briancorbinxyz

I'm Brian - A lifetime innovator, tinkerer, and creative and enterprising Software Solutions Architect, Engineering Manager and Technical Product Owner with over two decades of experience across the software industry and finance for investment banking (+a decade more coding and hacking for fun!). My love for technology got its start after tinkering with code in BASIC as a child in the UK on a Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and RM Nimbus.

Mission

Ask Maya Angelou:

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

Blogs

• TheCodeInfluencer - briancorbinxyz.medium.com: “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” - A Tech Blog covering various topics in coding, engineering, and engineering management (my views are, obviously, my own)

Digital Garden

• The Life of Brian Corbin - thelifeof.briancorbin.xyz: Explore multipotentiality with me and "Learn Out Loud" (aka #learninpublic) in my digital garden / "Bamboo Garden" / personal wiki - a (sometimes chaotic) collection of notes, articles, letters, and thoughts.

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