George Dorn

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ABOUT ME

Software Engineer w/ 7 years of Python/Django

I'm a web application developer with about a decade of experience. Most of this has been with Python and Django.

I can help with any part of the web application stack from JavaScript to the SQL database, but my area of expertise is back-end development.

I have multiple rates; mentoring requires more scheduling and is more stressful, so for-hire projects will cost less per hour than mentoring. I also have a "Do Your Homework" rate of $75/hr with a minimum of 1 hour.

Code Portfolios:
https://github.com/georgedorn
https://gitlab.com/u/georgedorn (Slowly moving new projects to gitlab).

Notable projects:
Tastypie (REST API builder for Django) https://github.com/django-tastypie/django-tastypie
Magellan (Personal search engine / spider, for Django and Elasticsearch) https://gitlab.com/georgedorn/django-magellan/tree/master

English

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

Joined January 2015

EXPERTISE

Python

10 years experience

See Django experience. Also have used Flask for lightweight utilities and APIs, and have written selenium-based web testing suites usi...

See Django experience. Also have used Flask for lightweight utilities and APIs, and have written selenium-based web testing suites using Python.

Django

10 years experience

I started using Django right around the 1.0 release, first to build an ecommerce platform, then for a high-availability music metadata si...

I started using Django right around the 1.0 release, first to build an ecommerce platform, then for a high-availability music metadata site (discogs.com), then for a SOA component for an enterprise collaboration platform (kavi.com), then for an energy analytics company (buildingenergy.com). I also have numerous open source projects and contributions relating to django, including a couple bugfixes contributed to the project itself.

Python

PostgreSQL

10 years experience

I've used PostgreSQL almost entirely with Django, with some raw SQL thrown in on occasion. I'm not a DBA-level expert, but I've been wor...

I've used PostgreSQL almost entirely with Django, with some raw SQL thrown in on occasion. I'm not a DBA-level expert, but I've been working with is as a programmer on quite a few projects of various sizes.

SQL

Git

5 years experience

Used various SCM tools at jobs over the years. Most proficient with Git, but can compare/contrast it with most others, including hg, p4,...

Used various SCM tools at jobs over the years. Most proficient with Git, but can compare/contrast it with most others, including hg, p4, svn, cvs.

Version control

MySQL

8 years experience

Used mostly back in my PHP/MySQL days to power ecommerce sites and a high-traffic music metadata site (discogs.com). I'm a little rusty ...

Used mostly back in my PHP/MySQL days to power ecommerce sites and a high-traffic music metadata site (discogs.com). I'm a little rusty and not current, but I know SQL fairly well and am aware of most of the MySQL deviations and pitfalls up to a few years ago.

SQL Database RDBMS

JavaScript

6 years experience

Vue.js

2 years experience

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EMPLOYMENTS

Senior Software Engineer

Pivot Bio

2019-01-01-2022-01-01

Senior Software Engineer at Pivot Bio, a mid-sized Agricultural Technology company. Developed an OLAP framework using Django Rest Fram...

Senior Software Engineer at Pivot Bio, a mid-sized Agricultural Technology company. Developed an OLAP framework using Django Rest Framework for data ingestion, and a data extraction API. Built automated deployment tools with Ansible and AWX. Mentored coworkers and managed external partner projects.Worked on nitrogen-fixing microbial fertilizer development.

Python

Django

API

Python

Django

API

PostgreSQL

Lambda

Celery

Ansible

pytest

OLAP

Mentoring

PostGIS

Data Pipelines

Data parsing

Automated Tests

Vue.js

Django rest api

AWS

Senior Software Engineer

Ridecell

2016-01-01-2018-01-01

Backend developer at Ridecell, working on ride-hailing and car rental services. Developed a REST API, expanded a test suite, and built...

Backend developer at Ridecell, working on ride-hailing and car rental services. Developed a REST API, expanded a test suite, and built a microservice for internationalization. Deployed first containerized microservice with Kubernetes.Worked for clients like Google, Facebook, BMW, 3M, AAA, and numerous college campuses.

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

Celery

Ansible

Containerization

Kubernetes

Microservices

RESTful API

DevOps

AWS

Testing Suites

Internationalisation

Senior Software Engineer

Building Energy

2013-01-01-2015-01-01

Full-stack developer at Building Energy, developing a multi-tenant SaaS platform, optimizing a Big Data pipeline, and automating deplo...

Full-stack developer at Building Energy, developing a multi-tenant SaaS platform, optimizing a Big Data pipeline, and automating deployments to AWS. Built an analytics tool and implemented SOA architecture. Automated documentation generation with Sphinx.Worked on government contracts for high-visibility projects in impact analysis and lead generation.

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

Amazon EC2

Celery

Sphinx

SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture)

Ansible

Fabric

Big Data

ETL

AWS

Multivariate Analysis

SaaS

PROJECTS

Django TastypieView Project

2010

Maintenance of Django Tastypie, the first REST framework for Django. - Keep it compatible with the current supported versions of Django. ...

Maintenance of Django Tastypie, the first REST framework for Django. - Keep it compatible with the current supported versions of Django. - Manage community, their PRs, bug reports, security issues.

Django

SQLite

GitHub

Django

SQLite

GitHub

Continuous Integration

Code Review

Travis CI

Open Source Software

GitHub Actions