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## Experience:

### Software Engineer, Six Apart Inc.

*Six Apart, Inc - http://www.sixapart.com - September 2008 - Present*

Summary:

* Movable Type developer, working in perl 
* Movable Type core and plugin development
* Various perl command-line tools for data migration and testing
* unit testing with perl and custom MT testing tools
* python / Django development with TypePad APIs

[Six Apart](http://sixapart.com) is well-known as the company responsible for Movable Type, Typepad, VOX, and one-time owners of several other blogging and social networking sites (i.e. LiveJournal). I joined Six Apart's Services arm as a Movable Type developer, and my role was to build custom solutions for clients who were using Movable Type. This usually took the form of custom plugins that added new functionality to the core product, or modified and extended existing functionality. I spent nearly a year and half working on a team with our largest client, helping migrate their codebase and content from Movable Type 3.x to 4.x, including over 2 million blog entries, and 50