOIP arbitrage, prepaid & giftcard issuing and other specialty systems, document management, bill pay, centralized network hardware management, full stack POS including acquirer gateway, due diligence, source code audit and PCI-DSS audit.Specialties: Recent technology focus has been on: Python, perl, go, erlang, SQL, Java, Git, Mercurial, Linux, OpenBSD, ZeroMQ, Beanstalkd, Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, Riak, TornadoWeb, Django, Google App Engine, Mojolicious, Rails, PCI-DSS and Agile. However my experience goes much deeper when paired with the individual projects and their outcome. Lastly, I believe in continuing education and I spend appreciable time learning new languages, frameworks and processes.