👋 Ahoy

I'm a software engineer and open source maintainer. I have broad experience with Google Cloud, DevOps, Frontend, Backend, API and Cloud Architecture. My main interests are developer tools and team / project / management methods to drive productivity and delivery.

Projects

I like to improve my workflow, so I have tried authoring, contributing to, and helping maintain some open-source software tools, notably:

• asdf-vm (core maintainer): a "version manager" to help developers manage the tools they use pinning to specific versions.
• asdf-gcloud (author): a Google Cloud CLI plugin for asdf.
• meta-cloud-builders (author): a tool to build and maintain your Google Cloud Build "builder" and "triggers" in configuration files alongside the application that uses them.
• svelte-adapter-firebase (author): a tool to help deploy a Svelte Kit website to Google Firebase CDN & Cloud Functions for a hybrid SSR/CSR application experience. Developed ~2 years before official support from Google themselves. Now deprecated.

More on GitHub, with more to come!

Technology Interests

Infrastructure / PaaS:

• Cloudflare: Cloudflare started as a CDN/Hosting/Networking platform but now has the explicit goal of becoming cloud#4 and competing with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
• Google Cloud: Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products.
• Pulumi: Pulumi is a cloud engineering platform that lets you build, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure using existing programming languages.
• Fly.io / Deno Deploy / Vercel / Render

Languages:

• V: Simple, fast, safe, compiled. For developing maintainable software. V is very similar to Go. If you know Go, you already know ≈80% of V. Things V improves on Go.
• Go: Go was written by Googlers as a modern, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a scripting language.
• JavaScript / TypeScript

Frontend:

• HTMX: build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext
• Templ: HTML build tool for Go
• Svelte & SvelteKit: Svelte is a component framework that compiles away at build time. SvelteKit is a framework for building web applications with Svelte.
• React & Next.js (I prefer Svelte)
• Tailwind CSS: a utility-first CSS framework

Blogs & Newsletters I follow

• Changelog News
• Golang Weekly
• tl;dr sec
• This week in Self Hosted
• Not A Designer
• Jason Fried (37 Signals - Basecamp)
• David Heinemeier Hansson (37 Signal - Basecamp, Ruby on Rails)
• Justin Searls
• Justin Jackson
• Paul Jarvis
• Lucidity