Clean Architecture: A Book Summary
A book that I’ve wanted to read for a long time is Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin (a.k.a Uncle Bob). I came across his 2012 blog post a while back. I...
About Me
I’m a software engineer focused on backend, APIs, and continuous delivery. I have 16 years of professional experience. I currently work at a client services agency, which serves many brands in different business verticals.
No matter the platform or the business, my main goals are to provide value and help teams perform better. I advocate for continuous delivery principles, such as comprehensive automation and building quality in, as well as patterns, such as trunk-based development, feature toggles, and branch by abstraction.
- Led a team building a mobile app’s backend in ASP.NET Core on Azure
- Led a multi-month database vendor migration with no service disruption, saving countless hours of maintenance and operations time
- Implemented an automated pipeline with comprehensive automated UI tests for a mobile app, decreasing the regression time from days to hours
- Implemented an automated deployment pipeline for a restaurant chain’s website, decreasing release time from hours to minutes
- Experience using many different platforms, including Java EE with Oracle and MySQL, Android, Go, ASP.NET Core on Azure, and PHP on AWS
In addition to my day-to-day work, I am interested in Bitcoin and its many technological and economic innovations.
When I get free time, you can find me spending it with my wife and four boys. Occasionally, I’ll do some work on my house.
Check out my LinkedIn profile for more details about my experience.
Current Book(s)
I Am Not Your Bruh by George Mekhail
Recent Reads
- How AI Works: From Sorcery to Science by Ronald T. Kneusel
- Mastering the Lightning Network by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, and René Pickhardt
- 21 Lessons: What I’ve Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole by Gigi
- The Fiat Standard by Saifedean Ammous
- Modern Software Engineering by David Farley
- Clean Architecture by Robert Martin
- Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song
Open Source Contributions
- Homebrew formulae for libbitcoin, secp256k1, core-lightning, and others
This project was started at last @tabconf w/ @btcsamjones @PoleVaultDream and @dusty_daemon but it stagnated due to a dependency’s maintainer being AWAL, no PR merge
— Vivek (@Seardsalmon) June 14, 2023
Huge W & respect for @btcsamjones for finally bringing it in to the end zone 👏
brew install core-lightning 🚀 https://t.co/C6kuNUB6PN
External Blog Posts
- The pros and cons of programming in Go - May 5, 2018
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