Software Engineer with hundreds of years of experience (or feels like it anyway). Started programming when I was 14, did a project for the NY Times at age 16.
My code is cleaner than my room.™️
BE toolbelt: PHP + Symfony & Laravel Ruby + Rails SQL NoSQL REST GraphQL
FE toolbelt: React Redux Apollo
DevOps: Docker Kubernetes a Terraform AWS EKS, ECS SNS, SQS
+ CI/CD: Jenkins Groovy CircleCI
Mgmt: Agile + Kanban & Scrum Spotify model - tribes, squads, pods, guilds
Agile: A cycle time hawk, delivery predictability fan, and Sprint Ceremonies child.
Obviously: Git Linux macOS Windows Bash > Shell HTML 4 & 5 CSS 2 & 3
Fan of TDD, but not religious about it.
Currently improving: Golang Kubernetes Terraform Networking
StayInside™️ free-time utilisation: Learning Go & pair programming with my mom (she's doing a coding bootcamp).
Passionate about drumming, acting, sports involving balance (*boarding, skiing), and of course, software and machine learning.
2 truths and a lie:
- I first started programming on Flash / ActionScript
- I'm a leading role in a famous TV commercial, which is still in rotation in the UK
- I was in a band and we played a few gigs, with our repertoire of 3 songs in total