Will Holcomb
1151 White Top Road
Bluff City, TN 37618
Threespot Media
806 7th St NW, Suite 201 
Washington, DC 20001

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing in response to the posting from idealist.org for a software engineer. I have almost twenty years of development experience in a variety of languages, and am hunting for an opportunity to leverage those skills to do social good.

There's a quote by Newton about the capabilities of scientists being grounded in the work that came before, and from my time as a Peace Corps volunteer to working with the Marijuana Policy Project, I've sought positions where my labors contribute to the accumulation of human progress.

I've been a Rails developer for about seven years now. My work has run the gamut from straightforward forms & data collection, to continually running batch jobs correlating the prices & ranks of tens of thousands of products on Amazon, to the conversion of a youth soccer picture sharing application to one for general purpose social networking.

Architecturally, my favorite project was Groupdini which utilized API Blueprint to disconnect the development concerns of the back-end 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.

If you would like 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.

Will Holcomb