Portfolio

This cart is somewhat before the horse, probably - but if anybody wanted to give me money, you now have the technology: https://github.com/sponsors/donaldguy

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On Ubuntu 14.04 laptop (installed years late specifically to give a sane environment for) running beware's DDR Extreme Simulation r3 on a fork of Stepmania 3.9 Twas on a RedOctane Ignition foam-cor...

On something of a lark, I decided to change around flights and stop in Minneapolis "on the way" to the Chef Community Summit in Seattle. It was really a ton of fun, kinda magical; I picked up sever...

Some interesting folks in DevOps Days crowd of this era were talking much about the ways in which DevOps as an idea had taken much, had more to take, and could stand to understand better Lean Manuf...

From August of 2014, I began my transformation into a proper SRE type. Working as a two-man team with Michael D'Auria, I did the DevOps for Crowdtap for right about a year. We delivered (with Circl...

After 5 years in Cambridge, I made the move to "the big city", settling in Downtown Brooklyn / Boerum Hill with a friend (who worked first as a data scientist at Twitter then later in infosec at Fa...

After disappointment in my own performance at TripAdvisor, I reasoned the problem was that though I liked working with computers, I needed to believe more in the purpose of the work. After a somewh...

Though my duties didn't much include DevOps, a coworker was an old hand at O'Reilly and finagled me a free one day ticket at my request. I found the event rather inspiring. Though I don't believe I...

After college, I went to work at TripAdvisor in Newton, MA as a "full-stack engineer" randomly assigned to an internal-facing tools team (dealing with i18n, content management, etc. essentially eve...

For a month or so under tutelage of Ben Cantil At the (I believe) now defunct MMMaven project in Central Square, Cambridge, MA Taking this class as my job at TripAdvisor flamed out inspired the on-...

Was an eye-opening experience in several ways. • I experienced the upsides of well-funded and large-latitude orgs. Got a first (& perhaps best to date) taste of truly solid, testing infrastructure,...

In hindsight, one wishes the many people (liberal to center-right) descending on DC had had more political will, perhaps done something more than gather, laugh, and go home.

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Photos from commencement were lost when my mother left her camera (not smartphone, so no cloud backup) in a taxi the next day 😅. Pictured instead in final 10-250 performance with MIT / Wellesley To...

Did you know? Title X of the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) as amended to date only mandates continuation coverage for employers with 20 or more full time employees more th...

Performed my first (and as of this writing, only) only DJ set as part of graduation from AMP program at KMG in Boulder sadly, no recordings exist (have the ableton session file still tho)

Decided the big-company life was worth it and set off to do consulting development in Elixir (... theoretically)

Was tested and diagnosed as a child, but my parents chose not to treat as they were medication-skeptic. The novelty of instutional education's wide curriculum (mostly) seemed to sate my need for no...

https://elixirconf.com/2019 • Talked myself into finally learning Elixir & Phoenix after 4+ years of passive interest (in couple weeks before) • Took Nerves intro class from Justin and Frank • Saw ...

Discussed my approach to organizing Terraform modules (and to a lesser extent, helm charts) https://smartlogic.io/blog/how-i-organize-terraform-modules-off-the-beaten-path/

Belatedly got on the VR train. Not a big gamer, but its been good for getting back in some kind of fitness routine, and am excited by the possibilities (Pictured: https://www.getsupernatural.com )

Woke up at 3:30am eastern to catch the inaugural Cloud Native Rust Day; Used the upcoming-ness of to trick myself into working through Rustlings, finish The Book, etc. https://events.linuxfoundatio...

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Discussed a random bunch of stuff on episode 42 of Mr. Bill Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/mrbillstunes/42-donald-guy?in=mrbillstunes/sets/the-mr-bill-podcast

Elixir/Phoenix/Absinthe GraphQL microservice w/ custom dataloader for MongoDB, custom Firebase integration, & React interactive API docs. Handles tracking information about players & games outside ...