I have been entranced by computers from ever since I can remember. One day when I was very young, my dad got home the best piece of technology ever built, with a 486dx2 processor that ran DOS. Quarter of a century later and I'm still hooked on, enough to make a career out of my hobby to code.
I started my journey as a developer by writing simple programs and games using GW-BASIC, and now I build software applications and Cloud micro-services using high-level programming languages like Java and Scala.
Most of my experience is in building backend applications using high-level programming languages like Java or Scala. I have primarily developed web services using frameworks like Finatra and am familiar with build tools like SBT or Gradle.
I have worked on building micro-services in the SaaS layer and have extensive experience in that domain. I have worked on VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) and am familiar with the various products and services offered by Amazon Web Services, like EC2, S3, EBS etc. I also have some knowledge of VMware's products like vSphere, NSX and vSAN.
While developing software in the SaaS world, I have been responsible for both development and operations. I am very familiar with building seamless CI/CD pipelines to deploy micro-services using Jenkins CI, Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes. I have primarily worked on Linux environments and am comfortable with scripting languages like Bash or Python. I have primarily been in teams using the Agile model of development, but have also used the Waterfall model in the past.
I have recently started exploring some aspects of front-end development and working with the JAMstack. This website is built using Gatsby, a static site generator based on React. I've also used UI component libraries like Semantic UI and Ant Design.