Phil Christensen

140 17th St. #18
Brooklyn, NY 11215
C (914) 255-7533

profile

Detail-oriented engineer and open source expert seeks position pushing technical boundaries. Significant experience developing custom networking protocols, business applications, including process automation and database design.

skills

apache applescript asterisk bash bind boxee c++ c clojure darwin streaming server debian django drupal emacs firefox extensions freebsd google app engine grep java ldap lucene mac os x mysql objective c open id perl php postfix postgres python red hat ruby sed shibboleth solaris sphinx sqlite subversion twisted ubuntu vi

professional guitarist, composer, and audio engineer.

github

Many projects and code examples available at my github profile:

https://github.com/philchristensen

repositories (click me!)

GitHub repositories containing various small and large-scale projects:

gh-profile – creates a default github user page for your account
philchristensen.github.com – github homepage
antioch – A highly-customizable, scalable game server for creating virtual worlds.
karma-test – testing karma calculation functions
svn-color – a wrapper script to colorize SVN output
dot-files – my dotfiles
watchmaker – watch a directory for changes and run a command....ha, turns out `watch make` is good enough for my needs...
bash-functions – various useful helper functions
mynock – RSS Torrent feed downloader
modu – modu is a high-level toolkit for building database-driven web applications in Python.
osqa-json – fork of osqa with a JSON user feed and custom authentication
life – Come on, every good programmer has written a Life game.
dist – a tool for deploying files to multiple servers over ssh
phylo – a web-based open-source media center
jam2 – a drupal module for independent musicians
gigkeeper – modu-based library for creating websites for independent musicians
feedme – a modu-based website for creating custom RSS feeds with regex patterns
options-pm – Options - A perl module to provide better support for command-line option parsing, hopefully better than GetOpts.
minesweeper – My Flash <-> AppEngine minesweeper clone
txOpenID – Example implementation of the OpenID Provider spec using Twisted.

gists (click me!)

Short code snippets useful for future development or experimentation:

experience (click me!)

Sr. Software Engineer, Freelancers Union; Brooklyn, NY — March 2011 - present

Restructured developer operations: installed and administered workflows for Jira-based task management system used company-wide, designed and implemented new Django infrastructure including unit and integration tests, static analysis, and one-click deployment to testing and production environments using Fabric and Puppet.
Developed Contract Creator tool for creation of custom contracts for freelance employees, downloadable as PDF or RTF format documents.
Designed and implemented datamodel, administration interface, and all front-end buildout for 2012 Open Enrollment plan pages.

Backend Developer, OMGPOP; New York, NY — February 2011 - March 2011

Comitted and deployed product features on first day with no prior Ruby or Merb experience
Redesigned game product database administration interface to improve usability and efficiency
Implemented role-based permissions system for internal administration tool

Senior Programmer, Anthology of Recorded Music; New York, NY — May 2007 - February 2011

Designed and developed ground-up rewrite of the DRAM Online audio streaming service.
Implemented custom access module for Darwin Streaming Server, AJAX-enhanced administration interface, application-level support for Shibboleth authentication, and robust import workflow mechanism for importing new audio collections.
Trained and managed junior developer through development of new Sphinx-powered search tool, UnAPI metadata support, and other projects.

Senior Programmer, Reflexions Data; White Plains, NY — December 2004 - May 2007

Designed and developed a custom distribution of the Drupal CMS aimed towards authors of literary works. Made customizations to enable serving 1600+ sites from a single database.
Designed and coordinated development on a multiuser presentation platform; client/server software coordinated the display of presentation data on 50 to 100 clients with interactive features and extensive metrics and reporting.
Primary system administrator for production and development machines, office networking, Asterisk VOIP system, custom backup server, Postfix mail servers, and Plesk administration

Programmer, Farechase Inc./Yahoo! Inc.; New York, NY — April 2004 - August 2004

Participated in maintenance and development of new and existing data retrievers for FareChaser travel search tool.
Created Perl framework of harvesting tools, using WWW::Mechanize and HTML::TreeBuilder, including a fail-safe retriever shell to provide additional flexibility over existing implementation.
Farechase sold to Yahoo! in July of 2004; left to pursue graduate degree.

Lead Programmer, RESCUECOM, Corp.; Syracuse, NY — August 2003 - April 2004

BlackBerry mobile development, J2ME, fixed-point math

education (click me!)

State University of New York at Purchase — Studio Composition MFA — Fall 2004 - Spring 2006
State University of New York at Oswego — Music BA — Fall 1997 - Summer 2001

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