User:Royfeldman

I have substantial experience with distributed computing, software tool and application development, and virtualization technologies. For 26 years, I have been a software developer, architect, strategist and entrepreneur and an active participant in several open source projects. My clients have included Fortune 500 companies such as Agilent Technologies, Bank of America, J.P. Morgan, Polo-Ralph Lauren, General Motors, Intel, NTT (Nippon Telephone & Telegraph), Nomura Securities, Nippon Life Insurance, and NASA.

I have worked with Java since 1997 and Linux since 2000. I have a strong foundation in Agile tools and processes, automated testing and deployment, open source project collaboration, functional programming, Java, Ruby, Python, Lisp, software design and architecture patterns, software development tools, expert systems, knowledge representation, software and business modelling, model driven development, and domain specific languages.

My current areas of focus are Cloud application development and tools and most recently, application development on ultra-cheap ARM based hardware running Linux.

I have built a lightweight Cloud app development toolkit on top of the Ubuntu Cloud service framework. It allows me to quickly combine a variety of application services to efficiently develop, test, and deploy distributed applications to either a public or private cloud.

I am using this toolkit for a new educational software platform. The goal is to develop cheap and self maintaining Linux desktops for online learning, running on ultra-cheap ARM-based hardware. The maintenance these desktops will be automated with the use of specialized cloud based services.