Projects Tagged ‘Python

My first project to utilize the USU Django infrastructure was an online voting application that students would use to elect the University’s student body officers.

This was a relatively simple project, but a good showcase of my methods for simple, intuitive user interface design with an emphasis on accessibility—all prototyped, designed, and implemented rapidly to meet a deadline.

Django

I am always looking for ways to speed up development and automate processes that I do over and over. In particular, I try to engineer systems that help avoid the usual headaches associated with deployment processes because they are usually very convoluted and error-prone.

To this end, I engineered Utah State University’s Django hosting infrastructure for instant deployment of new sites, use of modular common code, easy inline documentation with automatic HTML generation, and fast updates to live sites.

openipam-logoI was the technical and project lead over the open source, in-house re-creation of USU’s network registration stack. This included a bottom-up replacement of Utah State University’s DNS, DHCP, IP address management, and computer registration infrastructure.

Accomplishing this was my first professional opportunity to be over such a challenging and multifaceted problem that affected tens of thousands of people.