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Last updated on Nov 3, 2023.
📍 Living in
Portland, OR since late 2021 - experiencing the wild, green, and sometimes wet Pacific Northwest.
🏢 Working at
Senior Software Engineer @ Attentive , an SMS and email marketing vendor for e-commerce companies. Currently developing a platform for internal engineering teams to schedule, orchestrate, and run business process workloads on Temporal .
👨🏻💼️ Top three professional focuses
- Exercising strategic thinking muscles, to think beyond daily projects
- Finding opportunities to have leverage and influence beyond my immediate team
- Make the most out of my time leading Attentive's technical book club
🧘🏻♂️ Top three personal focuses
- Separation between work and personal life, not letting either bleed into the other, especially in a remote role
- Prioritizing what's most important in life, reducing mental "snacking"
- Making and keeping meaningful connections
👨🏻💻 Hacking on
igir
, a ROM collection manager, and my first venture into TypeScript and Node.js CLI apps- Metalsmith plugins that power this site (ongoing)
- This site (ongoing)
See my projects page for a complete list.
📚 Reading
- The Staff Engineer's Path by Tanya Reilly @ Attentive technical book club
- First Things First by Stephen R. Covey
- Staff Engineer by Will Larson
- Newsletter: The Pragmatic Engineer by Gergely Orosz
- Newsletter: SoftwareLeadWeekly