name: 'Zach DeCook'
info:
  label: Programmer
  image: ""
  brief: ""
contact:
  email: zachdecook@librem.one
  phone: ""
  website: 'https://zachdecook.com'
meta:
  format: FRESH@^1.0.0-beta
  modified: '2019-12-12T04:35:53.616Z'
location:
  city: 'Grand Rapids'
  region: Michigan
  country: US
  code: ""
  address: ""
employment:
  history:
    -
      position: 'Web Programmer'
      employer: 'Christian Classics Ethereal Library'
      summary: 'Debug and refactor old code base and write efficient queries for large database. Improve internal search index. Manage and develop code for Drupal, Wordpress, and Laravel-based websites. Provide useful and informative feedback through code review. Recover and reconfigure servers. Contribute to external open-source projects.'
      current: true
      start: '2016-02'
      end: "2021-09"
      url: 'https://ccel.org'
      keywords: []
      highlights: []
    -
      position: 'Technology Consultant'
      employer: 'Bangla Ministries Worldwide'
      summary: 'Advise web hosting options for Wordpress site. Update server and maintain website.'
      current: true
      start: "2018-05"
      end: ""
      url: 'https://banglaministries.org'
      keywords: []
      highlights: []
    -
      position: 'Technical Director'
      employer: 'Shaping The Silence Music'
      summary: 'Program and debug microcontrollers in MIDI instruments. Develop, design, and maintain website.'
      current: false
      start: '2013-01'
      end: "2018-05"
      url: 'https://shapingthesilence.com'
      keywords: []
      highlights: []
education:
  level: ""
  history:
    -
      institution: 'Calvin College'
      start: 'September 2014'
      end: 'May 2018'
      grade: '3.29'
      curriculum: []
      summary: ""
      area: 'Computer Science'
      studyType: 'Bachelor''s in Computer Science'
service: {}
skills:
  sets:
    -
      name: 'Web Development'
      level: Master
      skills:
        - HTML
        - CSS
        - Javascript
        - PHP
        - MySQL
    -
      name: 'Software Programming'
      level: Master
      skills:
        - C++
        - C
        - Python
        - Go
        #- Java
        #- E-lisp
    -
      name: 'Server/Service Management'
      level: Master
      skills:
        - Ansible
        - Docker
        - Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
        - Hypervisor VM management (XCP-ng, XOA)
        - Cloud VPS management #(Digital Ocean, Amazon Lightsail)
        - Cloud DNS record management #(1&1 IONOS, Digital Ocean)
    -
      name: 'Electronics Hardware'
      level: Capable
      skills:
        - 'Interfacing components with microcontroller'
writing: []
recognition:
  -
    title: 'CCSC Midwest Programming Contest: 2nd Place'
    date: 'September 2017'
    from: 'Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges'
    summary: 'For solving programming problems quickly. With partner Micah Ng.'
social:
  -
    label: Github
    network: Github
    url: 'https://github.com/earboxer'
    user: earboxer
  -
    label: Thingiverse
    network: Thingiverse
    url: 'https://www.thingiverse.com/earboxer/designs'
    user: earboxer
  -
    label: sr.ht/~earboxer
    network: sourcehut
    url: 'https://git.sr.ht/~earboxer'
    user: earboxer
interests:
  -
    name: '3D Printing'
    keywords:
      - 'CAD Modeling'
  -
    name: Music
    keywords:
      - singing
      #- beatboxing
      - piano
      #- organ
      - 'ukulele, guitar'
      - drums
testimonials: 0
languages:
  -
    language: English
    fluency: 'Native speaker.'
  -
    language: Spanish
    fluency: 'Often able to understand.'
  -
    language: Bengali
    fluency: 'Understand simple sentences, verbs.'