IT Solutions Architect at the City of Kamloops, with a broad portfolio covering both development and DevOps. Primary background in full stack development (Django/Python, React/Typescript, Golang, Cordova/Android Native/React Native) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible).

I'm currently working on sprinkling in infrastructure-as-code and DevOps ideas into what was a largely legacy environment. I'm also quite excited about our work introducing a modern development stack, containerization, code review practices, and CI/CD to our amazing team's workflow! Also, a lot of infrastructure-related analytics, replacing legacy integrations with Golang, and providing support & training to a fantastic team.

All while keeping a large, mixed environment of >400 virtual and physical servers going — challenging at times but a whole lot of fun!

My primary research interests are in the areas of generative adversarial neural networks (particularly in a healthcare context), big data & big data reduction, and cloud vs local computing.

Currently working on personal projects in the form of web-based board games and related tooling.

I'm passionate about sharing my knowledge, particularly with newcomers to computer science! I've run workshops on a number of topics, but mostly centered around Python for web development and data analysis. Separately, I maintain a number of side projects centered around scraping and data analysis.

While I haven't had as much time to dedicate to it recently as I would like, I'm an amateur wildlife photographer with a particular interest for birds. My work can be seen under the knowneuropean moniker. I'm also open knowledge advocate and have been active on the English Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for over a decade. Oh, and I collect fountain pens...

I'm always happy to talk about my projects, your projects, bound ideas off, provide advice or just chat with other tech-y folks building cool things! The easiest way to reach me it to shoot me an email!