Ahoy, I'm jthegedus 👋

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 optimise productivity and delivery.

Blog

See full list here

• Dec 26, 2020: State of Firebase (late 2020)
• May 8, 2020: State of Firebase (mid 2020)
• May 7, 2020: Ubuntu 20.04 on Lenovo ThinkPad E485
• May 29, 2019: State of Firebase (mid 2019)
• May 19, 2019: GraphQL on Cloud Functions for Firebase
• May 19, 2019: Express.js on Cloud Functions for Firebase
• May 16, 2019: Berglas with Node.js on Cloud Run
• May 6, 2019: The 3 best features of Google Cloud Run

Projects

A selection of the projects I authored or am a maintainer of:

• asdf (17k+ stars): A version manager to help teams manage their project developer dependencies in a shared way.
  • Related plugins for v, gcloud & firebase.
• svelte-adapter-firebase (250+ stars): A SvelteKit adapter for Firebase Hosting rewrites to Cloud Functions for a Svelte SSR experience.

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. This site is hosted as a V server on Google App Engine.
• Go: Go was written by Googlers as a modern, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a scripting language.
• JavaScript / TypeScript

Frontend:

• Svelte & SvelteKit: Svelte is a component framework that compiles away at build time. SvelteKit is a framework for building web applications with Svelte.
• React (I prefer Svelte)

Technologies used at work

• Google Cloud
  • Cloud Run / Functions, BigQuery, Firestore, Cloud Storage, Data Loss Prevention
• AWS
  • Lambda, EC2/Fargate, DynamoDB, RDS
• Languages
  • Shell Scripts, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Golang, V
• DevOps
  • GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, Docker, Buildpacks
• IAC
  • Terraform, Pulumi, aws-cdk

This is by no means an exhaustive list.