Will Holcomb 755 Faraday Place NE Washington, DC 20017
Optoro 702 H Street NW, #200 Washington, DC 20001
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing in response to the posting from your website for a software engineer. I have more than ten years of development experience in a variety of languages and would bring valuable skills to the position.
I have been doing development in Rails for about seven years now. My work has run the gamut from Beverage Industries inventory and bidding management system which was relatively straightforward interface generation and database management to Aphid Industries batch queries to Amazon APIs top collect, chart, and rank pricing and sales data for tens of thousands of products.
Architecturally, my favorite project was Groupdini which utilized API Blueprint to disconnect the development concerns of the backend from four different web and mobile interfaces. That development was test driven which proved invaluable when doing complex refactoring as well as enabling continuous deployment to staging.
Javascript-wise, I have been working with it since before the arrival of jQuery. I've done dozens of apps of various complexities from a scheduling system in D3, to a Set-training interface in SVG, to the DHTML conversion of a PowerPoint slideshow highlighting the service of my Peace Corps cadre.
I loaded Slackware from floppies in ~1997 as my inaugural Linux distribution, and Linux is far and away my operating system of choice. Ubuntu includes code I wrote as parts of both python (multipart post handling) and java (pdf generation) systems.
I have a long-standing interest in resource allocation and would very much being a part of helping Optoro both maximize client and consumer satisfaction.
If you you need any additional information, please contact me at will@dhappy.org or see my résumé at cv.himinbi.org.
Thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you.