About Me

What to say? I'm a 26-year-old hacker who's done a variety of work; I've worn the hats of software engineer, system administrator, network engineer, penetration tester, and web developer. I live in the Northern Sierras, and, yes, I love to snowboard. Reno and Tahoe are great in a lot of ways, and I'm happy to live here.

I'm a rabid fan of Python and have been using it for about 7 years now. For the past year or so, I've been dabbling in the remarkable spring of Python frameworks of late and have settled on Django as my 'de facto web tool belt.' I like it for a variety of reasons; however, I do like Pylons as well and am currently looking for a modest-sized project to occupy my time.

I'm also fluent in C, Perl, Lisp (Scheme, really), Smalltalk, JavaScript, and PHP, along with other, more minor and niche languages. I'm vocal with my criticisms of PHP; the lack of namespaces, the existing, cluttered, global namespace, the usage of builtin functions rather than language semantics as idioms, and more -- it can be extremely annoying.

I'm also a veteran of both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. I spent most of my time on the ground with an aggressive small unit reconnaissance team (I was a 19 Delta).

Specialties

C, Python, PHP, Perl, Lisp, JavaScript, Smalltalk, Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Tru64, Web Development, Network Security, Network Engineering, Systems Engineering