| Location: Kansas City, MO | Remote or relocate (for right opportunity) | Full Time Stack: Full stack Django dev since 2006. Python/Django, HTML/CSS, JavaScript/CoffeeScript, front-end JS frameworks such as Backbone.js/jQuery/D3 Portfolio: http://zacharytamas.me/portfolio/, Meta: https://github.com/zacharytamas, https://www.linkedin.com/in/zacharytamas Resume: Prefer to share privately Contact: zacharytamas@gmail.com Starting out in web development in my early teens, I was full-stack by necessity: the types of things I wanted to build required me to do everything. I'm naturally curious in all things engineering, which is probably why I took such a diverse collection of courses in college: networking/devops, operating systems, assembly programming, C++, etc. Above all, I love learning new technologies and ways of doing things, and my professional development career has included a broad array of learned technologies (see the list on my portfolio), sometimes where I picked up a language/framework I didn't know for a single project just because it was the best way to do it. I really enjoy this kind of continuous learning. For the majority of the first half of my career I was designing everything in additional to full-stack development, but without proper design education. Part of my latest endeavor is to fill in this weakness and really get into UI design and develop my front-end skills above generalist-level to deliver greater user experiences. I'm finding designing and developing interactions and experiences to be very personally rewarding. A desirable position would be primarily in design and front-end development, but as I do have experience and enjoy full-stack challenges, I'd say something like 60:40 front-end:back-end would be a happy combination of challenge. A position/company where I could develop these skills and feel part of an influential team would be quite awesome indeed. |