ElMan23 GitHub Pages

Welcome to ElMan23 GitHub Pages!

Background

I have a background in pure Mathematics.

I have some experience with pure research (I have a PhD); for some years I worked as a teacher, both at high school and as university assistant.

I currently work in the field of Software Developement.

I have some experience with different aspects of software development, delivery, testing, system management.

My role gives me the opportunity to get some hands-on experience with:

backend development (Java: Spring Boot, Python: Django, FastAPI);
database management (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB);
deployment, containerization (Docker), CI/CD, DevOps practices;
Linux and Windows system management.

Interests

My interests in the field of Computer Science lie mostly in the following:

Backend, API and algorithm development;
Data Science;
AI, ML & related;
DevOps, DevSecOps, GitOps;
Scripting and system administration;
Cybersecurity.

I love to thinker with machines and try to learn how they actually work.

Technologies

Here I list some technologies I came in contact with.

Programming languages:

Java: Spring Boot, Vaadin;
Python: Flask, Django, FastAPI;
Rust: I’m interested in the language and I’m learning it by coding stuff @ CodeCrafters;

I know very few about frontend development: I happened to meet with TypeScript, Angular, React.

Machine learning: Jupyter Notebooks, Jupyter Lab, Kaggle, Colab.

Scripting: PowerShell, Bash.

Containerization: Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm.

Infrastructure provisioning: Terraform, Ansible.

VCS: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket.

Databases: PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, MySQL & MariaDB, MongoDB, InfluxDB.

Other Interests

What I’d like to learn / I am currently experimenting with:

Machine Learning:
- Seth Weidman’s Deep learning from scratch,
- Andrej Karpathy’s nanoGPT and Neural networks from zero to hero;
Rust programming languange:
- Rustlings,
- 100 exercises to learn Rust,
- I’m improving my Rust knowledge by working on projects @ CodeCrafters.

Portfolio

I use the pretext of a “book app”, since I like to keep a list of books that I read.

I try to experiment with a minimal entity configuration to focus best on the framework and the language. For example, a book may be represented simply by its author and title.

Some applications I have developed as a base for additional freatures:

Spring Book App: Spring Boot Spring REST API, it uses Spring Boot, Spring Security, JPA.
Rust Book App: written in Rust, REST API with PostgreSQL database.
Post App: FastAPI (Python) project implementing basic “social media like post” functionality with authentication, users, database support.
Article API: Gorilla (Go) REST API for articles with authentication and database support.

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