Scott Vranesh-Fallin

I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently reside in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., with my wife of 20 years and our two rescue cats.

Professionally, I work across Linux administration, automation, and open source database administration. Further, I am 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.

By day, I work an IT job.

I have had a life-long interest in the martial arts. I am a 3rd Kyū in Judo (which doesn't really count since I was just a kid), a 6th 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 at the apprentice level of Libre Fighting and am starting to study the journeyman material. I 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, the fact that it is physically accessible for me personally, the inspiration it draws from Iaido, and its focus on progression through the material, and not on the acquisition of colored belts and titles.

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.