I started working professionally in the IT field while still in high school. I was able to leverage 3 years of university and my Open Source interests into contract work which in turn led to permanent employment.

Work

• Development of an address register re-write (Azure, Linux, Java, PostGresql)
• Maintenance of inventory application and Windows administration (Net+Oracle, Windows Server)
• Helped stand up a custom application development group and develop a PoC (Java, Azure, React)
• Application lifecycle support
• Development of a population register (Java+SQL Server)
• Cloud Migration with CI/CD (Azure, Linux, Java, C, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Gitlab)
• Stack modernization and CI/CD introduction: Java modernization, C build refactoring, Git+Jenkins
• Multiple Unix to Linux migrations
• Hydrographic Chart manufacturing and maintenance workflow application (Java+Oracle)
• Administration of Linux and Windows servers
• Development of Content management system (Java+Oracle)
• Creation of Conference and Foreign travel system (ASP+Oracle)
• Creation of conference booking and workflow application(ASP+Access)
• Wired and wireless telelphony development and support (C/C++, Perl)
• Creation of web-based inventory system (Perl)

Technology

• Java: Jakarta/Java EE, Spring/Spring-Boot, Apache Struts, Groovy
• DBs: Postgresql, MariaDB/MySQL, Java/DerbyDB, SQLite, Oracle, SQL Server
• Cloud: Azure, Linode, Digital Ocean, Terraform, Ansible
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Gitlab, GitHub, Jenkins
• Sysadmin: Linux (Debian and Red Hat based), BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD), OmniOS/Solaris, AIX, Windows, Apache, Nginx, IIS, Tomcat/TomEE, WebSphere, Glassfish/Payara
• Other Languages: c/c++, php, perl, python, Lisp, Pascal, Shell