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Nathan F

Polyglot looking to return to Java

Occupation:

Programmer

Location:

San Lorenzo, CA

Education Level:

Bachelor

Will Relocate:

YES

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I am first and foremost a Java developer, doesn't matter what it is, as long as it's written Java. Over the last year and a half, I've learned Ruby on Rails and Python on Django. However, I miss Java and want very much to find to a challenging role where my strengths can be utilized.

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COMPANY POSITION HELD DATES WORKED

(Confidential) (Confidential) 3/2004 - Present
ACCESS Systems America, Inc. (Confidential) 8/2002 - 6/2003
Geoworks Corp. (Confidential) 6/1996 - 2/2002
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SCHOOL MAJOR YEAR DEGREE

Pennsylvania State University Computer Science 1996 Bachelor Degree
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Blog High Scalability media url Articles about building scalable software stacks for web sites.
Book Release It! media url Anecdotes for developing production-ready software, where writing the code is a small part of the work you'll face.

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Highlights:

Filed a patent for undo/redo manager in NetBeans IDE.

Companies I like:

Yahoo, start-ups using Java, ideally Hadoop.

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Getting ready for release

Our project is finally in the last days before it's public release. We've been at this for 18 months now. It's been a long slog. I personally rewro...

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For Project Kenai I am the source code management guy, working with Subversion and Mercurial, initially in Ruby and later with Python. I wrote the RESTful web service to provide an interface to source code repositories.
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