TL;DR

• quality code: clarity, readability, efficiency/scalability, maintainability

• programming, not just coding

• DevOps philosophy & practices: automate, integrate

• Agile approach: continous improvement, perpetual cycle of plan-execute-evaluate

• Microservices/Distributed architecture: ops excellence, efficient/scalable/performant, reliable/fault-tolerant, secure, cost-efficient and sustainable

• Design thinking in problem solving with algorithms:

  • think about the problem
  • design the solution
  • test and deploy

• Best Practices from industry leaders (e.g. FAANG)

Hi :)

My name is Riyan. I make softwares as a DevOps Engineer.

I do that by means of Development & Operations.

For Development, I program with Go. I choose Go for its speed and performance, and because my architecture style is microservices: distributed systems. And, also because I find Go the best programming language for concurrency, as well as to exploit fast chips with multiple cores.

Now, that code has to live somewhere; things need to happen to it. So that's why I also do Ops to build & maintain my own systems.

For Operations, I choose the Cloud. Any cloud theoretically is fine, but you want the most reliable Cloud. For that, I choose the AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

Note: Yes, I was the person who wrote Translingua, the translator app once sold on iOS (until 2022) by Volantiri LLC. If you want to see my code for that, please contact me; I'll dig up the archives for you.