Hello. I'm Drew Roos, and I love to code. I recently realized that most of the things I've messed around with no one has ever seen. Hence, this website: a place to catalog and showcase my work.
I enjoy programming projects of all stripes, but I have a particular interest in: geospatial, algorithms, math/physics, monte-carlo methods, and rendering / visualization / eye-candy.
I currently reside with my wife in her home town of Cape Town, South Africa (i.e., paradise on Earth). Prior to that we lived in NYC, where I had a stint at Google New York. Before that I worked at Dimagi, where my day job was improving healthcare in the developing world through a smorgasbord of technology projects and field work: mobile apps, SMS, solar-powered kiosks in clinics, etc. I graduated from Georgia Tech with a BS in Computer Science. I went to Choate for high school. I skipped two grades. I grew up in Connecticut.
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maps, GIS, geolocation, geo-anything, navigation, travel, borders, significant figures,
python, DVCS, postgres, dataflow, yaml, lambdas, cabling, kitting out, retrogaming,
jwz,
french house, hot tubs, bikeshare, amazon prime,
daylight savings[sic] time, honey bunches of oats, space elevators, spacex
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xml,
aliasing, php, perl, shell scripting, mysql,
caché/MUMPS,
peters projection, tipping, innumeracy, earth hour, referring to a city by its airport code,
watered-down soap, waiting in line behind people buying lottery tickets,
people repeating your joke more loudly than you and getting credit for it,
"i'm all for [x], but [opinion betraying complete misunderstanding of x]",
"i don't mean to [x], but [x]"
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