I am a self-taught computer person living in Chicago, IL 🌎 with my wife 👰 and three cats 🐈. I've been working in software since 2007 and I'm not even close to done yet.
📰 Posts
📚 Skills
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💬 Languages
- Go
- Python
- Javascript, Typescript
- Ruby
- PHP
- Shell scripting
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✨ Web Frontend
- HTML/CSS
- Bootstrap
- React
- Vue
- Angular
- Google Analytics and GTM
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☁️ Web Backend & Infrastructure
- AWS (Certified Solutions Architect)
- Terraform
- GraphQL
- Containerization
- Observability
- CI/CD
- MySQL, Postgres
- Non-relational databases
- Kafka
- Snowflake
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👥 People
- Agile
- Defining processes and developer platforms
- Team leadership and management
- Staff engineering and internal tooling
- I'm very funny
🎉 Interests
- Desktop Linux (Linux-only on all my machines for over ten years)
- Raspberry Pi and embedded development
- Virtualization with libvirt, KVM, qemu, VFIO
- Home IT infrastructure and personal cloud/homelabbing
- VDI and low-latency desktop streaming
- VR
- Video games
- House plants
- Self-hosting and owning my own data
- Health & fitness
- Some books I love:
- Design Patterns (Gang of Four)
- Site Reliability Engineering (Google)
- Microservices Patterns (Richardson)
- Domain-Driven Design (Evans)
- SICP (Abelson & Sussman)
- UNIX: A History and Memoir (Kernighan)
While I am happily employed and not actively looking for new opportunities, feel free to send an email if you'd like to get in touch.