About_Myself

My name is John Xavier, a developer and a tech enthusiast.
I am not an engineer, just another self taught dev playing with a bit of this and that technology.

Some bullet facts

I do work as back-end software developer, either contracting or perm jobs.

I mostly do back-end for business apps in Java for a living, but sometimes I use JS/TS or python, mostly for old lambdas or for some Machine Learning if the shop has those skills. Devops is also part of my trade, trying to get better at it thou.

I have other projects that I will list accordingly when I have them a bit more advanced. Maybe the most fun is a music player in C++ and Qt for Linux. Yes! C++ still exists! woah! I know.. I know… Ru(piiiiip)t…

I did some time with C# / GoLang but it did not stick, they are ok… who knows… maybe in the future we say hello again.

Over the years I transitioned to software architecture on top of hands-on coding. It’s fun…, as long as it’s a beginning for getting to code something cool. I do like to see a sketch turn into something “real”.

I try not to stick with any tech in particular. If on the job, I adopt what the shop requires. If for myself, I usually benchmark or explore solutions and ideas, and change or adapt with new information. I did not use to like TypeScript much, and then ended up building a whole infrastructure with it and with pulumi after evaluating other choices.
Infrastructure_AC with Java or Go right? ha! right…

Answers to those question that were not asked

I started with linux around ‘93, and became a full time linux user around ‘96 maybe.

I jump distros from time to time, used to be an OpenSuSE user now I’m on Manjaro for sometime now.

I started programming professionally around 2014, thou my first program was on a commodore 128 circa ‘85. Was mostly copying some basic from the manual. Yes sir! Computers came with a manual back then. The thrill!

Reach out

As social goes, I only have linkedin and github, so if you want to drop a line, it will have to be over those momentarily.