Farrin Reid
Technomystic & System Whisperer at sudo meditate
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolFarrin Reid is a multidisciplinary technologist and founder with 14 years of experience designing full-stack web applications and resilient cloud infrastructure, currently leading MayYouBeLoved.org as Technomystic & System Whisperer from Portland. Comfortable bridging engineering, operations, and culture, Farrin has held senior architecture and DevOps roles across startups and public agencies, modernizing systems at companies like Videx/CyberLock and the Oregon Department of Forestry. A pragmatic open-source maintainer, they’ve contributed long-term to projects such as the decade-old node-zendesk client—adding pagination, upload robustness, and core client refactors. Farrin blends software craft with contemplative practice (founder of sudo meditate) and even pursues metaphysics academically, bringing uncommon emotional intelligence and systems thinking to technology leadership.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Alaska FairbanksDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Metaphysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Metaphysics at Abide University
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
zendesk-api10
apidoc10
es6-promise10
api-client10
api10
nodejs10
async9
sup7
wrapper7
su7
passenger6
nginx6
openshift6
http-proxy6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
blakmatrix/node-zendesk
Jun 2012 - Apr 2022
A trusted Zendesk API client library for Node.js and the browser, lovingly maintained for over 10 years.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 15 reviews, 223 commits in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Farrin focused on developing and maintaining the Zendesk API client library for Node.js. Their contributions include fixing minor bugs like removing duplicate semicolons, and adding new API features such as the `requestAll` function for pagination. They also fleshed out the upload function, added new functions to the core Client, and refactored existing ones. The changes span core client functionality and several API endpoints, showcasing a focus on maintaining and expanding the library's features.
api-clientapinode-zendeskclient-libraryjavascript
blakmatrix/node-migrator-bot
Jun 2012 - Jul 2012
Contributions:42 commits in 22 days
node-jsnodejsnodemigrate
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