It's 2024!

So it's been a few years. Since the time of that first blog post, I've done a couple of things:

2020 - 2024 Personal Updates

• survived CoVID-19 and lockdowns
• watched Dune and got into a car crash
  • I did not get into a car crash when I saw Dune 2
• went to Australia and did not die by Spider
• I turned 30
  • Arguably the hardest thing I've ever done

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I'll also jot down a few relevant professional factoids:

What am I, professionally, doing now?

Since August 2023, I work as a Software Engineer at Celestron, the telescope company.

• I maintain the planetarium desktop application, CPWI, as well as a password tool for wifi-enabled devices.
• I work on the newly released, Origin "all-in-one intelligent telescope", building the web interface for the production-facing QA application

I'm an active volunteer with the civic tech nonprofit, Hack For LA, on 311 Data public service request visualization project. I joined in April 2023, my responsibilities as a Technical Project Lead includes:

• managing the team project board
• running several 311 Data team meetings per week
• I manage the leads of the Dev, UIUX Design, UX Research, and the Product Management team

Since I've joined, we had to transition to a zero-cost infrastructure, replacing our backend infrastructure with free data hosting and an in-browser database for analytical processing.

We're launching in a month! See our dev site here: https://hackforla.github.io/311-data/#/map

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Hopefully that's enough... I'd like to get ^^ this list into a palatable landing page for this site, rather than just a blog post format. I didn't actually want to continue using the Gatsby platform, but it was faster to migrate from Gatsby 2 to Gatsby 5 than to set up a completely new site on a VPS.

We'll see where it leads, hopefully something can happen in less than 4 YEARS!

:)