Technologies

• Ruby via Ruby on Rails (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8) and Sinatra
• Go
• Elixir and Phoenix
• JavaScript (ES5 and ES2015+) and CoffeeScript
• React and VueJS, also some Ember
• SQL with PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Redis including Resque and Sidekiq
• DCVS with Git and GitHub/GitLab
• TDD and BDD with RSpec, Minitest, and ExUnit
• HTML5 and CSS3
• Static sites with Jekyll and GatsbyJS
• Chatops via Hubot, Lita, and Hedwig
• Heroku
• AWS (mostly S3, EC2, Route53, and CloudFront)
• Wordpress

Exploring

• Novel writing

Activities

• Mentor at the Nashville Software School
• Former (4-year) Co-Organizer of the Nashville Software Beginners Meetup
• Speaker at Dreamforce '17: Heroku Flow
• Speaker: I'll take Lita for $500: Ruby and Chatops
• Speaker at Nodevember '15: From the Ash: PhoenixJS and the Phoenix Framework
• Speaker at Nodevember '14: Undefined is not a Function: What the Most Common Errors in JavaScript Actually Mean
• Speaker: Only What Non-Developers Need to Know about Git and Github
• Speaker: The Ruby Object Model
• DISH Conference panelist 2014

Employment

• GitHub (2019 - Present)
  • Staff Software Engineering Manager, Planning and Tracking
• Heroku (2015 - 2019)
  • Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Finance and Business Instrumentation
  • Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Marketing Web Operations
• Centresource Interactive Agency (2013 - 2015)
  • Developer
• Max Beizer Music (2005 - Present)
  • Songwriter, Singer, Musician, CEO, Janitor

Education

• Nashville Software School (June 2012 - December 2012)
  • cohort one
• Vanderbilt University (2002 - 2006)
  • Bachelor of Arts, Psychology

Fascinations

• Fatherhood
• Being married to my best friend
• Fender guitars and amplifiers
• Arsenal FC