Hi!  I’m ZPH and ZPH.

I enjoy writing Ruby, using the commandline, and dabbling with DBs (Hi Postgresql and Mongo!).  Ruby led me to meet Sinatra, Rails and a whole slew of other tools.  I’m a Linux enthusiast for my web and home servers and I realized that resistance is futile, so I bought a MacBook Air laptop.  (One day I’ll be re-united with a good quality Linux laptop.)

My latest projects are as follows:

• Re-write and expansion of Trello-archiver.  Added TSV and CSV exports.  Cleaned up code and added extra OO.
• Wrote internal software tool using Sinatra, Google Maps, PDFKit, and Docx_templating to speed up repetitive tasks at work.  Software gathers reports from various Gov’t agencies and converts them into PDFs.  It then web-scrapes data from agency and inserts it into Word Docx templates.
• Wrote internal software tool using Rails, Tire/ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Mongo_mapper, and a whole lot of Mechanize.  Tool web-scraped and properly ordered data into appropriate fields.  Rails app serves up the data and Tire allows for powerful text searching.
• Automated Industry News notifications for field offices.  Involved web-scraping Ruby code to gather news articles and convert them to PDF.  Tool then sent messages out to Field Managers with weekly updates.
• Setting up a home server based on Arch Linux and serving files off of ZFS with its yummy yummy redundant storage.
• Home Automation using Z-wave protocol devices.

As for the software stack that I’ve grown to know and love:

• Ruby (MRI & JRUBY)
• VIM
• Rspec, Minitest, Pry
• Ruby on Rails / Sinatra
• OSX & Linux (Debian, Ubuntu & Arch)
• Linux (POSIX Compliant) Commandline Tools
• MySQL, Postgresql, and MongoDB
• Apache, Nginx, Varnish
• Amazon EC2, S3
• Virtual Private Servers
• QGIS & ArcGIS – GIS Mapping Software

For the software that’s not part of my programming environment:

I work in a non-software development field by day and serenade Ruby at night.

I’m very fortunate to be happily employed but I’m open to hearing about Ruby and Ruby on Rails opportunities.

-ZPH <[email protected]>

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