Vincent dePaul

 

Vincent DePaul (once known as Ghetalion) heralds from the great state of New Jersey and has unsavory memories of his youth being spent as yet another case of unwanted loin waste.  Post-Boomer “adults” took turns ruining his childhood with their emotional drunkenness, so it was a natural when he found solace in the predictability and power of machinery and computational devices.  By the age of 12, he had made his first web page.  By the age of 15, he had learned QBASIC.  At 16, he was making music on Digitrakker. At 17, he was in advanced C++ courses.  By 1997, his site, Ghetalion.com, had been issuing out Hip-Hop music to the exploding online music community to the tune of 400,000 hits a month.  He received his first ASCAP credit by 18 for his incredible multi-planetary smash single (read: extreme fucking sarcasm) “We Got Panache” by Princess Superstar.

Jersey provided few outlets for people such as himself and it wasn’t long until he was brought into the rank and file of doing manual labor with immigrants for two years. Growing weary of referring to his boss as jefe, he attended Full Sale Sail University in 2002 and graduated a year later with an Associates in Audio Recording Arts. In 2003, he struck out westward and ended up in Los Angeles, where he currently resides.  He performed three years of slave labor studio engineering at VoiceOver LA and managed to land a few voice over roles for Toyota, the L.A. Angles, most notably as Nightmare from Soul Caliber 3 and 4.

He stumbled into the web programming industry out of dumb luck and before long, became fluent with PHP, MySQL, CentOS, Apache, Ruby, jQuery, Python, Flex, and countless other Web 2.0 platforms/technologies/easy-mode finger-painting. His framework, CAIN, powered EternalSpace.com before its untimely demise at the beginning of the Great Recession in 2008. In three months, he revolutionized how Guthy-Ranker (masters and commanders of Proactiv) runs their Web Operations with a little project management tool called Redmine. Today, he is a Director at a world-class record label, directing code and people to do things that only code and people can do.

His upcoming book, The Empath, elaborates on his political and economic theories without steamrolling over the fragile sensibilities of the average Neoliberal consumer.

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