Welcome to my GitHub!

• Rust

  I first became interested in Rust in 2018 and have been lucky enough to have been using it as my primary programming language since July 2021. I love the trait system / borrow checker, the ecosystem, and the community. Rust makes it easy to 'Get Shit Done'™️ and ship with confidence.

• Distributed Systems

  I write highly available, fault tolerant, and performant web-scale applications (in Rust).

In addition to what is mentioned here, I am also proficient in several other programming languages (C, C++, Java, Python, PHP), tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, MQTT, etc...), and data stores (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, RocksDB, etc...) just to name a few 😄

• Reading
• Home Labbing
• Secure, No-Cloud Home Automation
• Guitar
• Golf

• I started programming when I was around 16 years old (a decade and a half ago... oof!)

  • I used to write mods for Counter Strike Source and wound up owning a few servers and playing competitively. This got me into creating websites (mostly Wordpress and bbPress) and playing with databases. I didn't realize I was 'programming' or that this could be a career. I was just having fun.
  • My first introduction to desktop programming was an advanced Computer Science course in Grade 12 where I achieved a 100% course average and won an award from DeltaWare for my achievement.

• In the years following high school I found myself programming a lot as a hobby or to automate repetitive tasks at work. As an example, when I was working as a technical services manager for a large retailer, I created a tool in VB.net to automate the setup of new computers. The program worked great and wound up being used in several stores across Canada, saving us tons of time. I never sought out compensation for creating this tool. I enjoyed taking a problem and solving it; to me, it was just another puzzle.

• I eventually returned to school to formalize my education and grow my professional network. There, I earned my Bachelor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and, more importantly, met many friends and industry contacts.