About Me
I’m Arie. I’m a software engineer from Sydney. I’m into coffee, cameras, running, cycling, and writing. I used to teach Les Mills classes at a few gyms in Sydney. I write about all these things.
Why have a blog?
I could write in a journal and never show anyone, so why do I publish? Writing something and sending it out into the world is a form of closure. It’s like taking a pile of half-baked ideas scribbled on sticky notes, and transforming it into a hefty paperback. What were once scattered thoughts is now a distinct point of view which stands on its own. Also, I hope you’re entertained, or intrigued, or otherwise get some use out of my blog.
About my work
I was Deputy for 5 years, working across professional services and engineering. Now I’m an engineer at Eucalyptus (Hims & Hers). I’ve worked with a lot of Go, Typescript, and PHP. Sometimes it runs on a laptop, sometimes on an EC2, and sometimes it runs in Kubernetes.
I’ve also worked with a lot of different people: product managers, designers, support agents, frontend engineers, backend engineers, mobile engineers, data engineers, platform engineers, juniors, seniors, mids, mids who should be seniors, seniors who should be mids, staff engineers who should be seniors, bad managers, good managers, pre-sales, post-sales…
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About this site
It’s built with the Hugo static site generator, using a theme I created called etch-less-coffee, with commenting functionality provided by gomments, my own comment server. The website also works with javascript disabled, you just won’t be able to view or add replies.