trimentation.com
Trimentation is the central web home for Addie Beseda, a software engineer and cat lover who is perpetually seeking balance in the Portland, Oregon metro area.
The name trimentation was devised while seeking a unique domain that fit my personality: mentation for my overactive brain and love of wordplay; tri for that excess of thinking and as a tribute to my favorite prime and the endless multiples in its family.
Professional
I am a software engineer who will be rounding out my fourth year in industry in the summer of 2010. I work with web applications; primarily scripting languages and the LAMP stack. I continue to seek out my "match" with regards to language and platform for this type of work; I have no explicit specialty just yet.
I keep a technical blog called Tech & Troublemaking.
I am (finally) starting to build out a presence on github. Check there for code samples; I'm hoping to have more very soon!
You can find an online copy of my resume here. (It's currently in pdf format; I will have a more web-readable format available soon.)
Job status: I am currently happily employed at Gilt Groupe, as the third member of the newly-opened Portland office. We are hiring technical folks in both the Portland, OR and New York, NY areas and I'm enjoying playing with technologies from Ruby to Java to Scala on a daily basis.
Personal
My overall focus is consistently balance and health of the whole self: it's an ongoing journey rich with "areas for improvement" even in the best of circumstances.
I'm a hobbyist juggling too many interests and a frequent craving for mastery.
At present: I actively involve myself with my cats, vegetarian cooking, baby ketten karaoke, gardening, dancing, sewing, current events, and a good book or word / logic puzzle.
At present: I actively yearn to (re-)engage myself with distance running, yoga, mindfulness practice, free-time coding projects, immersion in the Portland tech community, open source, knitting / crochet, travel, and new people / experiences.
You can find me elsewhere on the web in the typical places:
... and if you haven't grown up on the Web with a name that is unique to you alone, a simple Google search can reveal even more "web presence" than anybody who recalls being thirteen would care to acknowledge.