hxtree - Overview

About Me

System Engineer | PMP-certified | Thought Leader
Software Engineering Lead (SEL) for a high-traffic, front-facing platform at a leading global financial services firm managing trillions in assets, serving millions of users monthly.

I bring decades of experience in software engineering and architecture and currently focus on cloud-native systems and AWS architecture. I share practical insights from real-world production systems, run weekly dev jams with my team, and maintain evolving open-source libraries — check my profile to see what I’m working on.

What I’m Working On

  • Architecting and evolving a high-traffic platform serving millions of users
  • Designing cloud-native systems on AWS (AWS Solutions Architect – Professional in progress)
  • Running dev jams to experiment, learn, and share ideas
  • 3D printing and painting models
  • Building a high-tech camper van

What I Share

  • Lessons from high-traffic production systems
  • Cloud-native patterns & AWS architecture insights
  • Dev jam experiments you can try in your projects
  • Open-source libraries & tools for solving real-world problems

Languages & Tools

I choose languages and tools not just for performance, but for how they shape thinking, collaboration, and long-term system evolution. My focus is on clarity, maintainability, and real-world impact.

Present

ShellScript Typescript JavaScript SASS HTML5 Markdown React Bootstrap5 NodeJS Nginx Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes AWS CDK Git AWS PNPM NPM Packagist Debain Bustr Ubuntu Kali Windows Jira Confluence Slack GitHub GitHub Actions Dependabot Vim NeoVim Bash Visual Studio Code Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Zbrush KeePassXC VLC media player

Past

MariaDB Udemy Angular PHP 8.x PHP 7.x JetBrains PHPStorm Python Fanuc Robots C# PHP 5.6 PHP 4.x PHP 3.x C++ Lua Java Perl Ruby Powershell VisualBasic.Net DarkBasic VisualBasic6.0 C ColdFusion Assembly ActionScript RabbitMQ RubyGems SVG Less CSS3 CSS2 CSS1 Apache XHTML DTD HTML 4.01 HTML 3.2 HTML 2 HTML 1.0 BatchScript Zend Framework Symfony Bootstrap 4 Bootstrap 3 Bootstrap 2 Zurb Foundation Siimple Yarn Redis JQuery TensorFlow Rss Threejs Chart.js Laravel MaterialUI Terraform Serverless Stack
Oracle MySQL MongoDB SQLite MSSQL ElasticSearch Apache Solr Selenium CodeCov GitLab CI Ansible TravisCI Jenkins Wordpress Drupal Moodle GitLab Synology SonicWall Graylog Ubiquiti Microsoft Active Directory OpenLDAP LDAP
Shibboleth SAML Oauth RBAC Insomnia GraphQL Mustache Postman Grafana SAMBA NTFS RADIUS NMAP A++ On Prem Servers RAID Authorize.net Salesforce MailChimp Google Analytics Constant Contact Stata GoDaddy Tucow DigiCert Bind9 GSuite Grunt Kaspersky PSP Homebrew Game Developer LogMeIn PHPMyAdmin KeePass2 KeeperSecurity Trello .Net Borland C++ Gimp Inkscape OpenOffice MS OFfice Sublime Notepadd++ Adobe Premium SketchUp 3D Studio Max Maya Blender Dreamweaver Nano Visual Studio Lotus 123 Eclipse Stack Overflow Super User SurveyMonkey Zoom Atom LXD LXC VirtualBox Linux Mint XFCE Alpine Linux Arch Cent OS Debian Suse Red Hat Apple Windows XP Windows 95 Windows 3.1 MSDOS

... and more.

"nihil sub sole novum" 😉