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mk6502/README.md

Hi 👋

Hi there, I'm Mike.

  • 🔭 I’m currently working on big data engineering with Spark on k8s on AWS at iSpot.tv.
  • 🌱 I’m focusing on mentoring and coaching my team to improve their skills and release awesome products.
  • 📚 I love to read - check out my list of books to see what I'm reading.
  • 🌎 I occasionally write blog posts about software engineering and other topics.

Management and Software Engineering

I consider myself to be a software engineer at heart. Nowadays I'm trying to do less code-writing and more of everything else:

  • Reading and learning.
  • Writing, writing, and more writing.
  • Thinking about design patterns and architecture (how do you scale k8s? what should we be researching?)
  • Mentoring and leading a team building products and shipping features
  • Hiring (!)

Stuff I've Worked On

  • Django! My first internship and full-time job was at a startup that was built on top of Django.
  • Built an Android app for fun. It was much easier than multiple failed attempts of creating an iOS app.
  • Machine Learning. Just scratched the surface. Data cleansing and feature engineering really is 95% of the job.
  • Built a CHIP-8 emulator. It plays Pong and that's pretty much it. Maybe I'll work on a Gameboy emulator next.
  • Spark, Hadoop, Hive. On-prem, on Azure, on GCP, on AWS - you name it. Now we're running Spark on k8s. Also AWS EC2, EMR, ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, CodePipeline, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, and plenty more acronyms.
  • Now, I'm an engineering manager, managing a team that does a lot of what I wrote about above!

Everything Else

My wife and I enjoy hiking, biking, traveling, and playing with our Shih Tzu.

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  1. chipee chipee Public

    Adventures in CHIP-8

    C 2

  2. azssh azssh Public

    Tool to SSH into EC2 instances by name.

    Go

  3. go-route53-dyn-dns go-route53-dyn-dns Public

    Tool to update AWS Route53 with an instance's public IP address.

    Go

  4. spark-emr-jupyter spark-emr-jupyter Public

    Tools to easily set up and run Jupyter on Spark on AWS EMR.

    Shell 4 5

  5. vowpal_wabbit_docker vowpal_wabbit_docker Public

    Vowpal Wabbit in a Docker container.

    Dockerfile 3 1

  6. pydashbutton pydashbutton Public archive

    Run Python when you press a Dash button!

    Python