I was born in Johannesburg South Africa and have spent most of my life there before moving to Cape Town. Growing up, I tried my best to do anything and everything that I could. Amongst the things I have tried in life are violin, guitar, chess, rugby, competitive fishing, athletics, cross country, choir and son on. As of right now my passions lie in grappling (Brazilian JiuJitsu), although I am still just a white belt. In my spare time I also enjoy reading, playing games and finding new ways to make my girlfriend laugh.

In general I far prefer backend work to frontend work, and I find I enjoy work that is more involved with problem solving and algorithms than visual appearance. The technologies I am most comfortable with are listed below.

Cloud Technologies:

Distributed Technologies:

Languages and Databases:

My interests tend to lean towards more theoretical aspects of Computer Sciences. I am deeply interested in Compiler Construction, but also have found myself researching Security, Mathematics and Problem Solving in my own time. I also find myself drawn to developing silly discord bots for my friends.

I am currently working as a Cloud Support Engineer for AWS, specifically helping large enterprises troubleshoot and improve their distributed computing environments. As such I have been working mainly with distributed technologies and frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive etc. Beyond this I have also become comfortable working in a Cloud Environment and as a Linux Administrator of sorts, but my passion for coding and building remains unchanged.

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