Alan Post
Owner at prgmr.com
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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RockstarAlan Post is a pragmatic engineering owner and founder with 11+ years building and operating Linux/BSD hosting, infrastructure automation, and developer-facing tooling from the San Francisco Bay Area. He runs prgmr.com (Tornado VPS), where he leads product, operations, and customer-facing development for VPS services and has scaled the business by hiring dev/support staff and optimizing datacenter contracts. Technically fluent in Python, SQL, and C, Alan specializes in packaging, deployment, build automation and has deep hands-on experience debugging complex Linux kernel, networking, and NFS issues at scale. He has led teams and built CI/CD systems for embedded and cloud products, surfaced build analytics for commercial release tooling, and contributed backend fixes to the respected Lobsters community. Comfortable switching between low-level systems troubleshooting and higher-level product design, he combines entrepreneurial ownership with a focus on reliable, automatable operations.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
ruby10
ruby-rails10
rails10
database-management9
aggregator8
sql8
forum7
maps6
chicken-scheme6
dictionary6
variadic-functions6
python6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lobsters/lobsters
Jul 2018 - Sep 2020
Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 21 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to the backend of the Lobsters platform by fixing typos, improving error messages, and updating code related to the site's chat functionality. They also made changes to database interactions, specifically addressing issues related to comment scores. Furthermore, the user addressed minor grammatical errors and updated the sitemap and mod-related paths.
discourseaggregationrailsweb-appforum
alanpost/notqmail
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Collaborative open-source successor to qmail and netqmail
Contributions:160 pushes, 62 branches in 1 month
smtpwebmailmtaemailqmail
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