A "journalistic-motorcycle-stunting-gypsy" would probably best describe my role in the summer of 2011. My personal project fueled by pure passion had led me to travel a criss-crossed path from ocean to ocean across America for the majority of 2010 and finally over the Atlantic to experience the European version for 2011.

This passion of course is motorcycle stunt riding.

It had captured my Type A, but paradoxically still shy and reserved teenage imagination in high school and ravaged my life like the bubonic plague from that point on. At 15 I started practicing the evolving urban sport and carried it with me to Los Angeles for my first job in video games. Seven years later in New York City I was still stunting and finally my hobby peaked with the decision I should take a sabbatical from my professional career to dedicate my time and skills to help it grow into its fledging maturity.

Lately I've spent my free time working on a generic, distributed build project along the lines of Electric Cloud or Incredibuild. One of the main components of this system involves not only executing processes remotely, but to synchronize the input and output files for each operation between the systems.

Along the road to coming up with a robust, battle-ready solution I tried many things. Finding the right balance of security, practicallity and ease of setup was a trying process (yes, I'm looking at you OpenLDAP).