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Core Skills
- š¤ AI integration: LLMs
- š¤ AI Accelerated Development: ChatGPT, Claude Code
- š» Languages & Systems: Ada 2022, C, C#, Go, Python, Rust
- āļø Cloud, Orchestration & Containers: AWS/GCP (familiar), Azure, Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, Linux, Terraform
- šļø Architecture: Distributed systems, Enterprise Architecture, Microservices, Embedded, Domain Driven Design, Clean/Hexagonal, IoT
- āļø Build & DevOp: Alire, Bazel, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GPRbuild
- š Networking: Ambassador/Emissary, GraphQL, gRPC, Linkerd2, NGINX, REST
- ā” Serverless & Eventing: AWS Lambda (familiar), Azure Functions
- š Security: Active Directory, Azure Key Vault, HIPAA, OAuth2, OIDC, Okta, TLS, X.509
- šļø Data: Azure Data Services, SQL Server, MongoDB Atlas, PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite
- š Observability & Messaging: Azure Queues, Grafana, Prometheus, SendGrid
Professional Summary
- š¤ Actively using Agentic workflows using ChatGPT and Claude Code to boost productivity, improve quality, and accelerate learning.
- š§āš» Hands-on engineer who architects, builds, deploys, and monitors production SaaS systems using Cloud platforms, resources, and services.
- š§ Skilled engineer comfortable with low-level development, electronics, and embedded programming on STM32 boards.
- š Actively pursuing experience with device-to-cloud (IoT / Industrial IoT) and applied AI (automation workflows, integrating LLMs, etc.).
- š Allen-Bradley (Rockwell Automation): Global Senior Application Engineer, 10-year tenure; critical global field support; customer training;
created PLC Ethernet, ERP, and VME C API libraries; published APIs in product manuals; APIs adopted by customers across manufacturing and
mission-critical deployments by the French Navy (VME PLC battleship control).
- š University of Alaska: Software Engineering Manager for three teams (~20 engineers); personnel development, project management, budgeting, and mentoring on modern practices and advanced architectures.
Recent Open Source
Alire (Ada 2022)
- Functional (author/maintainer) ā Crate for functional programming with SPARK safety
⢠https://alire.ada.dev/crates/functional.html
- Hybrid_App_Ada (author/maintainer) ā Enterprise starter application with hybrid DDD/Clean/Hexagonal architecture
⢠https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/abitofhelp/hybrid_app_ada
- Hybrid_Lib_Ada (author/maintainer) ā Starter library with hybrid DDD/Clean/Hexagonal architecture
⢠https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/abitofhelp/hybrid_lib_ada
- TZif (author/maintainer) ā Crate for parsing and querying IANA time zone information from TZif binary files (RFC 9636)
⢠https://alire.ada.dev/crates/tzif.html
- ZoneInfo (author/maintainer) ā Crate for time zone transformations and calculations using the IANA Time Zone Database
⢠https://alire.ada.dev/crates/zoneinfo.html
Go (Go 1.25.3)
- Hybrid_App_Go (author/maintainer) ā Enterprise starter application with hybrid DDD/Clean/Hexagonal architecture
⢠https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/abitofhelp/hybrid_app_go
- Hybrid_Lib_Go (author/maintainer) ā Enterprise starter library with hybrid DDD/Clean/Hexagonal architecture
⢠https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/abitofhelp/hybrid_lib_go
Cargo (Rust 2021)
- Adaptive-Pipeline (author/maintainer) ā Crate for a high-performance adaptive file processing pipeline
⢠https://crates.io/crates/adaptive-pipeline
Interests
IoT / IIoT (device-to-cloud), defense/space, scientific/medical data, distributed systems, embedded, electronics, aviation
Selected Tech
Go (Golang) ⢠C ⢠C# ⢠Rust ⢠Ada 2022 ⢠Kubernetes (K8s) ⢠Azure ⢠Linkerd2 ⢠gRPC ⢠GraphQL/REST ⢠Terraform ⢠Helm ⢠Redis ⢠Azure Queues ⢠Bazel ⢠GitHub Actions ⢠Prometheus ⢠Grafana ⢠NGINX ⢠Ambassador/Emissary