Hello, I am Ted Price

I have over 20 years of professional software development experience. I have worked at companies, and in teams, of all sizes, with varying degrees of process sophistication, complexity, and agility.

I am happy with my current employer, but always interested to hear about what you are up to!

The Human Side

I am

Edward "Ted" Price
Simsbury, CT (Eastern US)
Software Engineer
tedprice@duck.com

I enjoy

  • Any activities involving the kids!
  • Learning Spanish
  • Weight training, Peloton
  • Biking, hiking, walking, skiing/snowboarding, surfing
  • Writing, learning the craft
  • Some day I hope to get back to....
    • BJJ
    • Piano
    • Birding

I cofounded or launched

  • Fishing! (J2ME Game)
  • Lonely Odyssey (Self-guided touring app)
  • BibleVersesByPhone (Telephony, etc)
  • TheSlingshot / Knowd (Ad network)

I am working on

  • Coming soon!

I blog about

    The Software Side

    I like

    • Shipping business value: giving customers tools they use and love.
    • Continuous learning
    • Always looking for the challenge, especially audacious goals!
    • Working with people who are good-enough to get the job done and make the work fun!

    I develop in

    • Ruby: Rails, Sinatra
    • Python: Django, Flask, numpy/matplotlib/scipy
    • Javascript: Node, React, JAMStack, etc
    • Java: Spring Boot
    • SQL

    I use

    • MySQL, Postgres, MariaDB, SQLite
    • RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, Kafka
    • Amazon Web Services (the whole shmear! or much of it!)
    • Snowflake, Firebase, on-prem, etc

    I contribute to

    • Idea, feature card creation, backlog grooming
    • documentation throughout the development lifecycle
    • Predicting, measurng, and iterating on feature KPIs

    I am also interested in

    • Bitcoin / Lightining Network (Global commerce and payment systems)
    • Large Language Models (AI), multimodal
    • MIDI
    • Complex Systems