If you just want my resume, it's right here.
- Highly recommended by self
- Coding since 1982, getting paid for it since 1989
- Next career step:
- happily continuing to code as senior individual contributor,
- VP of Development or CTO of small- to medium-sized business, or
- entrepreneur
- Primarily backend development, but enjoying rekindled interest in front end
- Recently called "grey beard" (meaning one of those older programmers that sits in the back row of huge keynote conference speeches shaking his head & thinking, "We had this stuff nailed in the 1980s with LISP."), which I consider a complement.
- Open source committer: Yaktor, Spring Data Cassandra, JDO, others
- I occasionally adult well
- Prefer companies that hire without whiteboards
- Used to know the Pac Man patterns
- I gave a talk on Spring Data Cassandra at SpringOne 2014 the video of which still around, as long as the link lasts
- Former good volleyball player
- Semi-OK golfer
- Former & future musician
- GitHub profile: https://github.com/matthewadams
- StackOverflow story: https://stackoverflow.com/story/matthewadams until they remove that service
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matthewadams
- Twitter: @matthewadams12
- Favorite word:
monosyllabic
- Least favorite word:
bunion
(moist
doesn't bother me at all) - Favorite numbers:
Austin, TX • Natchez, MS • Browns Pt, WA • Denver, CO • Others...