About Me

Wedding photo with SaxophoneFull Name: Stephen Rees-Carter
Nicknames: Valorin & SRC
Online Identities : Twitter, Google+, GitHub, Stack Exchange, Launchpad, and LinkedIn.
Occupation: Software Engineer
Stack Overflow Careers 2.0 Profile

Facts about me

  • 26 year old from from Canberra ACT Yass NSW, Australia.
  • Married to a beautiful wife since November 2009, Father to a super cute son since March 2012.
  • Software Engineer (Programmer/Analyst), working for InterSect Alliance since June 2012.
  • Previously worked for UberGlobal as a Platform Engineer (aka Software Engineer) 2008 – 2012.
  • Follower of Jesus Christ, and member of Tuggeranong Baptist Church, and co-leader of the Yarralumla Uniting Church Youth Group.
  • Saxophonist: Baritone Sax in In Full Swing (local Canberra community big band), Tenor/Baritone Sax in Last Minute Jazz (small Jazz band), and part of the music team at TBC.
  • Geek: Ubuntu on my Thinkpad, Android on my HTC One XL, and a large pile of Nerf guns in my room…
  • Proud Amazon Kindle owner, Shelfari user, and avid reader of epic fantasy novels – see my bookshelf.
  • Pets: two cats, a dog, and two horses…

Qualifications

  • Formal
  • Informal
    • Computer Science 101 from Coursera (free online basic programming course).
    • Learn to Program: The Fundamentals from Coursera (free online Python programming course).

Geeky Stuff

  • Ubuntu is my preferred Operating System for both desktops/laptops and servers, although for a really rock solid server you can’t go wrong with Debian.
  • My favourite PHP framework is Zend Framework. I’ve been using it since early v1, and it’s still keeping me happy.
  • For Javascript I use jQuery - it makes coding javascript slightly less painful.
  • HTML and CSS I prefer to write by hand :)
  • Geany is my favourite IDE, and I love the built in web browser – it makes development so much faster when you can instantly see your changes live.

profile for Valorin on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites

My Devices:

  • eReader
    • Amazon Kindle Touch 3G
    • w/ Black Amazon cover with Light
  • Laptop
    • Ubuntu 12.10
    • Lenovo ThinkPad L520
    • Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz
    • 6 GB DDR3 SDRAM
    • 15.6″ HD+ (1600×900)
    • Intel HD Graphics 3000 processor graphics
    • 500GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
  • Phone
    • HTC One XL
    • Android 4.0 ICS (stock with HTC Sense)
  • Home Server
    • HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L
    • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
    • 4x 2TB Hard drives w/ btrfs
  • Web Server
    • VMware VPS @ UberGlobal
    • Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS
    • Apache2, PHP, MySQL, etc :)