Drew Raines

Software engineer located in Nashville, TN. My focus is building scalable web services for search & analytics. I enjoy using Clojure, Python, ElasticSearch, qmail, Debian, and other great free software to solve problems.

me at draines.com (public key)
1-615-807-0005
Résumé (txt, pdf)

Projects

• es2unix, a set of tools for turning ElasticSearch's REST API responses more suitable for grep & awk.
• esperanto, a native Clojure ElasticSearch client.
• elmer, a pastebin for the cloud running at p.draines.com. RESTful & pluggable. Drop directly into your Java container or run it standalone. Comes with filesystem storage by default. S3 support on its way.
• postal, a flexible, idiomatic Clojure library for email message construction and sending. Supports sendmail, SMTP, TLS, & SSL. Can stress-test your MTA.
• clot, a Clojure IRC client.
• Pieces of Flair, Wade Roberts's excellent Facebook app. We scaled it to 250K daily users, ranking it formerly in Facebook's top 10 apps by popularity. Thank-you to a great free software stack: Debian GNU/Linux, nginx, Apache httpd, PHP, MySQL, & varnish. It all runs at SoftLayer, the best hosting money can buy. Pieces of Flair was acquired by RockYou summer of 2008.
• bmi.com, clustered app servers, redundant databases, 500K pageviews daily.
• ledger, John Wiegley's accounting software without which I could not keep my finances in order. I provide user support and some software contributions.
• Gmane, Lars Magne Ingegrigtsen's public mailing list <--> NNTP gateway. I co-administer with a team of people around the world.

Places

• del.icio.us
• flickr
• github
• twitter
• facebook
• Hacker News

me at draines.com