Creator of xtopdf, a PDF creation toolkit for Python (used by Packt Publishing, the Software Freedom Law Center, ESRI.nl and others.) xtopdf can create both business reports and ebooks, and currently has support for the following input formats: text, DBF, CSV, TSV/TDV, XLS, ODBC, SQLAlchemy, MongoDB, XML. xtopdf links:
Independent developer for the last several years, with many years of experience in many tech areas. Contracted/consulted to multiple startups based in USA and India. Earlier worked for large well-known US and Indian software companies.
Skills: Good - Python, C, Linux, UNIX, many open source technologies, databases, XML-RPC, PDF programming, file and data format conversion, data munging, command-line utility development. Some: Flask, MongoDB, Bottle, various others.
Worked on Ruby, Rails and Java some time earlier. Server lead / senior engineer for two commercial Rails-based dot-com products earlier, by US companies.
Databases worked on: Oracle, Sybase, Informix, MySQL, SQLite, HSQLDB, MS-Access.
Worked on a best-selling retail banking product (earlier, in C with proprietary DB and UI libs). Was team leader for a database middleware product widely used in client projects by a top software company.
Article by me about "Developing a Linux command-line utility" (in C) was published on IBM developerWorks and translated by IBM into Chinese and Japanese for those versions of their site. Some organizations have developed production command line tools using that article as a guide.
Creator of xtopdf, a PDF creation toolkit for Python (used by Packt Publishing, the Software Freedom Law Center, ESRI.nl and others.) xtopdf can create both business reports and ebooks, and currently has support for the following input formats: text, DBF, CSV, TSV/TDV, XLS, ODBC, SQLAlchemy, MongoDB, XML. xtopdf links:
http://slid.es/vasudevram/xtopdf https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf http://www.packtpub.com/article/Using_xtopdf http://google.com/search?q=xtopdf
Independent developer for the last several years, with many years of experience in many tech areas. Contracted/consulted to multiple startups based in USA and India. Earlier worked for large well-known US and Indian software companies.
Skills: Good - Python, C, Linux, UNIX, many open source technologies, databases, XML-RPC, PDF programming, file and data format conversion, data munging, command-line utility development. Some: Flask, MongoDB, Bottle, various others.
Worked on Ruby, Rails and Java some time earlier. Server lead / senior engineer for two commercial Rails-based dot-com products earlier, by US companies.
Databases worked on: Oracle, Sybase, Informix, MySQL, SQLite, HSQLDB, MS-Access.
Worked on a best-selling retail banking product (earlier, in C with proprietary DB and UI libs). Was team leader for a database middleware product widely used in client projects by a top software company.
Relevant links:
Biz site: http://www.dancingbison.com (see Home, Products, Services, About pages there)
http://www.binpress.com/profile/vasudev-ram/3425
Posts about Python:
http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/python
Posts about xtopdf:
http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/xtopdf
Blog: http://jugad2.blogspot.com
Article by me about "Developing a Linux command-line utility" (in C) was published on IBM developerWorks and translated by IBM into Chinese and Japanese for those versions of their site. Some organizations have developed production command line tools using that article as a guide.
Contact info: http://dancingbison.com/contact.html (email, Skype). Twitter: @vasudevram