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<h1 id="username">risaacson:</h1>

<h2 id="name">Richard Isaacson - Systems Monkey</h2>

<p>I am and have been a Senior Software Engineer, a Cloud Support Engineer, a Senior Systems Engineer, and a Unix Administrator. I love to learn through prototyping.</p>

<p>I have been focusing on bringing together backend services using <a href="http://nodejs.org/">NodeJS</a> for the interfaces and <a href="http://python.org/">Python</a> for backend processing. I have been using <a href="http://hapijs.com/">hapi</a> for the web framework that I build systems on as well as <a href="http://celeryproject.org/">Celery</a> as a task queue. I prefer <a href="">Ansible</a> over <a href="https://www.getchef.com/">Chef</a> and <a href="http://puppetlabs.com/">Puppet</a> because it gets out of the way of the Systems Engineer.</p>

<p>I focus on being a backend developer. Though I have been doing some frontend work playing with <a href="https://www.polymer-project.org/">Polymer</a> or <a href="https://angularjs.org/">AngularJS</a> to bring my pages out of the 1990s.</p>

<p>Some of my code and other projects: <a href="http://github.com/risaacson/">risaacson@github</a></p>

<p>Container images I have built: <a href="https://hub.docker.com/">risaacson@hub.docker.com</a></p>

<p>My LinkedIn profile: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/risaacson">risaacson@linkedin</a></p>

<p>I organize the day of event volunteers for: <a href="http://minnestar.org/">minne<b>*</b></a></p>

<p>I attend local user groups:
    <a href="http://arduino.mn/">Arduino of Minnesota</a>,
    <a href="http://www.meetup.com/gdg-tc/">Google Developer Group</a>,
    <a href="http://www.meetup.com/JavaScriptMN/">JavaScriptMN</a>,
    <a href="http://www.meetup.com/NodeMN/">NodeMN</a>,
    <a href="http://www.penguinsunbound.com/">Penguins Unbound</a> (a Twin Cities Based Linux User Group),
    <a href="http://www.meetup.com/PyMNtos-Twin-Cities-Python-User-Group">PyMNtos</a>,
    <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-D3js/">Twin Cities D3.js Meetup Group</a>,
    <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-Infracoders">Twin Cities Infracoders</a>,
    <a href="http://www.intertech.com/Free-Developer-Training/UserGroups/JavaUserGroup">TCJUG</a> (Twin Cities Java User
    Group), and
    <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-Visualization-Group/">Twin Cities (Data) Visualization Group</a>
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<p>Some of my presentations: <a href="https://github.com/risaacson/presentations">risaacson/presentations</a></p>

<h3>Classes Taught</h3>
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        <th>When</th>
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        <th>Course ID</th>
        <th>Section</th>
        <th>Title</th>
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        <td>2016 Fall</td>
        <td>Hennepin Technical College - EPC</td>
        <td>CCIS</td>
        <td>2122</td>
        <td>40</td>
        <td>Linux Administration II</td>
        <td>4</td>
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        <td>2016 Spring</td>
        <td>Hennepin Technical College - EPC</td>
        <td>CCIS</td>
        <td>1121</td>
        <td>40</td>
        <td>Linux Administration I</td>
        <td>3</td>
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        <td>2016 Spring</td>
        <td>Hennepin Technical College - EPC</td>
        <td>CCIS</td>
        <td>1135</td>
        <td>40</td>
        <td>Desktop Linux</td>
        <td>3</td>
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        <td>2015 Fall</td>
        <td>Hennepin Technical College - BPC</td>
        <td>CCIS</td>
        <td>1135</td>
        <td>53</td>
        <td>Desktop Linux</td>
        <td>3</td>
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<h3>Classes Taken</h3>
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        <th>When</th>
        <th>Institution</th>
        <th>Department</th>
        <th>Course ID</th>
        <th>Title</th>
        <th>Instructor</th>
        <th>Credits</th>
        <th>Completed</th>
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        <td>2017 Fall</td>
        <td>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities</td>
        <td>SENG</td>
        <td>5861</td>
        <td>Introduction to Software Architecture</td>
        <td>Michael Whalen</td>
        <td>3</td>
        <td>Pending</td>
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        <td>2017 Fall</td>
        <td>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities</td>
        <td>SENG</td>
        <td>5851</td>
        <td>Software Project Management</td>
        <td>Praveen Mittal</td>
        <td>3</td>
        <td>Pending</td>
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        <td>2017 Fall</td>
        <td>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities</td>
        <td>SENG</td>
        <td>5899</td>
        <td>Industrial Seminar Series</td>
        <td>Michael Whalen</td>
        <td>1</td>
        <td>Pending</td>
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        <td>2017 Spring</td>
        <td>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities</td>
        <td>SENG</td>
        <td>5802</td>
        <td>Software Engineering II: Software Design</td>
        <td>Kevin Wendt</td>
        <td>3</td>
        <td>Yes</td>
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        <td>2017 Spring</td>
        <td>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities</td>
        <td>SENG</td>
        <td>5811</td>
        <td>Software Testing and Verification</td>
        <td>Neil Bitzenhofer</td>
        <td>2</td>
        <td>Yes</td>
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        <td>2017 Spring</td>
        <td>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities</td>
        <td>SENG</td>
        <td>5852</td>
        <td>Quality Assurance and Process Improvement</td>
        <td>Stephen Kan, Ph.D., Ian De Silva</td>
        <td>3</td>
        <td>Yes</td>
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        <td>2016 Fall</td>
        <td>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities</td>
        <td>SENG</td>
        <td>5707</td>
        <td>Data Modeling</td>
        <td>John Carlis</td>
        <td>3</td>
        <td>Yes</td>
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        <td>2016 Fall</td>
        <td>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities</td>
        <td>SENG</td>
        <td>5801</td>
        <td>Software Engineering I: Overview, Requirements, and Modeling</td>
        <td>Mats Heimdahl</td>
        <td>3</td>
        <td>Yes</td>
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        <td>2016 Fall</td>
        <td>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities</td>
        <td>SENG</td>
        <td>5899</td>
        <td>Industrial Seminar Series</td>
        <td>Michael Whalen</td>
        <td>1</td>
        <td>Yes</td>
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