Created xtopdf, Python PDF creation toolkit. Freelance developer, consultant and trainer. Worked with startups and large firms, US/IN/NL/CL, products and services.
Skills: Python, C, SQL and database design, Unix & Linux, shell, awk, sed & friends, back end web dev, REST, XML-RPC, XML APIs, PDF generation & text extraction, command-line utility dev (wrote popular IBM dW article on creating utilities, in C on Linux), Flask, MongoDB, SQLAlchemy, software design, testing. Did some Ruby, Rails and Java earlier too.
Was team leader of successful Windows C database middleware product; lots of Unix C work.
P.S. I would be an asset in Unix-based projects, since I know my way around Unix pretty well, especially the core commands, concepts, tools and some system call usage (from C) (although not every nook and cranny or every last API). This comes from having had a lot of experience in it, as both a dev (doing business applications, mainly, but also a good amount of (CLI) utility development, often interfacing with the OS) and some informal Unix sysadmin-type work (including troubleshooting many kinds of problems involving interactions between applications and the Unix they run on), for a fair amount of time, for some years, earlier. This combined exposure to both dev and admin work on Unix-based platforms has given me good systems and applications strengths for doing Unix-based dev projects that require some understanding of and interaction with the OS. SVR3 and 4 and HP-UX were the main Unix variants I've worked on, apart from Linux.
LOCATION: India
REMOTE POSSIBLE: Yes. Prefer remote.
Profile: https://www.codementor.io/vasudevram
Created xtopdf, Python PDF creation toolkit. Freelance developer, consultant and trainer. Worked with startups and large firms, US/IN/NL/CL, products and services.
Skills: Python, C, SQL and database design, Unix & Linux, shell, awk, sed & friends, back end web dev, REST, XML-RPC, XML APIs, PDF generation & text extraction, command-line utility dev (wrote popular IBM dW article on creating utilities, in C on Linux), Flask, MongoDB, SQLAlchemy, software design, testing. Did some Ruby, Rails and Java earlier too.
Was team leader of successful Windows C database middleware product; lots of Unix C work.
Overview of xtopdf: http://slides.com/vasudevram/xtopdf
xtopdf creates business reports & simple PDF ebooks. Supports 20+ input formats. Works with CLI, desktop and Web UIs, on Linux, macOS and Windows.