About Me

I'm a web engineer living and working in San Francisco, CA

I work for Mochi Media, a pretty awesome company that's developed an Ad Network for Flash games. I help keep the web front-end stuff working and occasionally hack on other things that are cool, interesting or just have to be done so things stay running. My love of Python (the programming language) was what brought me here and now I get to work for one of the coolest startups in the Bay Area. We don't have Aeron chairs and we just sold our ping-pong table. But we do occasionally play Rock Band and watch Arrested Development over lunch.

My language of choice is Python for pretty much everything. I've dabbled here at Mochi with Erlang writing collaborative filters, but we've got a lot of Erlang skill here (see: MochiWeb, egeoip, eswf) and I do what I can.

In April of 2008 I got married to Staci, aka girljournalist who is one of the best people ever to live and explore a city with. Together we've tackled Lawrence (KS), Knoxville (TN), New York and now San Francisco. We're both self proclaimed foodies who love mass transportation so San Francisco seems like the best idea ever. We live with our three year old monster, Cody.

In 2004 I got my pilot's license at Johnson County Executive Airport, or KOJC to those in the know. I worked the Flight School's dispatch desk and did anything and everything that involved the aircraft there. I flew a lot of different airplanes, met a lot of cool people and flew for a lot of $100 hamburgers. I don't go flying here in the Bay Area that much, but I am a member of the excellent West Valley Flying Club and my dad owns a Cherokee 150 — N483FL.

This site is built on Django 1.0, with pieces cobbled from here and there. Hosting is on SliceHost. Served by nginx and Spawning.