Semi-professional software developer and web designer. Technically a Meteorologist.

Expertise in CSS, LESS (expertise deprecated), SCSS (not SASS though...). Poor applier of code style guides, but I almost never forget a close bracket. A fan of FontAwesome and Boostrap (though I never use it).

Skilled Googler of problems. Competent reader of Stack Overflow. Used jQuery after it was cool... still do. D3, leaflet, maps, mapbox, moment.js, modernizr, and underscore are just some of the tools I use for things I want people to see. I can PHP better than anyone I know... a fact I am embarrassed by. I have used on the fly markdown compilers,

I have glued a thing or two together in Python too. I have written socket servers, socket listeners, web sockets, http sockets, serial sockets, ftp senders, ftp receivers, anything that transfers data via 1980s technology, I've heard about it. I have made more things with Tornado than I care to admit (particularly as a Meteorologist). APIs, dynamic web pages, static web services, and even an ill-informed attempt to replicate bl.ocks.org. Fiddled with mysql, postgres, and sqlite (both on disk and in-memory) databases.

I git. I git hub. I try my best to make exciting network graphs.

I am an apache novice going on 8 years now. I was going to get good at NGINX, but discovered mediocre was sufficient for all my needs. I know not to use .htaccess files, and how to manage caching. I have set up SSL on both nginx and apache... never perfectly, but functionally.

I work with customers... and occasionally I actually accomplish something with them. As a maker of tools customers use, interacting them is rather unavoidable.

I work on a Mac with a code keyboard and it's bliss. I edit with Sublime text working on remote files locally via disk mounting from Transmit.

I cant get enough of MASH, though it may be the most overacted show in the history of television. Netflix, thank you for adding seasons 6-11.

The S. is for Swyler. It's my Mom's last name, and if you google the name, you will probably come across some incredibly talented people I am related to. On a related topic, grammatically I am a fan of antiquated paragraph text indentation, commas, and especially Oxford commas.