About
I do end to end development of various security automation tools in CloudSEK. I read, write and talk about developer tooling, distributed systems, software engineering. Please send an email for collaboration on projects or to chat.
Recommendations
These are things that I have personally experienced and feel comfortable recommending to other people, in no particular order.
Books
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
- The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: Navigating Senior, Tech Lead, and Staff Engineer Positions at Tech Companies and Startups by Gergely Orosz
- The Tech Resume Inside Out: What a Good Developer Resume Looks Like by Gergely Orosz
- Grokking Simplicity: Taming complex software with functional thinking by Eric Normand
Software
- Things - To-Do List for Mac & iOS
- Zed - A Text Editor
- Textual - IRC for macOS
- Bitwarden - Password Manager. FOSS
- Obsidian - A cross platform notes app which stores notes as markdown. Supports any syncing solution that can sync a directory.
Gadgets
- Sony WH-1000XM4: A great pair of noise cancelling headphones which I have been using for 3 years.
- Sony NW-A55 Walkman, a discontinued DAP. Really love that it has no internet connectivity. You’ll have to download and add songs to it.
- MacBooks. Have been using one or the other macbook since 2018. Love the battery life and I don’t hate the OS. It is good enough for my personal and professional work.
Games
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted(2005)