Personal
I have interests, it’s true. In no particular order, here are a few:
- Solving problems
- Flying - currently licensed with a single-engine land class rating
- Playing golf
- Solving problems
- Sleeping
- Waking up
- Solving problems
I live in downtown Bloomington, Indiana, with Kate and JEFF!.
Professional
The Past
Way back in the year 2000, I cofounded Resite Information Technology. Amazingly as of this writing, that site remains up. After selling the company in 2007, the name was changed to Resite Online. That’s right, “online.”
The Resite platform was written initially in PHP3 and as of 2006 was serving the automated payment acceptance needs of thousands of large apartment complexes in 40 states in the US. Resite was the very first to serve the multi-family industry with a system that enabled tenants to set up automated rent payments via credit card and ACH. I wrote 90% of the code.
The Present
In 2009, as a cofounder of SproutBox, I founded GetCheddar, Inc.
Since founding GetCheddar (formerly CheddarGetter), I have remained focused as CTO and Full Stack Architect. Cheddar is the first of it’s kind to offer a true software-as-a-service recurring billing and payments platform with fully automated merchant self-signup and self-service. Cheddar specializes in providing usage tracking and billing for web application subscriptions.
The Cheddar platform was initially written in PHP5 and Zend Framework version 1. Initially hosted on the Rackspace Cloud, the entire environment was soon migrated to a proprietary PCI-compliant environment. The hosting environment migration resulted in zero downtime. Later the codebase was migrated to PHP7 and Zend Framework v2. Most recently, it was rewritten as a pure REST API using the middleware pattern via Mezzio (FKA Zend Framework Expressive) with OAuth2. I wrote 99% of the code.
The Future
You can help define this. I’m currently available for hire. Contact me