TL;DR

I'm a do-er. I'm a learner. I'm a CliftonStrengths Advocate. Meyers Briggs says I prefer to be an INJT. I'm also a bit of a coffee fanatic.
I'm also on LinkedIn and github.

A Do-er

I am usually a little restless if I'm not getting something done. Even my down time has intentional elements: solitude, meditation, study, reading...usually it's all toward some goal.

A Learner

I feel like I love the journey of traversing from casual interest to mastery. There's an excitement for me in the first piece of material I understand in a new topic. I also love feeling accomplished when I'm able to execute a complete set of principles or ideas I've recently learned. I also work to communicate newly learned ideas to others.

Some topics I'm currently learning about:

• What a bit of academia has to say about engineering leadership
• kubernetes: I recently got CKAD certified and learned a ton about a stack of technologies "beyond" my most-practiced (M/P)ERN stack (Mongo/Postgres, Express, React, Node)
• CI/CD Automated pipelines: building & deploying automated ci/cd tooling for things like a frontend build system, a node_module, a rest api, wrapping and deploying projects as docker images...
• keeping up on some core JS and Node chops: some small studies on "scaling" node, using streams to minimize buffered content & maximize throughput, worker threads, etc
• nginx: an http server with perhaps more singleness-of-purpose than a node server

A CliftonStrengths Advocate

I've been enjoying the principles of a strengths-first way of being, both in my own life and when working with others. When conflict arises, we can learn to leverage one anothers' personality tendencies for the best, and take steps toward conflict resolution by pulling out the best in one another. (quotes below from gallups site)

• Learner ...a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. The process of learning, rather than the outcome... is exciting to me!
• Input ...have a need to collect and archive... information, ideas, artifacts...
• Deliberative ...described by the serious care (I) take in making decisions or choices. (I) anticipate obstacles.
• Command ...have presence. (I) can take control of a situation and make decisions.
• Achiever ...work hard to possess a great deal of stamina... take immense satisfactioin in being busy and productive.

An INTJ

Per The MeyersBriggs personality assessment, I'm an INTJ.

Check out the 16 personalities site for a more friendly breakdown of the assessment.

Solitude is Exciting - Introversion over Extroversion

The Past & The Future more than the present - Intuition over Sensing

How more than Who - Thinking over Feeling

Planning Over Spontaneity - Judging over Perceiving

A Coffee Fanatic

I roast coffee & I love my morning ritual of brewing myself some fresh-roasted coffee. Currently, I'm enjoying light-roasted beans, just at first crack, brewed in a Chemex or a 1-Cup V60. I recently purcahse the Fellow Ode Gen2 and I love it for the pour-over grinds!

I've also just recently started dabbling with "optimizing" my coffee water. So far, pretty great outcomes!

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