February Updates

-Some 2018 Updates-

Work at AMEX is going well. I have learned a tremendous amount about what I used to call “internet programming” (building web applications). My day-to-day activities revolve around building backend Java microservices. As part of this I’ve also learned about the noSQL database Couchbase, CICD tools like Jenkins and XL Release, and much more. When I’ve had a little free time I’ve worked on creating Node.js-driven GUIs for some of the backend tools I’ve created.

I was looking through my GitHub and came across the very first non-super-trivial program I started to help teach myself Java over Summer after taking a CS101 class. I glanced through the code and could not help but be amused at some of the design choices I made. While nowhere near the end of my learning journey, it feels good to realize how far I’ve come as a developer. I was 90% of the way done with the project before it was abandoned due to overwhelming schoolwork and other life-stresses. I’m thinking I’m going to finish up the project because 1) It will be a good exercise it patching together some poorly designed perhaps broken code 2) I don’t like to leave dangling ends. I’ll make a post about it when I take the plunge.

Also working on updating my resume and about me sections of this blog site. That’s all for now!