Scott Vranesh-Fallin

While this site exists largely as a place to hang my résumé and CV online, it is largely under construction, as they used to say.

And now, something in the way of a bio:

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

Professionally, I work across Linux administration, open source database administration, and automation. I am also a polyglot developer. Some of the code I have written can be viewed on my GitHub page.

Writing and photography have always been twin (fraternal) avocations. I generally write essays — some of which have appeared in The Andersonville Advertiser, a small print newspaper in Booneville, California with a readership in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a camera, I work on long-running projects about people and place. A selection of essays and photographs appears below.

While I had a somewhat traditional collegate experience, I like to say that I consider the San Francisco Public Library to be my true alma mater, with the Alameda County Public Library serving as elementary and secondary school.

A little known fact about me is that I spent some time in art school, in San Francisco, studying both fine arts and documentary photography. I also lived at a Zen Center in Upstate New York, where I earned my keep working construction on a new Zendo (meditation hall). These days, I keep everything together with two 20-minute sessions of TM™ brand Transcendental Meditation a day.

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