A Bit About Me
I am a software developer. I did HTML and PHP in high school, then learned Java in college. After being uninspired by what was then the state of the art in Java programming on the web, I left for Ruby and haven't looked back yet.
At this writing in the June of 2012, I am 33 years old. I grew up in East Tennessee, attending Maryville High School. I went to school at Rice where I help with recruiting. After graduating, I moved to the Richmond, VA area where I met my lovely wife, Megan. We were married on August 18, 2007. We moved to Charlotte, NC, where we share a lovely home just outside I-277, minutes from Uptown. On April 19 of 2011, she gave birth naturally to our son Jefferson James Van Fleet.
After a year of freelancing, I accepted a position CTO of a company called OtherScreen In February of 2011. OtherScreen is a social TV startup providing companion content to live television or radio broadcasts. We are building this company with the plan to sell it, and I'm very excited at the possibilities.
My primary hobbies are basically indistinguishable from my work. In addition to copious computer geekery, I also play disc golf and video games. I am at the very beginning of learning to play the guitar, and I still hope to write the Great American Novel of the next generation.
I unashamedly stole this design and typography from Ryan Tomayko. Credit for my avatar goes to my brother-in-law, Ryan Epp, and Megan, who asked him to do it.
What Now?
If you are a software person, you might want to check out my open-source software contributions. I think it's more likely you'd want to subscribe to my newsletter about the Charlotte Startup Community or perhaps follow me on Twitter.
I also have walkthroughs for a couple of brain-teasers, the Self-Referential Aptitude Test and Who Owns the Fish?
