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I'm Steve. I'm a programmer currently living in Rochester, NY. I graduated from
[Rochester Institute of Technology][rit] in 2008 with a Bachelor's degree in
[Computer Science][ritcs].

If you'd *really* like to get to know me you should look at the [projects][]
and [blog posts][] I've written, or cut to the chase and look at my [code][].

[rit]: http://rit.edu/
[ritcs]: http://www.cs.rit.edu/
[projects]: /projects/
[blog posts]: /blog/
[code]: http://bitbucket.org/sjl/

## Skills & Interests

### Languages

My favorite programming language at the moment is [Python][]. It's elegant,
readable, powerful, and makes it easy to *get things done*.

I've also had experience with [Java][], [C][], [C++][], [Lisp][], [SQL][] and
[PL/SQL][], [JavaScript][], [Groovy][], and [bash scripting][]. I've used a
number of markup and templating languages, including [XHTML][], [XML][],
[CSS][], [JSON][], [Markdown][], [Django][]'s template system, and [Jinja2][].

In my free time I'm working on learning [R][].

[Python]: http://www.python.org/
[Java]: http://java.sun.com/
[C]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)
[C++]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B
[Lisp]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)
[SQL]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
[PL/SQL]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/SQL
[JavaScript]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
[Groovy]: http://groovy.codehaus.org/
[bash scripting]: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
[XHTML]: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
[XML]: http://www.w3.org/XML/
[CSS]: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/
[JSON]: http://www.json.org/
[Markdown]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[Jinja2]: http://jinja.pocoo.org/2/
[R]: http://www.r-project.org/


## Timeline

I completed two six-month [co-ops][] while at [RIT][].  After that I worked
full-time for seven years, then went back to school at [RU][] for my master's
degree.

[co-ops]: https://www.rit.edu/about/coop_careers.html
[RIT]: http://rit.edu/
[RU]: https://www.ru.is/

### Graduate Student in Computer Science at [Reykjavík University][RU]

*Reykjavík, Iceland from August 2015 to June 2017.*

### Senior Software Engineer at [Simple][]

*Remotely from July 2013 to July 2015.*

At [Simple][] I worked on the Backend Engineering team creating and maintaining
services in [Scala][], [Java][], and [Clojure][].  I was also in the primary
on-call rotation during my time there.

[Simple]: https://simple.com/
[Scala]: https://www.scala-lang.org/
[Clojure]: https://clojure.org/

### Senior Software Engineer at the [Participatory Culture Foundation][PCF]

*Remotely from September 2011 to June 2013.*

At the [PCF][] I helped maintain and extend the [Amara][] subtitling website.
My work was primarily in [Django][] and [Python][], using [South][] for database
migrations and [Vagrant][] for development environments.

[PCF]: http://www.pculture.org/
[Amara]: https://amara.org/en/
[South]: https://south.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[Vagrant]: https://www.vagrantup.com/

### Senior Software Engineer at [Dumbwaiter Design][DWD]

*Rochester, NY from January 2010 to September 2011.*

At [Dumbwaiter][DWD] I worked with a small team of designers and developers to
create beautiful websites backed by [Django][] and [Python][].  I focused
primarily on backend development and system administration, but also contributed
frontend [Javascript][] and [CSS][] when necessary.

[DWD]: http://dwaiter.com/
[Django]: https://www.djangoproject.com/
[Javascript]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
[CSS]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets

### Software Engineer at [PAETEC][]

*Rochester, NY from June 2008 to January 2010.*

At [PAETEC][] I maintained and implemented new features for web applications
in [Java][] using the [Oracle E-Business Suite][oebs] and worked on underlying
[SQL][] and [PL/SQL][] code for our databases.

[PAETEC]: http://paetec.com/
[oebs]: http://www.oracle.com/applications/e-business-suite.html

### Data Architecture Co-op at [Excellus BlueCross BlueShield][]

*Rochester, NY from June 2007 to November 2007.*

At [Excellus][] I developed software in [Java][] to interact with and manage
databases of customer and provider information stored on a mainframe, and
created/maintained [JUnit][] and [Jemmy][] tests for this software.

[Excellus BlueCross BlueShield]: https://www.excellusbcbs.com/
[Excellus]: https://www.excellusbcbs.com/
[JUnit]: http://www.junit.org/
[Jemmy]: http://jemmy.dev.java.net/

### Managed Services Programmer at [RightNow Technologies][]

*Pittsford, NY from June 2006 to November 2006.*

At [RightNow][] I developed a set of tools to test the effectiveness of
voice-automated telephone systems, written in a combination of [bash
scripting][] and [Python][], and helped generate statistics about the
effectiveness of these systems for customers.

[RightNow Technologies]: http://www.rightnow.com/
[RightNow]: http://www.rightnow.com/

### Undergraduate Student in Computer Science at the [Rochester Institute of Technology][RIT]

*Rochester, NY from September 2003 to June 2008.*

## Contact Me

My **email address** is: <steve@stevelosh.com>  
My **phone number** is: (570) 417-1392  
My **skype username** is: steve.losh  
My (temporary) **mailing address** is: 74 Hildebrandt Road, Dallas PA, 18612