Introduction

I have 20+ years of experience in Software Development. I wrote my first program during school years to improve message handling in the FidoNet network, before the Internet became widely available in my home country. Since the advent of Internet I was curious about possibilities it brings and became heavily involved with web development and working with various technologies it offered. It was a fast-changing world and it made me realise, that being flexible about the tech stack brings and investing into deeper understanding of the toolkit, allows to learn from the best minds in the industry. Those learnings allowed me and my teams to be on the frontlines of new approaches, e.g. I introduced some of the DevOps practices before the word itself became a mainstream.

In the past few years I’ve seen how ever-growing choice of technologies can create a frustration and anxiety with developers and I used this as an opportunity to use my experience and expertise to mentor and guide my peers about the product architecture, development tools and how to apply them to solve a business problem at hand. I’m always enthusiastic to hear new opinions and learn more about the shiny technologies on the market, but I also find “boring” way of doing things to be efficient in getting a work done.