It’s been quite a year! I wanted to make a quick recap of what I’ve done this year (outside of work):

  • Service Atlas has been the big project of the year with:
    • Creating new organization in Github and learning all that
    • Learning Go for the backend
    • Learning neo4j
    • Learning to effectively vibe code the frontend
    • Created an MCP server to connect to the API
  • Learning Go concurrency by building a file parser
  • Built Plandicoot, a private project for project resource allocation
  • This blog (46/52 isn’t half bad)
  • Renewed all my AWS Certifications
  • Gained a new Python certification from O’Reilly
  • I’ve been using daily.dev to read articles every day

As for this blog, my goal was a weekly post for a year, which I’ve done pretty good on. I may tone this down to bi-weekly as I’d like to start doing more technical posts. I also intended to get deeper into AI (AWS Gen AI cert, new projects, etc.) so hopefully these two can synergize.