I'm Jeff Nettleton — a programmer, a coder, a tinkerer, and one incredibly interested person. I live in San Francisco , although I hail from southern California. I am a voracious reader, and greatly enjoy reading books about history, human interaction, and programming. I am a big proponent of educating oneself endlessly, and doing things that help me learn. I write code that does neat (at least to me) stuff, like taking a lot of data and turning it into a beautiful, functional visualization, or re-thinking the way that public records access can be used to bring about positive change. My passion lies at the intersection of technology and public policy. I also love cooking, playing soccer, and walking while musing.

Early in my programming career, I worked with a great deal of C, C++, and C# writing low-level systems applications, such as integrating sensor devices with a data collection and reporting suite. These days, however, I generally work on web applications in Python, which I also do some data analysis and processing in. I also enjoy working in the Rust programming language, which I find fascinating and has gotten me to think differently about architecture and systems design. I love working with databases, particularly PostgreSQL. I have in the past had a great time leveraging D3.js for data visualizations of many kinds. Lately, I've been tinkering with compilers and cross-language interfaces, primarily Python modules written in Rust. Although I've worked on Windows both professionally and personally for many years, I much prefer working in the *nix style environments, with Arch Linux being my favorite. I code in ViM.