Personal site for a Chicago-based dev. Updated biennially!
I'm a coder to the bone. I code for work, I code for fun.
For work I've specialized in big data Rails apps for about 12 years. For fun I'll mess with whatever tech looks particularly interesting or innovative.
So far my journey has gone about like this:
QBasic -> Visual Basic -> perl -> C++ -> .NET -> PHP -> ruby
I've been doing web apps since they were almost new, so you can add various web-related techs in there:
React, AngularJS, jQuery, AngularJS, relational databases, AWS infratructure/terraform, ML, LLMs.
I'm a startup guy, though I'm currently working for a megacorporation due to an acquisition.
My employer for the past 3 years is Cisco, which acquired Kenna Security in June of 2021. I work on a vulnerability matching application used within Cisco products. Before that I worked for:
Beyond the coding stuff I'm into...
...and like to play rock/metal cello when I can. I can also do a smidge of rock/classical music composition.