Role and Company
Partner, Fictive Kin
Expertise
15 years experience in information technology
Location
West Lafayette, IN
About Edward
Ed Finkler started making web sites before browsers had frames. He does front-end and server-side work in Python, PHP, and JavaScript.
He served as web lead and security researcher at The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University (http://www.cerias.purdue.edu) for 9 years. Now he's a proud member of the Fictive Kin (http://fictivekin.com) team. Along with Chris Hartjes, Ed is co-host of the Development Hell podcast (http://devhell.info).
Ed's current passion is raising mental health awareness in the tech community with his "Open Sourcing Mental Illness (http://funkatron.com/osmi) speaking campaign. He is part of "Engine Yard's Prompt (http://prompt.engineyard.com) campaign.
Ed writes at http://funkatron.com.