You're probably wondering how I went from a cute little 80's kid posing like Burt Reynolds in that picture to the grizzled old coder I am today. I guess life, uh, finds a way. 🦖

These days if I'm not hacking on the keyboard I might be flying drones, watching/playing some kind of sports, smoking a brisket Texas BBQ style or some other kind of grilling, being amazed by astronomy, listening to podcasts, or catching up on one of my favorite movies or television series.

As far as my career as a developer goes. Here's what the timeline looks like. I'll try to keep this up to date:

• 1995-96: True BASIC and QBASIC (and playing Solitaire, Minesweeper and loads of SkiFree, let's be honest)
• 1996-97: Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++ and Delphi
• 1998: Visual Basic 4/5 (first real programming job after high school)
• 1999: HTML, CSS, and classic ASP with VBScript and JavaScript. ActiveX and COM/DCOM. T-SQL/PL-SQL/MS Access. Just got into DAO as it was being replaced by ADO. So long Jet Database Engine! Oh, and also Visual Source Safe. #LongLiveSourceSafe #JustKidding #NotReally
• 2000: Hey what's this RedHat Linux OS all about? Seems safer to mess around with than Napster. Also what's this ".NET" thing Microsoft is releasing Beta versions of?
• 2001: C#, ASP.NET, .NET Remoting, and the dot com collapse. Which for some reason made me get into JavaScript more than usual.
• 2002-2005: Lotsa .NET and SQL Server. Vault for source control.
• 2005-2010: Even more SQL Server including SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, and various ETL and BI/Reporting platforms. Still C# and ASP.NET on the dev side of things.
• 2011: NodeJS, WPF, WCF, SVG, JSON, (great acronym btw, always gets my attention) and ASP.NET MVC. Subversion for source control. Also Augmented Reality with Unity game dev platform.
• 2012-2014: More NodeJS and a long list of NPM Packages. More .NET. Started using Git for the first time. Also MVVM JS libraries like Angular, Backbone and KnockoutJS. Some MongoDB as well.
• 2015-2020: Azure, .NET Core, Python, TypeScript and Microservices, and launched a fantasy tennis game for a couple of years. Eclectic mixture of TFS, VSTS and Git for source control. Jenkins for CI/CD.
• 2021-Present: More Microservices running on Azure and a tiny bit of AWS, more C# and ASP.NET Core and also a healthy dose of Flutter and the Dart language for mobile dev. Also doing more work on MacOS these days using XCode and Android Studio. Full-time Git and Azure DevOps for source control and CI/CD. Also learning a bit of Terraform these days as well for some IaC skills.
• Misc: Currently playing around with .NET Maui and Blazor when time permits. Have a few side projects rolling around in my head too.

What else can I say?

• 🔭 If I'm not writing code for work, I'm probably doing some LeetCode or HackerRank or CoderPad challenges.
• 🌱 Currently learning Flutter, Python, the wide world of Azure, and MongoDB
• 💬 Are you a junior looking for a mentor? Contact me.
• 📫 How to reach me: my firstname.lastname at Gmail