Hi, I'm Snuggs! 👋
I'm an Engineer having 10+ years of experience working in various domains like full stack web development, blockchain cryptocurrency technologies, and backend data engineering. I am a passionate builder, driven by a curiosity for technology and a love for solving problems with code. My journey involves delving into the world of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Music while sharing my insights with the community.
👤 About Me
- 🪙 Involved in Bitcoin & Blockhain contributions since 2012.
- 🏢 Building Information Modeling with Autodesk architecture tooling (10+ years)
- 🔭 Prolific contributor to Open Source Software comfortable in a team leadership role.
- 🚀 Expert in Continuous Integration/Deployment automation workflows & GIT(hub) etiquette.
- 🧠 OpenAI/ChatGPT 3.5 Generative Prompting & efficiency refactoring in LLM needle retrieval.
- 📝 I write lots of well tested code adhearing to specifications, guidelines, and constraints.
- ✍️ Content Writer at dev.to/snuggs, gearing up to share valuable insights with the global coding community.
- 🌐 Member of the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), responsible for contributing to the HTML Standard, Custom Element Web Components, WebRTC API, & Web Audio API.
- 🧠 Artificial Intelligence
- Familiarity with Multi-modal A.I. Model Retrieval via ollama & pgvector
- Generative Vector input model prompting & indexing using Llamma3.2:1b
- Serialize PostgreSQL datasets into RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).
- 🚀 Full Stack Web Development
- Exploring the ins and outs of for dynamic front-end experiences.
- Styling with modern CSS to create modern and responsive user interfaces.
- Utilizing A11y practices under WCAG2 guidelines for a more accessible web.
- Diving into PostgreSQL & PostGIS for efficient and scalable geospacial database management.
- Building server-side applications while knowing when to implement serverless as an adequate solution.
- 🎸 Playing Guitar, Bass, & Drums 🥁
- 🌟 Inaugural organizer and lead speaker for Tech In Motion NYC.
- 🌟 Lead Organizer over the largest Ruby Meetup group in NYC taking it from a membership of 300 to 5,000+
- 🌟 Speaker at many technology conferences around the world. (e.g. GOOGLE, Ruby Conf, JS Conf Paris, Valley Conf)
Thanks for stopping by! Let's connect and explore the fascinating world of technology together. 🚀