About Me

Software developer, board game buff, armchair historian. You can find me on GitHub here and LinkedIn here. I’ve spent time working as a computer science teaching assistant, a defense contractor, and a software developer at an alternative asset management firm.

Tech Toolbox

Here are some of the tools I enjoy using in my development work, both professionally and personally.

Languages:

• C#
• Python
• Javascript
• SQL (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Snowflake, and DuckDB dialects)

Frameworks & platforms:

• .NET
• Azure DevOps

Tools & libraries:

• Dapper: lightweight ORM for .NET
• RestSharp: lightweight HTTP client library for .NET
• Hangfire: background job processing for .NET
• glogg: log file explorer
• DBeaver: universal database tool
• Visual Studio Code: flexible, cross-platform IDE
• Docker & Docker Compose: container management & (basic) orchestration
• Jupyter Notebook & JupyterLab: interactive computational documents
• Git: distributed version control system
• Obsidian: note keeping / knowledge management system (unfortunately not open source, but a solid product)

Maxims

The only things you can control are your effort and your attitude.
– Billy Cox

Often the true value of a thing isn’t the thing itself, but is instead the the activity that created it.
– Dave Thomas

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
– Henry Ford

Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.
– Waldo Emerson

I shall not pass this way but once: any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
– Stephen Grellet