Q&A

1. Who am I?

   Teodor (Ted) Zlatanov. I know programming (Perl, Java, JavaScript, Lisp, C++, etc.) and how to manage Unix systems (Linux, Solaris). I also know how to manage and troubleshoot networks, and am certified with Alcatel switches. I've done a lot of database work, using Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase. Even sqlite though that's not a real RDBMS, because it's so nice for local persistence. I speak SQL but I don't mind ORMs like Rose::DB::Object or Hibernate.

   On the web front, I've done HTML, CSS, AJAX, etc. and it's fun when it works. I like Prototype best, but the others are cool too. On the server I like mod_perl + Template Toolkit, but CGI or Mason or RoR works too. Whatever gets the job done.

   I also have done QA and release engineering, backup management (Networker and Veritas), spec and order of all kinds of hardware. I've worked in companies large and small, from 2-man startups to 50,000 employee behemoths. The song remains the same.

   I've worked in the financial industry, writing drop gateways, price feeds, order and trade logging into a database, and many other things. I've spoken FIX and XML to many financial services: EBSLive, FIXML, Reuters, Fortis, and so on. I've written web scrapers for ICE, ARCA, BATS, Reuters, CME/CBOT, etc. More than any other industry, in financials you have to get the job done and that's all there is to it.

   My resume lists some of these things but it's hard to tell the full story. Basically, whatever the business needed, I either learned or wrote.

   I also have a family, and it comes before work.

2. How can you contact me?
   tzz@lifelogs.com
3. What to do?

   Nothing, just remain calm and don't attract attention.

4. What languages do you know?

   English, Bulgarian, Spanish.

5. I mean programming languages, dork.

   Java, Perl, Lisp, C, shell, whatever gets the job done.

6. What's your favorite?

   The best tool is a brain.

7. Resume?

   # sorry these are not actual puzzles, let me know if you want some
   
   # those who can, do
   my $resume_url = sprintf('http://lifelogs.com/%s.txt', join('', qw/t z z/));
   // for the C++ freaks, who will do
   cout << "http://lifelogs.com/" << 't' << 'z' << 'z' << ".txt" << endl;
   ;;; for the Lisp people, (when 'can (do))
   (message (concat "http://lifelogs.com/" "t" "z" "z" ".txt"))