tl;dr
Platform Engineer at TouchBistro building internal platform, developer tools, CI/CD. Former pedicab (aka bike taxi) driver who discovered programming during the pandemic and fell in love with building things. Life-long autodidact, grappling enthusiast and Steam library dust collector.
The Journey
Started as a pedicab driver in Toronto, biking people around the city and discovering stories from all walks of life. When I wanted to start my own pedicab company, I needed a website but couldn't afford to hire someone.
Black Friday 2019: bought a web development course on Udemy. Little did I know this would completely change my career trajectory.
The pandemic hit in March 2020. While the world paused, I dove deeper into programming. Completed CS50, built projects, struggled through algorithms, and fell in love with the craft of building software.
May 2021: landed my first developer role at TouchBistro. Got plopped onto the Menu Management team building a Cloud-first menu that interacts with in-venue POS systems 🥳.
Currently
On the Platform team @TouchBistro, working stuff in the cloud ☁️. Previous teams: Menu Management features, Menu & Staff Migrations, Developer Acceleration. Outside of work, tinkering with rudimentary ML and Deep learning.
Hobby Projects 🫶🏻
SonicSight
SonicSight
A web application that transforms audio files into spectrograms and uses deep learning to classify sounds. Currently specialized in distinguishing between cat and dog sounds, it leverages a model I trained on Kaggle, deployed on Hugging Face with a FastHTML frontend.
Open Source Contributions
Mocha
☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser
FastHTML
A Python web framework for fast, scalable web applications with minimal, compact code.
LaunchDarkly/ld-find-code-refs
Command line program for generating flag code references
Current Interests
- Practical Deep Learning for Coders (by fast.ai) course 🤖 - It's been rewarding learning ML/DL in a top-down approach
- Dave's new album "The Boy Who Played the Harp 🤩" - Been waiting yearsss for this!