Working With Rails

I’m Jerry Kuch. I’ve worked on many things including operating systems, multimedia, security and crypto software, niche embedded stuff, broadcast video, web applications (mainly backend), mathematical programming environments (computer algebra and statistics mainly), virtual machines, network appliances, signal processing and likely some other things that aren’t coming to mind just now.

In the distant past, I worked at Microsoft. Since leaving in 2000, I’ve worked almost entirely on non-MS technologies: Java, Linux, Mac OS X, open source, languages that weren’t first class citizens in the MS world, etc. Eight years is probably adequate penance, and recent history has given relatively little incentive to return to that technology stack, although there are nice things going on here and there (by which I mean within a stone’s throw of Erik Meijer).

In the last couple of years, I’ve worked in and around:

• The Java virtual machine
• Functional programming languages, particularly targeting the JVM
• Statistical computing, R and SPLUS
• Haskell, type systems, monads, concurrency
• Some Apache Camel/ActiveMQ enterprise integration stuff for the consumption end of a data-mining system
• Ruby and Rails

I’ve recently been working on a couple of projects at once, but am now reaching the point that I can take a bit of a breather and look at something else. But I’m nearly always open to yakking about anything interesting, with somebody interesting.

I’m usually easy to reach at jerryk AT purpleiguanasoftware.com.