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Stack Exchange

Stack Exchange was the first community I really got involved in, and it's where a lot of my opinions and experience about moderation come from. I strongly believe in Stack Exchange's approach to moderation, and really appreciate the knowledge and skill of the moderators, users, and community managers I've gotten to see at work there.

♦ CSEducators Moderator

Community Moderator on Computer Science Educators Stack Exchange.

Charcoal SE: Metasmoke Developer

Charcoal HQ is a group of Stack Exchange users dedicated to handling spam, trolling, and rude/abusive content on the Stack Exchange network. I work(ed) on metasmoke, the web UI and dashboard for our chat bot, Smoke Detector. More recently, I've been less active, but I would like to get involved again if I get the time and motivation :)

Stack Exchange RubyGems

Developed rubygems ChatX, se-realtime, and se-api, for interacting with chat, the realtime websocket, and the API respectively.

IPS Comment Bot: Developer

Created and developed a bot to detect comments that did not meet community standards on Interpersonal Skills Stack Exchange.

Programming

GitHub

predis

High performance data structure store designed to function similarly to redis.

Areas of Interest / Expertise

Web Development: This is how I started programming, I work primarily on backend, although I do some front end (i.e. this site (which is actually CSS only!)). I work primarily in Ruby on Rails, but I'm pretty flexible
Compilers & Programming Languages: Designing, implementing, and working in interesting programming languages is always a lot of fun! Each language has a place, although my favorites and ruby, haskell, C, and rust
High Performance / Low Level Programming: I really enjoy getting very close to the metal and learning how things work on as close to a hardware level as possible. While I know that performance isn't always something that needs to be aggressively optimized, it's a fun thing to play with if I get the chance
Parallel Programming: I absolutely love working with atomics and parallel data structures, particularly lock free programming when I can, although occasionally the power of CAS isn't strong enough, so I have to use locking :(
Formal Language Theory: NFAs, DFAs, Turing Machines, all kinds of automata are cool as heck and are fun to think about and play with.

Technical Theater

There's a limited amount I can talk about without sharing identifiable information, so I'm going to try and keep it vague :)

Theatrical Electrician

I've worked in lighting (primarily as a master electrician) for over 5 years, on productions of almost every scale, ranging from houses that seat thousands to houses that seat 20. I've learned to enjoy both in different ways, although I do like to have fancier toys to play with if the opportunity arises :P

Scenic Carpentry

I've also done a significant quantity of scenic carpentry. I'm a perfectly capable carpenter and have significant experience under my belt, although I have a slight preference for lighting. Someday, I'd like to learn the finer aspects of woodworking!

Twitch

Quick note, I'm not going to be too specific because I don't want you to hunt down the channels I'm active in, please don't try, thanks :)

Moderation

Recently joined my first mod team and I'm having a great time!

NightBot

I've enjoyed playing with nightbot and have helped Gemhunter178 with their hosting for large nightbot commands and a bit of refactoring! I've also been doing a bit of command making myself, although I'm still very much learning.

BTTV

Submitted a patch to BTTV to add support for disabling native emotes. Potentially more work to come!

Bot Building

Recently I've been playing around a bit with twitch analytics, and I hope to be able to produce some interesting results or bots soon™! Feel free to reach out if you're interested in talking about ideas or giving me tips or anything!