Developer High School

Curriculum vitae

Christian Pelczarski

Nelson, NH 03457

******@*****.***

Online handle is minimul

Github

Simplton Blog

Summary

Web developer with backend skills in Ruby (Rails and Sinatra). My strongest skillset is

creating rich interfaces using native web technologies. I also do professional level

design and know Linux like the back of my hand. I am a vimmer.

Background

I immensely enjoy making stuff and have been passionate about computers since as long as

I can remember. Obtaining an Atari 400 or 800 was an early dream of mine. My first

computer eventually was an Atari 800 XL.

In high school I took AP computer programming. In college my interest veered to desktop

publishing, computer art, and animation (Amiga). After university I moved to the D.C.

area, where I took even more desktop publishing courses at George Washington University.

My interest again changed as I obtained work as a Sysadmin where I learned Linux and

eventually introduced it into the MS networks I was managing.

I started dabbling in web development and Flash during those days. Having a good

foundation in design from my desktop publishing days, I taught myself the LAMP stack.

Within a year I professionally switched over to web development. That was about 12 years

ago and now I am hooked on developing great software.

Recent Work History

Rails developer and Founder Simplton 2005-Present

In 2005 we needed a good issue tracker for our team working on NGJ Express. Nothing we

tried such as Bugzilla or Sharepoint fit the bill.

I decided to create one. Here is the whole story.

Did all the design, graphics, and systems work too.

Application is six years in the making and loaded with features.

Tech

Reams of Javascript/CSS/HTML. Prototype.js, jQuery and jQuery UI.

Rails 3.1/Ruby 1.9 Started app in Rails 1.x

Marketing pages leverage CSS 2.1/3 but still deprecates well.

MySQL

Ubuntu ServerRails developer Yesware: Cambridge, MA Dec. 2011 - Jan. 2012: Contract

Created foundations for the automated testing of their Chrome extension using Rspec,

Capybara, and Selenium

Principal developer and Co-founder NGJ Express: 2002 - Present: Contract

Self-funded this venture with a bit of seed money. In return we received equity for a

duration of time.

Venture was near its death about a year-and-a-half into development. We turned to a

little known IE browser technology called XMLHTTPRequest to wrap a 12-page app into a

single page one. After that we were able to win company-wide adoption. This was 2003,

approximately two years before the term Ajax was coined.

Today the application is a company cornerstone handling almost all aspects of Customs

Brokerage.

Personally coded and designed a great majority of the application. Moreover, I handle all

web server and database administration.

Screen shots.

Tech

A ton of Javascript/CSS/HTML. Prototype.js, jQuery and jQuery UI are used for new stuff.

PHP 5

MySQL

Java: Created a permit application system for the Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Canada using the Java Entrust toolkit.

RHEL and now CentOS.

More work related items/history

Attend Portsmouth,NH Web Dev Meetup.

My Pragmatic Programmers Bookshelf.

RailscastPro subscriber.

Personal and Simplton blog run on Sinatra.

Bunch of backend ruby scripts and programs such as:

program to check for overdue books at Chula Vista Library 2008;

pogram to thwart a DDOS 2007;

scripts to administer MySQL;

searching through large compressed file sets.

Attend Barcamp manchester.

Web service in Sinatra for looking up U.S. 9 digit zip codes.

Web design for Great Oak Church. Temecula, CA 2007

Created podcast management software in Rails for Unchainedradio.com. San Diego, CA 2006

PDF label creation app and ecommerce billing thru Paypal. PHP based. 2006

Created Railsite a Homesite, Ruby on Rails plugin in 2006. I use vim nowadays.

Developed backend eccomerce application in PHP that took orders from the Modernrock.com

Yahoo store and coverted it to a order to their CD/DVD distributor. 2005

Flash dev for ICMA Retirement Company. Washington, D.C. 2000-2002

Web dev for Modernrock.com.

Built Firewall and NAT appliances with RedHat 7 by compiling the kernel source "by hand"

for Internet Computers and Support of Falls Church, VA in 2000 (part-time

)

Web dev and systems work for

Public Sector Solutions. Falls Church, VA 1999 - 2000

Network admin for Vertical Marketing, Inc in Falls Church, VA 1998 - 1999

Environmental Scientist at Dames & Moore, Inc Bethesda, MD 1994 - 1998

Rail 3.1 upgrade: From broken to bootable to production.

Ruby 1.9 upgrade: From broken to bootable to production.

Rails 3: From broken to bootable to production.

Sinatra tutorial.

Datalist. This widget completely powers NGJ Express.

Personal

Was a two-year starter at C.B. West High School under one of the most prolific high

school football coaches, Mike Pettine, Sr., in which the ESPN documentary The Last Game

was based.

Make my own pizza using unglazed quarry tiles in a regular oven

Fletcher Hill Snowboarder

Was once a caddy at the Lancaster Country Club, site of the 2015 U.S. Women's Open

Like to cut and hand split a load of uncut timber.

Hacker News junkie.

I was born in Doylestown, PA.

Lived: in Hilltown, PA (12yrs); Doylestown, PA (5yrs); Lancaster, PA area (5yrs);

Bethesda, MD (11yrs); Chula Vista, CA (5yrs); and Nelson, NH (1+yrs).

Tooling

Editor: vim

Graphics: Fireworks

Development machine: MacBook Pro

Source control: Git

Browser: Chrome and Chrome developer tools

Distros: Ubuntu and CentOS

Other:

coLinux

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Education

100% personally financed B.S. degree from Millersville University 1989 - 1993

Took about 15 credits in computer art and desktop publishing

1st team All ECAC Division II wide receiver in '91. All PSAC '91 and '92

Standing

PSAC Conference record for the most catches in one game (18)

Created a directed summer conditioning workout for teammates

Officially certified coach by the American Coaching Effectiveness Program (A.C.E.P

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