AmiriĀ Barksdale
Company Owner at Perl Community
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmiri Barksdale is a full-stack software engineer and entrepreneur with 16 years of experience building back-end systems, databases, and web applications, now running an independent publishing venture in Los Angeles. He brings deep expertise in UNIX, Perl, SQL, DevOps tooling (Chef, Puppet, AWS), and has long contributed to core Perl ecosystem projects like DBIx::Class, Catalyst, and Moose. His work spans from database schema and view implementations to network and print-publishing workflows, reflecting a rare combination of systems-level engineering and content production. A CPAN author and former founder of music-tech and web startups, he blends pragmatic engineering with product instincts and an eye for publication-quality output.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Religion, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Religion at Dartmouth College
French, German
Stackoverflow
65reputation
6kreached
1answer
5questions
Github Skills (18)
dbi10
schema-design10
dbix-class10
perl10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
schema10
sql9
testing8
haskell6
amazon-dynamodb6
cartography6
css6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Perl5/DBIx-Class
May 2010 - Dec 2010
GitHub side of the DBIx::Class ( DBIC ) repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:26 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Amiri primarily focused on developing and modifying backend components for the DBIx::Class project, which is a database abstraction layer for Perl. Their contributions include adding and modifying view-related functionality, creating test files, and modifying database schema definition. They implemented new view-related features and dependencies for data presentation. The user demonstrated proficiency in database design and schema management.
dbix-class
amiri/Net-DNS-SPF-Expander
Jul 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:3 PRs, 16 pushes, 8 tags in 4 years 1 month
spfdnsexpander
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