Highlighted Projects
stocky
TypeScript Kubernetes Discord Bots
A little Discord bot that knows about stocks.
- Uses modern Discord "slash commands" that allow for auto-completion.
- Pulls stock data from FinnHub to provide live stock quotes and basic financials.
- Deployed on Kubernetes.
pblb
Go Load-Balancers Networking
An experimental application-layer load-balancer to explore load-balancing algorithms and health metric strategies.
- Implemented both Round Robin and Random Two-Choice load-balancing algorithms.
- Docker-compose spins up a Prometheus instance with live load-balancing and health metrics.
- Algorithm choice, health-check endpoints, and panic threshold are all configurable via YAML.
pbdb
Go Databases NoSQL
A key/value database inspired by chapter 3 of Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman.
- Leveraged constant-time file appends to write data quickly to a K/V store.
- Used an in-memory hash index to speed up reads. Hash index is rebuilt on startup in-case of crashes.
Bio
I'm an experienced, self-taught Software Engineer. Originally from New England, I now live in Seattle with my partner and three cats. When I'm not coding, I'm either playing hockey, collecting video games, or studying chess.
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Great question!
- I grew up playing the Nintendo 64.
- I am a lifelong fan of chess and there are 64 squares on a chessboard.
- In computing, the number 64 shows up quite a bit—it's the number of bits in 8 bytes (26)!