I started computing with my dad's Tandy Color Computer and eventually moved on to the x86 architecture. Programming was introduced to me at a young age and I was fortunate enough to have access to some high school computer science classes. After a couple of years of computing in university with summer jobs in the telecommunications space as well as contributing to a few open source software projects, I found work as a programmer in the Canadian government. I'm still there programming in mainly Java, SQL, and C while keeping Unix-like infrastructures running underneath.

Work and projects

• Software developer in the Canadian federal government.
• Have been running somaradio.ca and its infrastructure since 2001.
• Former contributor and foundation member of the GNOME project.
• Former contributor to GnomeICU.
• Volunteer for the Business of Open Source Symposium and the Ottawa Linux Symposium.

Stuff I use

• Linux and BSD operating systems
• Java Ecosystem (JDK, Jakarta EE, various frameworks) and C
• Linode, Azure