I'm a software developer and DevOps engineer, presently working as a Sr. DevOps Consultant at InCycle Software. As a consultant, I work with a verity of clients in a variety of industries to help them improve their development practices. I've worked on projects ranging from fixing/improving CI/CD pipelines, building out cloud automation, agile coaching and everything in between.
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I'm currently learning about Kubernetes with the goal of becoming a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer. For those that are not aware of what Kubernetes is, it basically a container orchastration platform. If you haven't yet, I strongly suggest taking a look at. While it is a great tool that solves a lot of challenges with containers, it brings with it a whole new set of challenges. The story of IT, right? 😁
I've taken on a really fun side project that needs a bit of a setup story. In middle school, a group of my friends and I in the A/V Club were approached by one of the tech-ed teachers about joining a club called Technology Student Association (TSA). The quick background is they are an organization for students to use technology to compete in competitions against one another. It open my eyes to a whole new world and honestly made me the geek I am today.
Fast-forward to today, my daughter joined the very same club (the awesome part is she did it without me even suggesting it).
To give back to an organization that gave me so much, I volunteer as a judge for the regional and state competitions.
One of the competitions is a coding competition where students have two hours to solve a series of problems using a language of their choosing.
The problem, they judge and evaluate the solutions by hand making the competition painful for all involved.
So the geek in me got to work and I'm currently building out a tool that will do most of the judging and evaluation automatically.
Checkout any of my repos with TSA in the name if you are curious or are interested in contributing.
Some fun and random facts about me:
- I'm happily married with a wonderful daughter and our dog which is a Husky
- I almost went to school for carpentry instead of computer programming
- In my spare time, I do pretend to be a carpenter
- I used to volunteer as an EMT/Firefighter but work has kept me too busy for that
- I do plan to try and to return to it soon
