Andrew Harvey
I build cool things, dig music, take pictures and write words.
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Tweets
- I've got to say, @rdio's remote control mode is pretty wicked. It makes up for not having airplay mode on the native client.
- @stevelikesyou A likely story… If you like that, you may also like... Justin Bieber. Not my thing but whatever floats your boat.
- Just thought you'd like to know, @rdio is telling me that @stevelikesyou has been listening to One Direction...
- Video: Skrillex gets reviewed by kids. So good. http://t.co/o7L9cK9l
- @abdul_ghani Ask @MeccaKingSt. Have you recently had dairy?
- @mutemath rocking the house at the Hifi http://t.co/rcTtcn52
- Introducing resque-brokered - Having worked quite a lot with queuing and messaging systems, I was quite... http://t.co/eSxIDHX8
- Ah. It's a shame that the nice, shiny OSCAR trains in Sydney are giant rolling faraday cages. Mobile broadband be damned.
- Friday night view. http://t.co/0hNpZfgt
- This burger will change your life. http://t.co/Mdr1Zha7
- Photo: Down. (Taken with instagram) http://t.co/UuusS4cq
- Drink. @ Bazaar Beer Cafe http://t.co/NlOREefz
- Look up. http://t.co/BqwGDpn5
- Photo: Commuting over my second favourite bridge in Sydney (Taken with instagram) http://t.co/SONlYaSZ
- Commuting over my second favourite bridge in Sydney http://t.co/e5kjd0Bb
- @JonnyRenton My gear gets a good review there too... "top of the line" and all that. ;)
- .@TheNTNews is my favourite twitter syndication of news. It kind of makes me wistful for the days when I lived in Darwin.
- I wonder giving gephi a graph with 46109 nodes and 146378 edges was possibly a little too hopeful…
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Photos
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Top ArtistsColdplaySufjan StevensSomething For KateSnow PatrolSigur RósThe Cat EmpireJohn MayerDamien RiceRadioheadJosh PykeJeff BuckleyBeckDe La SoulOasisBjörkThe Beach BoysFleet FoxesAugie MarchInfadelsDave Matthews BandRegina SpektorBon IverIron & WineAngus & Julia StoneAmericaNoah and the WhaleRyan AdamsThe FrayThe NationalKisschasyJimi Hendrixkid confuciusEpicureCustom KingsGotyeCrowded HouseThe BeatlesBen Folds FiveRöyksoppGrizzly BearWhitleyDigable PlanetsBroken Social SceneMuseThe Tallest Man On EarthBen HarperU2Ani DifrancoPassion Pit
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- Breathe Me by Sia177 plays
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Info
- SummaryOver the last 5 years, I have worked in very different fields, from support technician, systems administrator, team leader, developer and engineer.
I embrace technical challenges head-on, working to create the best solution possible within the time constraints. I love working on small, close-knit teams to produce great work.Specialties: Ruby, Python, HTML, CSS, MySQL, distributed processing, data processing architecture, system design, amazon web services, NoSQLExperience- May 2011 - PresentDeveloper / Westfield
- Aug 2010 - May 2011Back-End Engineer / ChompAt Chomp I was responsible for maintaining and improving the existing python based crawlers, as well as writing new crawlers and improving their operations.
- Sept 2009 - Aug 2010Developer / LexerAt Lexer I was responsible for designing and building a tool to monitor social media. I was responsible for creating the system almost in its entirety (the one section of the code that I did not "own" was the javascript front end). The system included crawling and data processing components written in Python, a search engine first implemented in Solr then migrated to Elastic Search, a Riak cluster, and a Ruby on Rails front end.
- Apr 2009 - Sept 2009Technical Lead: User Migration Project / Kordia SolutionsAs the Australian team leader of the user migration project, I successfully coordinated moving several hundred users and their respective workstations and mailboxes between active directory domains at the same time as deploying a suite of applications using Microsoft's SCCM.
- Apr 2009 - May 2009Web Developer / ISeekGolf Pty Ltd
- Dec 2005 - Mar 2009Freelance web professional / Polymorph CreativeAs a freelancer, I worked in close conjunction with various businesses to provide build and maintain web applications and provide support to users.
- Mar 2008 - Mar 2008Contract Rails Developer / Mark.In a short term contract role, I developed a web-services based application for internal use using Ruby on Rails with full RSpec test suite.
- Apr 2007 - Jul 2007Senior IT Technician / Raffles KvB SydneyI provided support to staff and students at the Raffles KvB Campus in Sydney. This included software and hardware troubleshooting, network administration, work with Windows XP, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X clients and servers. Also took on role of network security, tracking down rogue hosts and rogue users.
- Nov 2006 - Apr 2007Contract Developer / Streetline MediaI was responsible for the planning and development of CMS systems for clients and maintenance of existing deployed solutions.
- Jan 2006 - Sept 2006Support Technician / North Sydney Boys High SchoolWhilst still studying I was engaged to assist with IT services at the school as a paid contractor. This included: - First level support, server management, management of 200+ workstations. - Windows 2003 Domain Administration. - Server and Workstation management using Altiris Remote Management tools. - Diagnosis of hardware faults. - Security planning and execution.
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Interests:new media, social networking, social media, music, analytics, photography
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Posts
5 Australian Dollars. Through the wash and the dryer and still good. Let’s see a Lincoln do that (Taken with instagram)
- For those of you wondering...
My hair is gone because I shaved it off as part of the world’s greatest shave.
You can still sponsor me and contribute to the Leukaemia foundation!
I think I’ve become a full on instagram spammer. It’s fun, though. (Taken with instagram)
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Checkins
- Guzman Y GomezShop 2, 77 Willoughby Road
- Stitch Bar61 York St.
- Mecca Espresso67 King St.
- 100 Market St100 Market St
- Mecca Espresso67 King St.
- Mecca Espresso67 King St.
- Food on Five Food Courtcnr Pitt St. Mall & Market St.
- Food on Five Food Courtcnr Pitt St. Mall & Market St.
- Mecca Espresso67 King St.
- Stitch Bar61 York St.
- Mecca Espresso67 King St.
- Bazaar Beer Cafe1 Albany St
- Mecca Espresso67 King St.
- Guzman Y GomezShop 2, 77 Willoughby Road
- Pablo & Rusty's1 St Johns Ave.
- La Thaiu1 / 30 Sefton Rd
- Food on Five Food Courtcnr Pitt St. Mall & Market St.
- Mecca Espresso67 King St.
- Food on Five Food Courtcnr Pitt St. Mall & Market St.
- Mecca Espresso67 King St.
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Map
- Rails Camp 112012-06-15 - 2012-06-18
- NVLC2011-10-03 - 2011-10-06
- Gold Coast, Australia, June 20112011-06-10 - 2011-06-13
- Kazakhstan2011-03-03 - 2011-05-15
- O'Reilly Strata2011-01-31 - 2011-02-08
- OSCON & Emma's Wedding2010-07-16 - 2010-07-31
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Repositories
- Provides a way to control how jobs are picked up by redis workers1 fork / 2 watchers / Pushed May 15, 12
- Redis-backed service for fast autocompleting - extracted from SeatGeek1 watcher / Pushed Apr 01, 12
- This gem adds a Redis::Namespace class which can be used to namespace Redis keys.1 watcher / Pushed Sep 19, 11
- Egophone takes extracted backups and has a look inside using ElasticSearch and MongoDB1 fork / 2 watchers / Pushed Jun 21, 11
- a web (interface | service) for viewing collectd statistics1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Feb 24, 10
- Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine313 forks / 2220 watchers / Pushed May 17, 12
- Nokogiri (鋸) is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser with XPath and CSS selector support.181 forks / 1645 watchers / Pushed May 15, 12
- Provides a way to control how jobs are picked up by redis workers1 fork / 2 watchers / Pushed May 15, 12
- A capybara driver that uses WebKit via QtWebKit.190 forks / 852 watchers / Pushed May 11, 12
- A Graph Database for JRuby. It uses the java lib neo4j as storage and lucene for quering/indexing64 forks / 430 watchers / Pushed May 08, 12
- a web (interface | service) for viewing collectd statistics38 forks / 297 watchers / Pushed Apr 25, 12
- Redis-backed service for fast autocompleting - extracted from SeatGeek1 watcher / Pushed Apr 01, 12
- Redis-backed service for fast autocompleting - extracted from SeatGeek61 forks / 540 watchers / Pushed Mar 29, 12
- Solarized color theme for OS X Lion Terminal.app17 forks / 152 watchers / Pushed Feb 03, 12
- A streaming JSON parsing and encoding library for Ruby (C bindings to yajl)58 forks / 797 watchers / Pushed Dec 16, 11
- This gem adds a Redis::Namespace class which can be used to namespace Redis keys.46 forks / 156 watchers / Pushed Sep 19, 11
- This gem adds a Redis::Namespace class which can be used to namespace Redis keys.1 watcher / Pushed Sep 19, 11
- Egophone takes extracted backups and has a look inside using ElasticSearch and MongoDB1 fork / 2 watchers / Pushed Jun 21, 11
- a web (interface | service) for viewing collectd statistics1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Feb 24, 10
