Carl Tashian

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ABOUT ME

I'm a lifelong software engineer with over 20 years of experience. I love helping people get unstuck.

Over the years I've held a variety of software engineering and UX roles up and down the stack, from embedded systems programming in C, to Linux system administration and TCP/IP network administration, to front-end development in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. I specialize in consumer-facing products—I wrote the code that opens your Zipcar. Because of my depth of experience as a generalist, I have a knack for debugging.

English

Pacific Time (US & Canada) (-08:00)

Joined June 2019

EXPERTISE

Python

3 years experience

I've been doing Python OOP programming lately, mostly helping others with their projects. I like Python's flexibility, but it's easy to g...

I've been doing Python OOP programming lately, mostly helping others with their projects. I like Python's flexibility, but it's easy to get trapped into poor design patterns due to Python's nature as a multi-paradigm, general purpose language.

Python 3 Unit Testing Pair Programming OOP Test driven development

Debugging

20 years experience

As a generalist, I have developed a very good intuition for debugging. I can usually get up to speed very quickly on a project and, becau...

As a generalist, I have developed a very good intuition for debugging. I can usually get up to speed very quickly on a project and, because I have experience working on many levels of the stack (including system administration experience), I can often go below the surface if needed, to find the root of a given problem.

Back-End Node.js JavaScript

Back-End Node.js JavaScript Bash Web Development SQL

Ruby on Rails

6 years experience

I've done freelance Ruby on Rails software development for clients that include The American Museum of Natural History, Harvard Universit...

I've done freelance Ruby on Rails software development for clients that include The American Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, and ITP@NYU. I've built several Rails apps from the ground up. As a co-founder at my last startup, Yerdle, I spent much of my time on Rails development.

Ruby PostgreSQL

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SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

multiverse

Adobe Photoshop scripts for making generative art

JavaScript

emoji-text-replacements

Emoji keyboard shortcuts as macOS text replacements

JavaScript

Stack Overflow

111 Reputation

Community Posts

Print out your code. On paper.

Cover photo CC-BY-SA 4.0, by Corvair Reading code is hard work—in some ways harder than writing it—so most of us have a tendency to avoid looking closely. There is a practice I learned about long...

EMPLOYMENTS

Co-Founder, Head of Engineering

Yerdle

2012-05-01-2015-10-01

Built and led Yerdle’s engineering team, from writing the first line of code to managing a team of ten. Developed and continuously improv...

Built and led Yerdle’s engineering team, from writing the first line of code to managing a team of ten. Developed and continuously improved engineering strategy and culture, pipelines for software development, Agile practices, product development, and hiring. I spent about 50% of my time doing software development.

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

Node.js

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Principal

Aloka Studio

2006-06-01-2012-06-01

Freelance Ruby on Rails software development. Clients included The American Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, and ITP@NYU

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

MySQL

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

MySQL

PostgreSQL

OOP

JavaScript

Lead Developer

OurGoods

2009-04-01-2012-05-01

I built and maintained the OurGoods’ web application. OurGoods is a community of artists, designers, and cultural producers who want to b...

I built and maintained the OurGoods’ web application. OurGoods is a community of artists, designers, and cultural producers who want to barter skills, spaces, and objects. OurGoods was a recipient of the 2011 Rockefeller Foundation NYC Cultural Innovation Fund.

Ruby

HTML/CSS

Ruby on Rails

Ruby

HTML/CSS

Ruby on Rails

Bootstrap

JavaScript

PROJECTS

MultiverseView Project

2018

Multiverse is a collection of Adobe Photoshop scripts for making generative art, created for the 2018 edition of Rhizome's Seven on Seven...

Multiverse is a collection of Adobe Photoshop scripts for making generative art, created for the 2018 edition of Rhizome's Seven on Seven event at the New Museum in NYC.

JavaScript

Adobe Photoshop

JavaScript

Adobe Photoshop