Peter Fein

I wear pants.

Self appointed caretaker of Concurrency sub-community.

Résumé

I excel at using computers to solve real-world problems. I bridge the divide between developers and everyone else. I help ideas take form and processes improve. I hack Python.

Skills

• Python expert (7 years): hacking & optimization, testing, debugging, runtime analysis, metaprogramming

• experienced in systems architecture, debugging & analysis

• clear code organization, problem research and specification
• distributed computing: concurrency, network programming
• deep understanding of HTTP and RESTful architecture
• machine learning and full text search
• storage technologies: SQL, ORMs, NoSQL
• regular expressions and text processing
• familiar with UNIX / Linux internals
• basic system administration

• some HTML & CSS

• bicycle maintenance and repair
• cook a tasty dinner

Open Source

I regularly attend and present at ChiPy and PyCon

Software

• PlayerPiano: tool for giving better presentations using an interactive shell

• Twiggy: a more Pythonic logger

• Factory: object-oriented approach to partial function application (currying)

• More Python Software

Employment History

CTO Juju.com 2004-2009, telecommute

• built job search engine from prototype to millions of unique users/month
• managed a team of 5 in a virtual office environment, using best practice startup techniques
• oversaw several redesigns and major functionality additions

• made most major architectural decisions, wrote & maintained a large portion of code

• codebase >100K lines, almost entirely in Python

• helped clarify and develop business goals & strategy, designed & implemented technical solutions

Full Resume

My Python Resume

Education

Continuing

David Beazley's small, intense classes explore advanced programming techniques and the inner workings of Python.

• Python Concurrency Workshop - April 2009
• Python 3 I/0 - February 2009
• Jamming with Django - June 2010
• Advanced Python Mastery - August 2010

University of Chicago 1996-2000

• B.A. Economics
• B.A. Computer Science

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