About

I have been in IT / Hardware development for over 20years and over the years greping the internet for how tos, its never quite the same. So I thought I’ll write them down here for benefit of others and or me for that matter.

Bit about me. I studied Aerospace Engineering and has master’s degree in Advanved Manufacturing Systems. Since leaving university I landed on a job which involved industrial and office automation.

My technology journey started with an ZX Spectrum writing in basic, long time ago, after leaving university, landanded on a job which involved industrial and office automation in VBA excel Macros then moved on to do more in Visual Basic, leaned about Microsoft’s COM. Around about this time, I was getting more involved in C++. LAMP stack was popular at this time also it provided an easy solution deploy to one place and available to everyone problem. I couldn’t quite get my C++ libraries to work with PHP so I ended up porting most of it to C and learned how to write PHP custom modules and the rest is history. I grew an instant liking to the C language. Dunes have shifted since those days, now I market myself as a full stack cloud developer. I have also developed and published iOS applications and really enjoy working with LLVM compiler. I am not a java developer, I’ve avoided it like the plague.

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Tech stack

I use Python, Typescript / Javascript with React in the FE. In the backend prefer to use serverless infrastructure as AWS API Gateway, Lambda and Step Functions. Although sometimes its not always possible. I’ve also used ECS / EKS on AWS Fargate. For simpler applications I’ve used serverless framework for writing infrastructure as code but my preferred choice would be terraform. I’ve ignored docker for a long time but recently got the hang of it and really begun to love it.

Programming languages

Technologies

Below is a collection of technologies I’ve used and got good at it.