Personal Development

Archived at July 18th, 2020 and not updated thereafter.

Personal development

As a developer, it is important to always continue to learn and to make sure you keep up with the technological advancements. For this reason I spend at least one day a week on self-education.

What I am currently working on:

Improvements within the infrastructure of Bytecode, applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
Building a central API system (REST and gRPC) for Bytecode, consisting of several microservices.
Creating code generation tools for project scaffolding (e.g. React and Redux) with the objective of more uniform code bases within Bytecode and less manual boilerplate code.
Building a tool within Bytecode to define and test import boundaries with a domain specific language.
Conduct research to create fixed “stacks” for development at Bytecode, and better definition of guidelines.
Self-education towards the foundations of Computer Science and Computational Science and Engineering.
Reading The Art of Computer Programming, part 1 to 4A (Donald Knuth)

What I’ve been working on lately (most notably):

Delving deeper into Go/Golang development for enterprise applications
Specialization towards software architecture/design and SRE
Reading books related to productivity, management and soft-skills
Reading books related to process/management with software development
Reading Start With Why and similar books on startup branding and mission definition
Delving deeper into compiler engineering and assembly language(s)
Kubernetes in production

What I want to learn (most notably):

Getting more acquainted with the purely functional programming languages Haskell and Elm
Systems programming with Rust
Embedded programming with C, C++ and/or Rust
Become familiar with Erlang, OCaml, C++, Dart, F# and Smalltalk for research purposes
Functional front-end web development with Elm, ReasonML and/or ClosureScript
WebAssembly, icm. Rust, Go and/or C
Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks with Tensorflow