Scott Vranesh-Fallin

I live with my wife of 20 years and our two rescue cats in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.

Professionally, I work across Linux administration, automation, and open source database administration. I am also a polyglot developer, skilled in Python, Ruby, Scheme, Java, C/C++, PHP, etc). Some of the code I have written can be viewed on my GitHub page.

I have a life-long interest in the martial arts. I am a 4th Kyū in Aikido and an 8th Kyū in Iaido. I have studied several other arts but Aikido and Iaido were my favorites. Injuries now keep me from practicing either art, so, imagine my surprise to find Libre Knife Fighting Guild, an art that interested me, and one that I could participate in fully, at that. I am currently working on my journeyman materal and have plans to visit the San Diego home group in the near future. Among the things I like about Libre are its strong focus on technique, its physical accessibility for me personally, the inspiration it draws from Iaido, and its focus on progression through the material, while not on the acquisition of colored belts

I am also a student of Spanish. I am very much a beginner, though I do know how to swear a bit.

Outside of that, I am a writer busy at work on my first novel in my carefully guarded free time.