I am a software developer from St. Louis, who lives in the Midwest. Growing up, I was always fascinated with machines and technology. These interests have taking me down a wide variety industries, helping me build a strong foundation of technological skills from low/high voltage electronics, pneumatics, hydraulics, and finally computer programming. The aggregate result of this experience helps give me a unique approach to problem solving.

I started my technology career at a small business. Typical of many small businesses, I wore many hats. I worked as the network administrator, desktop support, in-house developer, web site administrator, systems administrator, and domain administrator. Additionally, I had to maintain the VOIP system as well as the low-voltage access control system. These days I work more as a full-stack cloud developer, but my need to learn everything about a given environment certainly has roots in my beginnings.

As a full-stack developer I get the enjoyment of in-the-trenches coding, and the high-level architect point of view. I find it particularly enjoyable setting up CI/CD workflows, and seeing developers faces light up when a simple push to the master branch triggers a full-scale deployment. I was fortunate to be given access to AWS in its formative days, and got to witness the growth of the various cloud providers and their offerings first hand.

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