Bio - bitprophet.org

Hi.

My name’s Jeff. I’m a computer guy, personally and professionally, specializing in Python development and Unix systems administration.

Most recently I’ve been mixing the two disciplines, writing development tools to make administration easier and more automated. The catchy label for this is “DevOps”, but all that matters is that it lets me do two complimentary things I love.

For more on my professional career, please see my resume and hiring pages.

Why you might know me

I am best known for maintaining a handful of popular open source tools and libraries, mostly centered around systems administration and project management; the most visible one is likely Fabric. I’ve also spent a lot of time rubbing shoulders with various Python and Django luminaries & attended just about every PyCon in the 2010s (plus a few other smaller confs).

Where I am, and have been

Born in the early 1980s, raised and educated in Western Massachusetts through the turn of the century, I spent the 2000s in the New York/New Jersey metro area and the 2010s in the San Francisco Bay Area.

At the time of writing (early 2020s) I’ve moved back to New Jersey, likely for good – though not without regrets. The West Coast will always have a special place in my heart.

I’ve spent many cumulative weeks each in the Pacific Northwest and South Florida, and have fond memories of both. Finally, I don’t consider myself super well traveled globally, but have had the immense pleasure of visiting Japan, Hawaii, the Caribbean, Canada, and the UK.

Where (else) to find me online

My email address is jeff [at] bitprophet [dot] org. And as you can probably guess, my online moniker is bitprophet, with various permutations as needed:

Mastodon: @bitprophet@social.coop
GitHub: bitprophet
Discord: bitprophet#2105

Signal: bitprophet.01

And some older ones I’m not super active on anymore:

Twitter - I don’t check this anymore, thanks Elon.
pinboard.in
Flickr

I’m not on Facebook; it doesn’t feel worth the time. Apparently they create entries for folks without accounts anyways, so…maybe I am on Facebook against my will? Kinda creepy.

In the past I’ve identified as “Cyrus” and can still be found using that name at MetaFilter and the FFVII Citadel (which I used to run, way back.)

GPG key

Below is the plaintext version of my GPG public key. It has been used in the past to sign PyPI packages, though this practice has fallen out of favor.