jonEbird's Landing Place
jon-E-bird
Story behind the name is that an old manager used to call out to me in his boisterous voice, "Heeyyyy, Johnnyyyy Bird!", when he strolled into work. This was back in the day when people needed to create user names online, so I went with it.
You'll find me as jonEbird everywhere online.
Work - Software Engineer
I'm a software engineer who also spent over a decade doing admin work. My career started doing some C++ development supporting business to business (B2B) value added network (VAN). I was intrigued by the thought of using my Linux interest to get into System Administration while differentiating myself as the "programmatic admin" before "DevOps" or "SRE" were popularized. After eventually ascending to a Linux Architect role, I wanted to return to a pure development role again. I've now been back doing development work for the past decade mostly with Apple.
Interests - Outside Work
Not everything is work. I'm a father and I enjoy being a coach for soccer, basketball and sometimes flag football. In general I like to teach kids things and find myself volunteering in various venues. Our way of exploring a town is by finding the best restaurants.
Nerding Out
Being a nerd just means you have interests in learning other things. These are the things I'm hacking on in my free time:
- Emacs - no matter where I'm working, I tend to find a way to led some sort of user group. Guess how I produce this page?
- Home Assistant - after moving into a new home, I've been automating All the Things 🎉 Full setup actually includes Hubitat for Z-Wave and Zigbee devices that export to my Homekit setup along with Home Assistant.
- Amateur birder - one summer I was assigning my son an assignment of writing a separate bird report each weekday. The more you learn, the more interest you form.
- Duolingo - my first language class was when I voluntarily enrolled in summer school in 3rd grade to take Spanish and learning Basic programming language. I'm always interested in learning more languages.
Contact Information
| jonEbird at gmail.com | |
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