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MichaelCurrin/README.md

Hi, I am a software maker

Also a "Data genie" and "open sourcerer"

I'm a Senior Software Engineer working in Amsterdam. I build projects for fun with Python, JavaScript, Jekyll and more. A big fan of elegant designs, clean code, and static site generators.

My profile links are here - bio.link/michaelcurrin.

Blogs and writing 📜

I've very active, writing content daily to at least one of these.

Area Links
Blog writing dev.to - @MichaelCurrin MichaelCurrin.github.io - Coding Blog
Reference and learning MichaelCurrin.github.io - Dev Resources MichaelCurrin.github.io - Dev Cheatsheets MichaelCurrin.github.io - Code Cookbook MichaelCurrin - learn-to-code

I'm also active on Jekyll Forums - see my profile @MichaelCurrin.

Tools and skills 🎓

Python is my first love and preferred language - see my Python repos on GitHub.

  • Backend (render HTML and build REST APIs)
  • Frontend (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
  • Python packages (Requests, Pandas, Django, Flask)
  • JavaScript packages (Express, Vue, React, TypeScript, ApexCharts)
  • Shell scripting (Linux and macOS)
  • Software testing (TDD, BDD, Selenium browser tests)
  • Monitoring and observability (Datadog, New Relic, and PageDuty)
  • Architect and build AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform (SQS queues, Postgres, MongoDB, CloudFront, DNS, EC2, and Lambdas)
  • Containerized services (Docker and Kubernetes)
  • Deployment pipelines (Netlify, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins)
  • Data Science (web scraping, data visualization, machine learning)
  • Write documentation and make documentation sites

More details on the tools:

Area Tool
OS Linux macOS
Languages Bash Python Node.js JavaScript TypeScript
Frameworks Flask Vue
Databases PostgreSQL SQLite MongoDB
Infrastructure Docker Kubernetes Buildkite Terraform GitHub Actions Netlify AWS Datadog

I've also done some programming in MySQL, Rust, C, Arduino, Deno...

I’m currently learning more about 🌱

  • Go
  • Vue
  • Python

Open source contrbutions

GitHub Stats

Here are some stats from the GitHub Readme Stats project for my profile.

Top languages card Streak stats card Profile stats card

The S score means "Top 1%" and is better than A+. Stats generated using GitHub Readme Stats service.

Projects 💼

I like to make quickstarts which can be used as templates to make websites, such as with React, Vue, MkDocs, Jekyll or Docsify. See my quickstart projects on GitHub.

My gists are available on a one-page site - Gist Viewer

What is this README profile thing? 🤔

Read more

This page you are reading is a profile readme. Around July 2020, GitHub made this a public feature.

To make one, create a repo named after your username (matching case exactly) and create a README.md file in it. Then go to your GitHub profile and you'll see your README appear there ✨.

Pinned

  1. badge-generator badge-generator Public

    Magically generate Markdown badges for your docs 🛡️ 🦡 🧙

    TypeScript 330 103

  2. auto-commit-msg auto-commit-msg Public

    A VS Code extension to generate a smart commit message based on file changes

    TypeScript 120 13

  3. docsify-js-tutorial docsify-js-tutorial Public

    Build a Markdown-based docs site using DocsifyJS and GH Pages 👩‍🏫 🏗 📒 🕸

    Makefile 33 38

  4. instant-website instant-website Public

    The fastest way to make and share a webpage about a product/business/person

    JavaScript 3 2

  5. boris-the-babybot boris-the-babybot Public

    Tool to post daily random tweets for a Twitter bot

    Python 1

  6. code-cookbook code-cookbook Public

    Reusable code patterns which you can use as reference or copy to your project 👩‍💻👨‍🍳📖🥗

    Shell 44 17