Engineer at heart, found working on APIs, micro-services, products & projects (GraphQL, REST, SOAP) in Node.js (Koa, Serverless, ExpressJS) or PHP (CodeIgniter, Symphony, Wordpress), familiar with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres), document-driven databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB, RethinkDB, Elasticsearch), templating (Vue.js, Handlebars, Nunjucks, Jekyll, Liquid, Jade Pug), unit testing with code-coverage (Mocha, Istanbul NYC, PHPUnit), logging infrastructures (Cloudwatch Logs, Fluentd, Kibana) & devops (dedicated servers, Docker, AWS, GCP, Rackspace).
Currently: CTO of Real Links š
Formerly:
- Senior Backend Developer at muzmatch š
- Senior Engineer at Car Throttle š
- Software Engineer at MyVoucherCodes šļø
Blog
Let's go zorbing!
Feb 19, 2021
Physical Infosec Breach
Jan 7, 2021
PWAdvent #9 - Push Notifications
Dec 9, 2020
Blog as you learn
Nov 29, 2020
Nov 28, 2020
Nov 21, 2020
Facebook SDK strikes again!
Jul 10, 2020
WhatsApp went down!
Jul 6, 2020
Razer introduces Project Linda
Jan 10, 2018
AWS Cloudwatch Logs
Aug 23, 2017
Emoji Shorts
Dec 19, 2016
Deploying with Docker and AWS
Oct 25, 2016
VPI
Jul 4, 2016
So, those Node Modules...
Mar 29, 2016
Telegram Hero
Feb 16, 2016
Jun 1, 2015

May 20, 2015
Streaming from (legacy) Twitter
Mar 20, 2015
We heard
Mar 26, 2013
Server Names
Aug 1, 2012
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