About

Chip has worked in a variety of roles throughout his career, primarily specializing in Open Source tools such as Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Javascript Prototype and Linux.

Chip Castle Founder & developer

Chip has worked as a software developer since 1994

Who Dat?

Chip loves to travel - for fun - not business. Please feel free to take a look at the adventures he and his wife have taken. And yo, check it! Chip is a huge fan of DJ Tiesto , Bill Maher , The New Orleans Saints and Ali-G . Further evidence is shown on his blog, also known as Booyakasha! . Maximum Respeck, Aight?

Objective

After 15 years of programming professionally, Chip's goal is to enjoy his craft and the tools required to do a top-notch job. That means working with Ruby on Rails in a telecommuting environment, while continuing to contribute to various open source projects such as Watir on Rails, ActiveMerchant (Braintree enhancements), his Ruby gem for managing Apache virtual hosts on OSX, a2osx , and his Rails plugins, basic_form_builder and shopping_cart . He also enjoys learning as much as possible about the *nix environment, especially Ubuntu Linux and Mac OS X, to improve his SysAdmin-fu.

Career Highlights

1990 - Started learning Unix. Let the geekness ensue.
1996 - Founded Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. , 1 year after completing graduate school.
2004 - Founded Acquire Technologies, LLC, offering cradle-to-the-grave IT services for over a dozen land title insurance companies in the Florida panhandle region, administering a number of Mandriva and Ubuntu Linux servers during that time for mail, web and dns services.
2006 - Sold Acquire Technologies, LLC to Stewart Title Guaranty Company .
2007 - Started working with Ruby on Rails. Regrets not learning Ruby in 2000. Whaaaaah!!!
2008 - Founded Invoice That to fulfill a dream of building web-based software tools that are useful and intuitive.

Education

M.S., Software Engineering. The University of West Florida Pensacola, FL 1995.
B.S., Computer Information Systems. The University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 1994.