I'm a programmer focused on Java, JavaScript, micoservices with both REST APIs and messaging, and some web development. Additionally, much of my professional experience is in automated testing technology, with about half a decade of experience with Selenium (and more recent happy experience with its successors Cypress and Playwright, which I highly recommend) and about a year of helping support/maintain JavaScript's most popular testing library, Mocha. My interests in software range far and wide, however.I believe that not only code unit tests but high-level tests of business logic in real running code are valuable (and, modern tooling can isolate behavior in those high level business logic tests similarly). I also believe testing is complementary to static validation (such as compilers do with type systems), with designs that minimize the opportunity for errors (whether as general as "don't repeat yourself" or "fail fast", or specific guidelines about how to make a given language's constructs safer) and with finding the right abstractions (which shouldn't mean bloating your code with layers that hide what you're trying to control, but rather changing its perspective so that your real goals are explicit in the code rather than implicit in the details of its effects). In fact, I await the day when all these techniques are formally verified against a specification that can be automatically translated to a business agreement (because the final answer to "how do we know it's correct?" is "the customer asked for it").I've been gradually learning functional programming over the past several years (first Lisp, then Haskell), and while I haven't done much with the languages that have been teaching me, it keeps making the rest of my code both more straightforward and more flexible. I'm also crazy about databases (did you know relational normalization principles are applicable not just in SQL but anywhere that data has both structure and references?), experimenting with web development techniques that merge old-school elegance with more powerful new adaptations, and little by little working toward a world where all code worth talking about is declarative.If that sounds like someone who can help you with your projects, please don't hesitate to reach out to me!