Todd Birchard
Former product manager turned data engineer with ongoing identity crisis. Breaks everything before learning concepts known as ‘best practices’. Completely normal and emotionally stable.
Education
Drexel University
Work
Software Engineer at Fanduel
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GitHub Repositories
plotlydash-flask-tutorial
📊📉 Embed Plotly Dash into your Flask applications.
Less• 478 stars
flasklogin-tutorial
👨💻 🔑 Build Flask apps with user creation and log-in functionally.
Python• 215 stars
ghosttheme-stockholm
👻 📝 ✨ Clean Ghost theme with advanced features & customization.
Less• 67 stars
jira-database-etl
🚹 💾 Script to import issues from a JIRA instance into a database.
Python• 53 stars
gatsby-ghost-tokyo
👻 🗼 ✨ Minimalist Ghost theme emphasizing readability, load times, and customization.
JavaScript• 18 stars
pythonmyadmin
🐍🖥 Lightweight GUI for modifying database tables.
Python• 18 stars
tableau-extraction
📈➡️💾 A Flask application which extends Tableau to be used as an ETL tool.
Python• 18 stars
linkbox-api
🔗 📦 A single endpoint which generates metadata previews of any given URL.
Python• 15 stars
hackersandslackers-api-old
🔌 Standalone API to handle account creation, auto-publish to medium, and sitewide link embeds.
Python• 1 star
ghostthemes.io
👻 ✅ Static site serving premium Ghost themes.
HTML
Skills/Languages
Python for Data Science, Automation, ETL workflows, and general backend development. Obsessed with the GatsbyJS/React/GraphQL JAMStack for personal sites. Also 8 years of product management experience and 2 years of technical lead experience.
Currently learning
Golang.
Currently hacking on
Mostly recently in my endless stream of project ideas, I created an MVP to hack Tableau Server by exploiting loopholes in their security and API, which took me roughly one night: https://hackersandslackers.com/hostile-extraction-of-tableau-server-data/
Tomorrow will bring something similarly ridiculous and ambitious.
Available for
I want to talk to people smarter than myself. If you’re looking for a technical cofounder for your big idea, I’m not your guy: as somebody who had bigger ideas for a decade, I probably think your knee-jerk idea is stupid :).
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