I have been developing software professionally for nearly 20 years, starting with embedded systems written in C back in 2004, and has spent that entire time learning the paradigms of different programming languages, including C++, PHP, Java, and Haskell - though more recently preferring to work with Go, Rust, and Pony.As a professional technology magpie, I was an early adopter of cloud, containers, and cloud-native technologies. During my time as the Director of Development for a rock and metal media organisation called TeamRock (now LouderSound), I was responsible for the software, infrastructure, and website during its biggest test: the unfortunate death of Lemmy Kilmister. Fortunately, due to my desire to experiment and play with new technologies, I, and my team, had already migrated our slow to provision virtual-machine centric infrastructure to containerised workloads running on Amazon Web Services the year prior, 2014, not long after the public launch of Docker.As much as I enjoy writing software, scaling infrastructure, and leading teams, I quickly realised that my passion was helping others learn and be successful. I started presenting at local user groups in 2016, working my way up to conferences, before eventually moving into a full-time Developer Advocacy position at InfluxData - where I presented and taught workshops at 42 events in 2019.Just before COVID landed, I had started building out the Rawkode Academy (https://youtube.com/rawkode), a YouTube channel, where I help educate and entertain people who are learning cloud native, Kubernetes, and adjacent technologies. I've recorded over 200 videos / 400 hours of content; with a whole lot more to come.Outside of technology, I enjoy reading science fiction, drinking craft beer and whisky, and very-very-very slowly learning to play the piano.