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title: "About"
description: "This is what I do."
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  <p>
    I build custom web applications for small businesses and startups. I handle everything from
    analyzing business requirements to app development and hosting.
  </p>

  <h2>Expertise</h2>
  <ul>
    <li>Turning business requirements into a clean, simple web app</li>
    <li>Ruby + Rails</li>
    <li>CSS / SCSS</li>
    <li>Lightweight front-end JS with jQuery</li>
    <li>Single page app with React/Relay</li>
    <li>API development</li>
    <li>Web Sockets and Pub/Sub with Elixir / Phoenix</li>
    <li>Elastic Search</li>
    <li>Information Security</li>
    <li>Deployment and management of AWS infrastructure</li>
  </ul>

  <h2>History</h2>
  <p>
    I've been writing software since I was in grade school, continually evolving my skills.
    Some stops along the way:
  </p>
  <ul>
    <li>Picking apart the Gorrilas.bat file in DOS to make bigger explosions - 1990</li>
    <li>Visual Basic to draw ascii art on AOL - 1992</li>
    <li>C and C++ and Introduction to Linux - 1993</li>
    <li>Introduction to higher level programming languages like SmallTalk - 1994</li>
    <li>PERL and CGI for Web Applications - 1995</li>

    <li>... To be continued</li>
  </ul>
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