Introduction

Hi, I'm Donald and I'm a highly experienced software engineer/architect living in Bloomington, Minnesota.

I'm passionate about software engineering and I've been practicing and growing my skills over a number of years. I've worked in various domains from network management, education, healthcare, banking, farming, solar, etc.

I love software architectures. And while I value many architectures, including microservices, I have a passion for the following:

Modular Monoliths
Hexagonal
Vertical Slices
Event-Driven
Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

A few of the technologies I've used over the years are:

Java
Kotlin
Python
Ruby on Rails
C/C++

Spring Boot
Hibernate/JPA
Postgres
Redis
RabbitMQ

AWS
Docker
REST
GraphQL
JWT

Typescript
React
Tailwind CSS
Git
and much more...

Other Things About Me

Software isn't my only passion. I enjoy a number of activities with family and friends such as

Hiking
Pickleball
Cycling
Traveling

I also like to give back to my community. I'm currently volunteering to provide food to families in need.