Other Skills

A listing of my less technical skills and development methodologies that I wasn’t sure where else to put.

Agile

I have never worked anywhere that implemented any of the agile methodologies fully. But I have worked with several of the techniques found in Scrum and XP, including:

• Pair programming
• Continuous integration
• Sprint based development
• Test driven development
• Collecting and writing user stories

Public Speaking

Public speaking, especially educating a group on a topic is a lot of fun to me. Here is a list of places I’ve spoken or ran sessions

• PDX Python (Most recent to oldest)
  • Building Distributed Systems with Redis and Pub/Sub
  • django-slow-log
  • inspect (lightning talk)
  • dis (lightning talk)
  • baker (lightning talk)
  • Using bpython
• Barcamp Portland 2012
  • Co-ran a session on building distributed systems had people writing services for ZenIRCBot in the session to show how easy it is.