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I'm not just a blogger, I'm also a software engineer who lives in Philadelphia, PA and likes to work in Philadelphia, PA.

I have a resume available for download (see the link on the right), and more up to date profiles on a few websites:

A few key things about my career:

• I enjoy using back-end programming and system administration. I have strong UNIX command-line and shell scripting skills.
• One system I built for Ascentive back in 2001 is still in use, and has brought in over $50 million in revenue.
• I prefer open source technologies. My favorite ones are PHP, node.js, Google Go, statsd, and Riak.
• I write open source code! Here's my list of projects on GitHub: https://github.com/dmuth
• I am a big big fan of cloud computing, specifically Amazon Web Services. I have first hand experience creating and working in production environments that are a mix of technologies such as EC2, S3, SQS, and SNS. Oh, and EMR too.
• I have startup experience. I was employee #16 at TurnTide (purchased by Symantec for $28 Million), and employee #8 at Zooyan (which later morphed into CliqSearch and then Whims). I architected the latter entity's infrastructure on AWS and am responsible for 600 million API calls to Facebook Graph in roughly 1 year.
• I enjoy using Chef for configuration management and Vagrant for local development. I even used them both at the same time.

I'm always interested in hearing about new opportunities and unique challenges. If you'd like to chat, please contact me.