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daattali
Update aboutme.html
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| layout: page | |
| title: About me | |
| subtitle: "Or: why you'd want to go on a date with me" | |
| css: "/css/aboutme.css" | |
| --- | |
| <div id="aboutme-section"> | |
| <p class="about-text"> | |
| <span class="fa fa-briefcase about-icon"></span> | |
| Currently an <a href="/shiny"><strong>R-Shiny consultant</strong></a>. Previously worked as a <strong>software engineer</strong> (Google, IBM, <a href="https://tagged.com" target="_blank">Tagged.com</a>) and <strong>web | |
| developer</strong> in tiny startups (<a href="https://wish.com" target="_blank">Wish.com</a>, | |
| <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121223025414/https://www.makeupbee.com/looks.php" target="_blank">MakeupBee.com</a>, | |
| <a href="http://glittr.com" target="_blank">glittr.com</a>, | |
| <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120309093005/https://www.jauntr.com/" target="_blank">jauntr.com</a>). | |
| </p> | |
| <p class="about-text"> | |
| <span class="fa fa-graduation-cap about-icon"></span> | |
| Obtained my MSc in <strong>Bioinformatics</strong> from the University of British Columbia (supervised by the amazing | |
| <a href="https://twitter.com/JennyBryan" target="_blank">Jenny Bryan</a>) and my Bachelor of <strong>Computer Science</strong> from the | |
| University of Waterloo, Canada. My masters thesis project involved | |
| <a href="https://github.com/daattali/ddpcr" target="_blank">developing computational methods to automatically analyze | |
| droplet digital PCR</a> data. | |
| </p> | |
| <p class="about-text"> | |
| <span class="fa fa-code about-icon"></span> | |
| I enjoy writing <strong>useful & reusable software tools</strong> to help others — check out <a href="/projects">my projects</a>. In the past several years I've become an experienced R useR and an expert in R-Shiny. | |
| </p> | |
| <p class="about-text"> | |
| <span class="fa fa-heart about-icon"></span> | |
| I'm addicted to soccer, <strong>travelling</strong> at any given (and non-given) moment, getting into philosophical debates, | |
| and meeting new people :) | |
| </p> | |
| <p class="about-text"> | |
| <span class="fa fa-file-text-o about-icon"></span> | |
| The <strong><a href="/projects">projects</a></strong> page is a nice place to see some of my work, but you can also view my (somewhat outdated) <a href="/resume">resume</a>. | |
| </p> | |
| <p class="about-text"> | |
| <span class="fa fa-globe about-icon"></span> | |
| Grew up in <i>Tel Aviv, Israel</i>; moved to <i>Toronto, Canada</i> during my teens; worked in <i>San Francisco</i> after undergrad; crossed the border again to <i>Vancouver, Canada</i> for grad school; spent many months in other countries backpacking; returned to <i>Toronto</i> in 2017. | |
| </p> | |
| <p>I also have <a href="https://deanat78.wordpress.com/">an old blog</a>, mostly from high school and some old travelling trips, that I'll leave here just because I want to have a reference to it somewhere.</p> | |
| </div> | |
| <div id="contactme-section"> | |
| <h1 id="contact">Contact</h1> | |
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| <div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert"> | |
| I will be away until Feb 6, with very limited time to work. My responses will be slow during this period. | |
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| <p>You can <a href="mailto:dean@attalitech.com?subject=Hello from deanattali.com">email me</a> or find me <a href="https://twitter.com/daattali">on Twitter</a> if you want to get in touch. As I said, I love meeting new people so don't hesitate to send a message!</p> | |
| <p>My fulltime job is consulting work in R and Shiny, so feel free to get in touch if you want to discuss potential projects, your Shiny needs, or need any paid help.</p> | |
| <p>If you'd like to set up a meeting with me, <a href="https://calendly.com/attalitech/meeting">click here to schedule a meeting</a> based on your availability.</p> | |
| <form action="https://formspree.io/dean@attalitech.com" method="POST" class="form" id="contact-form"> | |
| <p>You can also send me a quick message using the form below:</p> | |
| <div class="row"> | |
| <div class="col-xs-6"> | |
| <input type="email" name="_replyto" class="form-control input-lg" placeholder="Email" title="Email"> | |
| </div> | |
| <div class="col-xs-6"> | |
| <input type="text" name="name" class="form-control input-lg" placeholder="Name" title="Name"> | |
| </div> | |
| </div> | |
| <input type="hidden" name="_subject" value="New submission from deanattali.com"> | |
| <textarea type="text" name="content" class="form-control input-lg" placeholder="Message" title="Message" required="required" rows="3"></textarea> | |
| <input type="text" name="_gotcha" style="display:none"> | |
| <input type="hidden" name="_next" value="./aboutme?message=Your message was sent successfully, thanks!" /> | |
| <div style="font-size: 12px; margin: -10px 0 10px;">Please do not use this form to send me full code samples or ask me to fix your app for free. Due to the volume of questions I receive I unfortuantely cannot offer free support.</div> | |
| <button type="submit" class="btn btn-lg btn-primary">Submit</button> | |
| </form> | |
| <p id="address">If you'd like to get in touch and are very old-school, you can send a letter to:<br/>102 Beverley Glen Blvd, Thornhill, ON L4J7V2, Canada.</p> | |
| </div> | |
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| <div id="feed-meeee"> | |
| <br/> | |
| <h1>Help feed me & my coding obsession</h1> | |
| <p>If you want to show your support for any of the <a href="/projects">open source projects</a> I devote my time to, here's a PayPal Donate button that you may click :)</p> | |
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| <p>My open source work started as a fun hobby, but as my tools and blog got more popular, it has turned into a full-time job commitment. Except with 0 pay and no employer benefits :) I would really appreciate if you support my hard work, so that I'll be able to shop at fancy Whole Foods once in a while!</p> | |
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