I'm a platform engineer, technical lead, developer, technologist, geek, husband, father, dog dad, gamer, and avid learner. Technology and software development are my passions. I enjoy solving complex problems, writing code, tinkering, engineering solutions and learning new technologies. I'm an opensource advocate and would like to contribute more to opensource. My background is primarily as a backend software engineer with a heavy emphasis on object-oriented programming, JVM languages and frameworks, and SQL databases. In 2019 I transitioned to mostly writing Go microservices deploying to the cloud and Kubernetes.

My primary tech stack:

• Go
• Azure
• AKS/Kubernetes
• Docker
• Java/JVM
• Kotlin
• Spring & Spring Boot
• Quarkus
• PostgreSQL
• CockroachDB
• CosmosDB
• MongoDB
• Kafka
• Consul
• Redis
• Hazelcast

Also know or work with:

• C#/.NET
• Python
• MSSQL
• Oracle DB
• AWS

Interesting in Learning:

• Rust
• Neo4J
• Machine Learning
• Ktor Framework
• Emulation Development