Software Engineer / Architect / Programmer (Myers-Briggs INTJ)
Mastery & builder identity (software craftsman)
- Funcle
- Lifelong learner
- Web applications
- Databases
- Background jobs
- Payment systems
- API integrations
- Software design
- System architecture & design
Using AI tools (Cursor Agents, GitHub Copilot & ChatGPT) to augment SWE workflows judiciously.
Keeping up with Ruby 3.5+ (Ractors) and Rails 8+ (Hotwire, SolidQueue) via technical books & RailsConf YouTube
- Programming
- Badminton
- Personal finance
- Exploring full multicore CPU utilization for CPU-bound tasks using Ruby 3.5+ Ractors (JSON parsing performance improvement)
- LLMs, RAG architectures, prompt engineering (AI Engineering by Chip Huyen)
- System design ideas around scaling data-intensive systems for reliability, scalability, and maintainability (Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann)
- Homemade ceremonial matcha π΅ (L-theanine for mental focus)
- "What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself." β Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
- Confucius say: "Man who run in front of car get tired; man who run behind car get exhausted." β Confucius on driving the car and staying focused in the moment
| Ruby | Java | C | JavaScript | CSS3 | HTML5 | Intel IXP IA-32 Microcode | Perl | QBasic |
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| Rails | Gosu | Turbo |
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| PostgreSQL | MongoDB |
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| Docker | Heroku |
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| Ubuntu | Umbrel | macOS |
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| Vim | RubyMine | Git |
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| Cursor | ChatGPT | GitHub Copilot |
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