Hi. I'm a software developer in Southern California. These are things you probably want to know about me if you are looking for me on the internet:
I've been writing code for fun since I was too young to know any better. I did it semi-professionally from my junior in high school through college and have been doing it full-time as a career since I graduated in 2005.
So I usually work in open source. I've done a lot of web development. I've also done work in document organization and CMSses, database reporting of all kinds, web spiders, library metadata, machine learning/computational linguistics, spatial stuff and GIS work. I prefer simple user interfaces with equally simple but powerful working models, and try to avoid presenting anything in a superfluously complex manner, even expert systems. I think a well-designed system for a specialized task should make it possible for non-experts to get the gist, and even act as a teaching tool.
I've used a lot of languages and environments. Mostly PHP, Python, Perl, C/C++. I like Python best. I've been on Linux, Solaris, OSX and Windows and am most productive when I have both a Debian and an OSX machine at my disposal.
I used to do a lot of foreign language and linguistics work, and I majored in linguistics. I studied Spanish, Latin, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. If you think that someone cannot study that many languages and be very good at all of them, you are very, very correct.
I have just started using the distributed VCS web sites, I am on Bitbucket and Github but don't have anything useful up yet.
Unfortunately, a lot of the stuff I've done isn't avalable for the rest of the world to see. One thing I made in May of 2008 that is publicly available is an application on Google App Engine for running scavenger hunts online called Point Raccoon. I put it together in about a week.