Year in Reivew – The Software Mentor

Year in Reivew

2018 In Review

Community

Became a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies
Organized my first conference, Lambda Squared 2018!
Continued organizing the local functional programming user group, @FunctionalKnox
Co-organized a local hackathon for Hacktoberfest
Became Director of Speaker Relations for CodeStock
Presented at 5 different conferences
Presented at 4 different user groups
Interviewed for Developer On Fire: Episode 383 – The Meaning of Professional
Recorded a talk for Code on the Beach 2018 about how functional programming made me a better developer
Reviewed ~40 abstracts for potential speakers to various conferences
Reviewed 3 books for Manning Publications
Presented at Radio Systems on SOLID design principles

Professional

Pilot Flying J
- Completed the rollout of a standard CI/CD pipeline using VSTS (now Azure DevOps)
- Completed training for unit/integration testing for various application teams
- Wrote the DevOps Toolkit project that helped other teams bootstrap their CI/CD pipeline creation
- Trained various developers on how to set up their own CI/CD pipeline and what things to consider when developing a pipeline
- Created an exercise to teach developers Generics, Actions, Funcs, and Extension methods by implementing our own version of LINQ
SentryOne
- Joined the product team focusing on Plan Explorer
- Implemented an enhanced experience when working with statistics in Plan Explorer
- Gave an internal presentation on how to perform excellent code reviews and why we should do them
- Created internal documentation on unit testing naming guidelines, determining what to test
- Developed an internal training tool that teaches developers the mechanics of testing by following Test Driven Design (TDD), Pair Programming, and Ping Pong

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