I am a software developer first and foremost. I have 14 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, from the datacenter to support to buliding the IBM classic platform. I have a lot of hands on experience with systems automation and heavily modifying existing systems, like Jenkins and Jira, to accommodate complex business needs. Over my career I've worked on several applications. I've co-authored an internal certificate authority application in Golang, worked on a monitoring dispatcher application in Golang, wrote several small tools with Elixir including an audit for expiring secrets, and authored a Jira plugin for resolving complex build dependencies.

Along with software development, I have extensive experience in DevOps and systems. I have hands on experience from everything from system provisioning (BM, VM, and containers) to networking to managing the SDLC for our major application. While I have a lot of sysadmin experience, I always take my job with a software engineering approach first and foremost. My career has involved highly controlled environments, including FEDRAMP high, HITRUST, HIPAA, and PCI controls.

On my free time, I write Elixir apps. A lot of these are quick and simple to serve a meaningful purpose in my life, for example, one of the apps I wrote was a journaling app. I wanted to keep my data private and needed some features like color coding. Elixir made it easy to write this up in a weekend. I have some other projects detailed in the projects section below. Outside of writing code, I am interested in gaming, cooking, gardening, and woodworking. I have a recipe site at relaxanddine.com.