Moss Drake
Senior Software Engineer at Independent Consultant
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMoss Drake is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with 10 years of focused experience and a multi-decade background building business-critical systems. He combines a BS in Computer Science and a BA in English to bridge technical architecture, databases, and clear technical writing across projects in Python, PHP, and Ruby on Rails. Moss has led full product lifecycles and teams—from developing dental practice management systems and automated claims delivery to supervising IT development and integrations at Moda/DMC. Since 2020 he’s worked as an independent consultant while also editing, designing, and marketing niche automotive books at Flat Out Press, showing an unusual mix of technical depth and publishing/product instincts. He contributes volunteer leadership to the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, applying marketing and design skills to technical community building. Known for pragmatic problem solving, Moss has repeatedly delivered durable, production-grade tooling that modernizes legacy systems while keeping end-user workflows front and center.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Jackson HSOkemos High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Oregon State University
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
backend9
powershell6
jq6
revision6
django-rest-framework6
bitbucket6
windows6
powershell-ise6
batchfile6
amazon-web-services6
tortoisegit6
django6
git6
react5
testing5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mxmoss/mysite
Oct 2016 - Apr 2023
simple django site using mysql
Contributions:41 PRs, 96 pushes, 21 branches in 6 years 7 months
pythonmysqldjango-rest-frameworkdjangodjango-site
mxmoss/borntoday
Dec 2015 - May 2023
Python script to extract a list of who was born or died on a specific date and output as HTML
Contributions:37 PRs, 56 pushes, 24 branches in 7 years 6 months
python
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