Background / Trivia

• I started programming in high school in BASIC, when my school bought its first computer.
• I read about 50 books a year on average, some years around 100.
• I have lived for years in the following countries: US, India, Singapore, Indonesia.
• I used to be a part-time martial arts instructor in college.
• I held part-time jobs as an accountant and technician, from ages 11-17, with a manufacturing business owned by my parents.
• I am fluent in 3 natural languages, and have basic skills in another 2.
• My earliest projects used electrical, electronic and electromechanical systems, and I still enjoy working on robotics, IoT and hobby electronics.

General

• I can use first principles thinking to deconstruct complex problems.
• I can program computers, phones, microprocessors, and other such machines.
• I also like working with electrical and mechanical machines: automobiles, bikes, appliances and such.

Technical skills

• I can work in many modern programming languages and stacks, or learn new ones pretty fast.
• I am good with software architecture, system design, optimization, performance tuning, porting and such.
• I am good with human factors engineering, UI/UX, accessibility, and assistive and cognitive tech.
• Programming languages: C, C++, C#, JavaScript, PHP, Python, SQL, TypeScript, VB, VB.NET, Shell Script, Google Apps Script, VBA, and probably a few others
• Operating systems: Windows, Linux, macOS
• PaaS: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Front-end frameworks: React, React Native, Angular, Vue
• Automation: Sikuli, Selenium, UiPath, Power Automate
• DB/RDBMS: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, Oracle, SQLite, MS Access

Skills in the learning queue

• Rust
• Golang
• Biosensors
• Reasoning systems
• Advanced symbolic logic

P.S.

I find LinkedIn to be rather distasteful overall, but do maintain a profile there to stay connected to the mainstream tech industry, and it has a skills section too.

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