The Intervening Years

Is this thing on?

“Hiatus” isn’t really the best descriptor

I didn’t officially take a hiatus from my own blog, since it was never much of a blog in the first place. Regardless, with no apologies or excuses, I’m going to perform a brief rewind and fast-forward to catch us up to the present.

2013

• Led several responsive web front-end prototype projects.
• Built a SPA to run in a custom Webkit browser on resource-starved embedded systems.
• Got hopelessly addicted to coffee.
• Left EPAM to join the Solutions Innovation team at eBay Enterprise.

2014

• Supported sales consultants by preparing Magento demo environments to highlight client-specific use cases.
• Built small web apps at work, mostly self-directed.
• Built small web apps at home, totally self-directed.
• Learned how to automate server administration with Ansible and Docker.
• Welcomed our new daughter, Evelyn Rose, into our family!

2015

• eBay announced their intention to spin off PayPal and eBay Enterprise.
  
• Officially became a Magento Certified Solution Specialist.
• Ran a workshop with the Magento UX team on user-centered design methodology at Imagine Commerce 2015.
• Left my post at eBay Enterprise to join the web production team at Anthropologie.
• Started using Python and ES6 full-time on a next-gen web platform project.

2016

• Started learning Haskell through reading Haskell Programming From First Principles.
• Attended Philly ETE for the first time.
• Received a promotion to engineering manager for URBN IT.