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- Hi, my name is Zev. I live in the Northeast of the United States.
+Hi, my name is Zev. I live in Burlington, Vermont, in the United States.
-I love to help small businesses solve their worst headaches through technology. Here are a few projects I've completed to that effect.
+I love to help small businesses solve their worst headaches via technology. Here are a few projects I've completed to that effect.
-I also love contributing to open source software, as you can see on my Github timeline.
+I also love contributing to open source software, as you can see on my Github timeline (external link).
+ +You can reach me at zev or z at this domain.
In 2015 a couple friends and I made Tappt (external link) at a hackathon. It's a web app that allows users to search for keywords inside videos. We've since fleshed it out into a commercial service. It's running on Python 3.6 and uses Celery. +
In the fall of 2017 I designed, implemented, and deployed a work assigner for Averbach Transcription (external link) in Python 3.6. This is run as a background process, assigning transcription work automatically based on transcribers' current workloads and general capacities. It saves Averbach Transcription 5-10 hours of labor every week in assigning and re-assigning transcription projects. This is a private project.
+In the summer of 2016 I designed, implemented, and deployed automatic invoice generation for Averbach Transcription (external link) in Python 3.5. This integrates with Freshbooks web API v2.1, generating invoices from completed transcription projects. It saves Averbach Transcription 10+ hours of labor every month compared to the old manual invoicing process. This is a private project.
+In the summer of 2017 I made a fun little proof of concept SMS budget bot for a blog post (external link) I wrote for the Twilio Voices Blog. +