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his
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Pipeline optimization

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Advent of Code

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Noteworthy Achievements:
  • Has a tractor that cost more than his truck
  • Built one of the earliest Ruby on Rails applications (circa 2005)
  • Reduced CI time from 45 - 90 minutes on average wall-clock time to 18 - 24 minutes
  • Learned Kubernetes the Hard Way (by himself, with nothing but bare metal and the API documentation)
  • Self-hosts a CD pipeline that maintains his digital footprint
  • His favorite operating system is BeOS
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I've never seen someone optimize so much of my work day with tiny shell scripts. And he doesn't even have a Southern accent!
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Developed a single product for 15 years

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Worked with developers on nearly every continent

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Proficient with ambiguous projects

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