I am a web technology consultant based in San Francisco, CA. Through my company, Iteration Labs, LLC, I specialize in helping organizations to leverage emerging web technologies such as Ruby on Rails, machine learning / artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and structured web crawling.
My recent projects include SelectorGadget and Parselets.com, two tools for better structured data extraction on the web. I have also created a database of public parks, a popular online free stuff site, and have worked on some casual research projects.
Please contact me to discuss my work and how I can collaborate with you.
I am currently consulting with a couple of companies through Pivotal Labs, a Ruby on Rails consulting company in San Francisco. I also maintain relationships with a few other clients.
Until Oct. 2008, I worked as a software engineer at CastTV, Inc., a video search startup, where I built both backend and frontend systems in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript. Before that, I spent a summer working on Gmail at Google with JavaScript and Java.
I have 12+ years of online entrepreneurial development experience and have built profitable websites that leverage aggregated content, web scraping, and user input. I currently work with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Perl, MySQL, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS and have experience in Java and unix administration.
My academic background is in physics and computer science, with Masters level research in artificial intelligence, stochastic optimization, and machine learning in web applications. I also enjoy exploring emergent phenomena in both nature and computer science.