Joshua Michael

Senior Application Developer, Cloud Expert,

System Administrator, Web Designer, Mobile Application Developer

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joshua@chex.io (509)-731-3626

Profile

Over a decade of experience building scalable applications using a wide variety of languages and platforms. Intimately familiar with over ten programming languages.

Skills

Web Design

Skilled with the UI/UX design that keeps users coming back. Using the twitter Bootstrap css, I’m able to churn out beautiful, responsive HTML5 designs quickly and to spec, without fuss.
Database Administration

Extensive experience with both traditional relational databases and modern NoSQL stores. Familiar with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL (T-SQL), SQLite, CouchDB, MongoDB, Couchbase, Amazon’s SimpleDB (NoSQL for the cloud), and Elastic Search.
Application Development

Capable in a variety of web frameworks from Django (Python), CakePHP (PHP), Zend (PHP), Express (NodeJS), Web.py (Python), Rails (Ruby), and WebSharper / ASP.NET WVC (F#/C#). Can write desktop applications in WPF (.NET) and GTK (Python / C).
Systems Administration

Experienced in a wide variety of GNU / Linux distributions: Gentoo, ArchLinux, Debian (Including Ubuntu), and RHEL/CentOS. Very familiar with managing virtual environments in Xen, Hyper-V, ESXi, and KVM. Capable of handling network filtering (iptabes or ufw), extremely familiar with security hardening public facing boxes. 5+ years experience administrating Microsoft Windows servers. Server 2005, 2008, and 2012.
Mobile Development

4 years experience developing applications for both iOS and Android.

Languages

HTML5/ CSS
Javascript (including Node.js)
PHP
Python
Erlang
Haskell
Objective-C (iPhone/iPad app development)
Java (Android development)
Bash / ZSH (Linux shells)
PowerShell (Windows administration)

Experience

Scottrageous Inc.: PHP Developer, Sysadmin 2006-2007 Responsible for programming backend systems to client websites that my senior manager brought in. Setup and maintained a Debian server throughout the duration of my job and gained valuable experience with installing/configuring freely available CMS or blog systems like Drupal and Wordpress. Managed my own hours and billing.
Axiom Technologies: Technical Support, Computer Repair, Sysadmin October 2007-August 2008 Navigated to client offices and houses billing hourly. Incredibly dynamic job that dealt with everything from dead network cards to faulty CPUs. I managed our hosting services in the off duty time and scored a 413 day uptime on one of my servers there. I organized the office and developed an inventory system in my spare time.

Joshua Michael — joshua@chex.io — (509) 731-3626