Hi

⚡️ Quick things about me:

• Software Architect.
• Privacy and Security focused.
• A low-level enthusiast.
• Golang zealot.

📜 Tech journey:

It's impossible to cover everything I've learned in my amateur to professional journey.

• 2009: Started off programming in MS-DOS.
• 2011: Shifted then to the school mandated C++ (which was only covering C concepts in C++).
• 2012: Started my passion for Game development, learned Unity 3D with C# and did this for 2-3 years.
  • Around this time I began understanding the importance of standards and software development methods and techniques.
  • Did my fair share of graphics, 3d-modelling, animations and texturing.
  • Started learning and using Git in my projects
• 2014: Learned Python and believed it was the best thing since sliced bread.
  • Used Python as my primary language for everything for a good 2 years.
• 2015: Learning C, reverse engineering and computer networks on the side, nothing major (yet).
• 2015: Start playing with Raspberry PIs and sysadmin tasks on my own network.
  • Setup email, ftp, web, * servers just for fun and practice.
  • Setup my first Tor middle relay.
  • Learn proper GNU/Linux management.
  • I eventually install Arch as my main operating system and use that for over a year.
    • It all came burning down one day while doing a bleeding edge system update ... 10/10 will do again.
• 2016: Off to University for the next 3 years.
  • Really get into Computer Engineering and Architecture (low level stuff in Cadence and Assembly).
  • Give Golang a try, but I am too much of a Python fanboy.
  • A bunch of Hackathons happen, where I hone my skills.
  • Start getting into Security and Privacy, CTFs and more.
• 2017: Low-level galore.
  • Really go down the rabbit hole with Operating Systems low-level concepts.
  • Learn a lot and build a lot during my Microcontrollers course.
  • Realize the importance of typed, robust programming languages and force myself into learning Go.
    • Best decision ever.
• 2018: Begin my third year project, an Operating System.
  • Learn even more Assembly and low-level.
  • Advance my Go knowledge and Software Engineering in general.
  • Begin learning Docker and containerization technologies.
• 2019: Start working at THG (AppSec then Cloud team).
  • Write the first Go project in the AppSec team, proving to myself that Go works!
    • It works in terms of performance, code maintainability, and getting the job done.
  • Continue developing Go services, learning more about "industry" grade service architectures.
  • Really get a shift in views towards the direction of software.
  • Learn a bit of everything: DevOps, Networks, DBA, (🩸 OpenStack) and more.
• 2020: Quit, took a break, then joined QeOPS.
  • Built some of the best software I've ever built.
  • Major focus on simplicity, moving closer and closer to the original UNIX philosophy.
  • Started doing proper frontend.
  • Soon realize most web-devs are sheep and follow guides blindly, ending up with 200GB node_modules/, massive codebases from the start of the project and no understanding whatsoever of the underlying tech.

💬 Some of my views:

• Low-level programming and "computer science" concepts are important for every developer to understand.
  • Especially memory management which gets abstracted by most programming languages.
  • Software engineering culture doesn't help either, where "just add more RAM" is a viable solution.
• The "web" is a mess that will not go away in our lifetime.
  • So buckle up and make the best of HTML5/CSS/JavaScript and the festering cesspool of big frameworks™.
  • It doesn't have to be so 💩 and there are plenty of good reads on this: link, link, link.
  • I myself try to avoid using npm, big frameworks™ like React, Vue, Angular, whatever.js and instead try to keep things simple.
• Politics is crossing the thin silicon line into tech.
  • "Political correctness" for the sake of being "politically correct" is dumb.
  • Being woke doesn't solve problems or bring them to light.

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