Solving Problems Using Code
I had two weeks of vacation planned around PyCon, but canceled it since it didn't make sense to take time off when I couldn't go anywhere because of COVID-19.
I was feeling pretty down when the conference start date passed. I had spent the past few months looking forward to …
I started taking classes at The Second City Training Center in January this year. I was only able to complete Level A before the world shut down because of COVID-19.
It was a great experience and I was looking forward to more classes, but that wasn't in the cards for …
Podcasts allowed me to immerse myself in the tech industry during the earlly stages of my career change.
Talk Python, PythonBytes,
Test & Code,
Podcast.__init__,
Software Engineering Radio,
and the Atwood-Spolsky era Stack Overflow Podcast
were instrumental in leveling up my skills
and helping me get my first job.
In …
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Everything in life that's worth having requires effort. In tech, it also requires convincing somebody you are good enough to take a chance on.
A few months ago, I pivoted from data into web development because I wanted to …
(Note: This essay was written for my Foundations of Leadership course.)
Software Engineering is the discipline of Computer Science concerned with “developing and maintaining software systems that behave reliably and efficiently, are affordable to develop and maintain, and satisfy all the requirements that customers have defined for them” [1]. Creating …
Here’s to the new year. May she be a damn sight better than the old one, and may we all be home before she’s over.
End of year is the perfect time to reflect on the past and to plan for the future.
Truly wonderful the mind of a child is
It was an action packed week at work: we migrated our infrastructure to the Google Cloud Platform and into Kubernetes. Pods, nodes, deployments. Oh my!
Not that I helped much with the migration; I'm new and still learning the ropes.
I know …
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley
I started a new job as a Mathematician / Software Engineer at a Chicago-based healthcare startup in October. It's my first proper development job and I could not be more excited.
I get paid to write code. It's pretty awesome …
2017 is the year I became deliberate about my approach to programming. Like most newbie developers, I hacked together spaghetti code around chunks of answers I found on StackOverflow (Praise Be).
I didn't care how I solved the problem, only that it was solved enough to cross off my todo …
As part of my degree requirements, I enrolled in Information System Acquisition and Lifecycle with Dr. Ray Robinson (TA: Eric Abbott) for the Summer 2017 quarter.
The course name didn't have me expecting much. I thought I'd put off learning the material until the absolute last moment, procrastating with Python …
The best way to learn something is to teach someone else.
With this in mind, I started creating and presenting technical talks on a variety of subjects: Big Data in Healthcare, Python language features, graph algorithms, etc.
Similar to how writing about side projects on this blog helped develop my …