Merge pull request #37 from softinio/no-meetups

No more meetups

content/post/all-good-things-come-to-an-end.md

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+title = "All Good Things Come to an End"
+date = 2021-04-14T12:03:44-07:00
+description = "After having spent the last seven years organizing technical talks at several meetups I have decided to step down and move on."
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+After having spent the last seven years organizing technical talks at several meetups I have decided to step down and move on. It is an end of an era for me, but I am excited about what's next.
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+I want to take this opportunity to thank all of my co-organizers, all of the speakers I hosted and all the attendees for supporting my efforts to help all of us learn from each other and be a community.
+
+### What Meetup groups I am stepping down from
+
+- SF Scala
+- SF Java
+- SF Elastic User Group
+- Bay Area Nix/NixOS User Group
+- SF Spark and Friends
+- Bay Area Ai
+- GraphQL By the Bay
+
+Of course the above meetup groups will continue with my co-organizers moving it forward without me.
+
+### What will happen to [SF Bay Area techies](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx317LNd-AlbTcE_0FkdJcg)
+
+- The [San Francisco Bay Area Techies YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx317LNd-AlbTcE_0FkdJcg) will live forever, hosting recordings of some of the technical talks I had organized.
+- The sfbayareatechies.com website will be shutdown.
+- The sfbayareatechies twitter, slack, discord and clubhouse club will be shutdown.
+
+### What is next for me
+
+I have a passion to learn, share my knowledge and to code, so I will be spending my freed up to time to contribute more to various open source projects and create my own content to share my learnings, which will include (but not limited to):
+
+- Writing more blogs here
+- Recording screencasts for my new [YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMjtB4EHujxHO2DB3FQ_obQ) <--- PLEASE SUBSCRIBE 🙏 !!!
+- Doing more talks at Conferences
+
+### Keep in touch
+
+Keep in touch all, lets get together sometime for a happy hour (be it virtual or in person (post covid)) and maybe even lets do some pair/mob programming together.
+
+Thank you 🙏🍷 All !
+
+### [Subscribe to my newsletter](http://newsletter.softinio.com)
+

content/post/announcing-sfbayareatech.md

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 I do need everyones help though please join and spread the word to everyone you know. I look forward to speaking with you all on Slack soon.
 
+### Import Update 
+
+[Important announcement April 2021](/post/all-good-things-come-to-an-end/)
+

content/resume.md

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 - Full Stack web application development
 
 ## Experience ##
-### Senior Software Engineer II, Collective Health - 2020 - present ###
+### Senior Software Engineer II, Collective Health: 2020-present ###
+This is where I am working right now. Really enjoying working in the healthcare domain.
 
-### Staff Software Engineer, Mya Systems - 2018 - 2020 ###
+So far:
+
+- Building Data pipelines using Databricks, Apache Spark, Airflow and Python
+- Microservices using Java, Spring, Dropwizard, Go Lang
+- Kubernetes, AWS, Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana)
+
+### Staff Software Engineer, Mya Systems: 2018-2020 ###
 Worked on Building an AI recruiter assistant.
 
 My accomplishments at Mya:
@@ -37,30 +44,30 @@ My accomplishments at Mya:
 - Integration of Mya's platform with several external ATS's most notably this included Workday, Bullhorn, Paychex/MyStaffing Pro and Textkernel.
 - Building new microservices and adding features to Mya existing platform using Python, Django, Flask, Celery, Redis (Including Redis Streams) and Postgresql. This included building REST Services. 
 
-### Senior Principal Engineer, Snagajob — 2016-2018 ###
+### Senior Principal Engineer, Snagajob: 2016-2018 ###
 I built a new data ingestion pipeline to ingest high volume of job postings received from multiple sources and partners. I built this using Scala, akka, akka-http, Play Framework, Kafka and Apache Nifi. I also setup a Kubernetes cluster running on AWS which was used for this new ingestion pipeline. I was responsible for introducing all these wonderful technologies to Snagajob.
 
 Other projects I was involved in at Snagajob involved me creating micro services and REST api’s using Python, Flask, Celery.
 
-### Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Trackmaven — 2015-2016 ###
+### Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Trackmaven: 2015-2016 ###
 Enhanced Trackmaven’s competitive intelligence platform by creating new services using Python, Flask, Django, Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL. Created a new UI Dashboard used by customers to track marketing campaign performance versus their competitor using Angular.
 
-### Senior Software Engineer, Accenture Federal Services — 2014-2015 ###
+### Senior Software Engineer, Accenture Federal Services: 2014-2015 ###
 I worked on the modernization of the Dept of Veteran Affairs eHmp health care system. I was the technical lead of a team of 10 responsible for the development of the platforms sync system. This was a distributed system used to sync patient records across all hospitals. The main stack I used for development was Java, Spring, Dropwizard and Node.js.
 
-### Chief Technology Officer, Healthy Choices At Work — 2012-2014 ###
+### Chief Technology Officer, Healthy Choices At Work: 2012-2014 ###
 I was a hands on CTO and Engineer at this startup. I architected and developed a custom CRM system for the business. This provided a full end to end solution which allowed customers to sign up for the service and manage their own accounts. On the business side it provided the means to run the business by providing the delivery scheduling of the orders and the billing and invoicing management of customers.
 
 The stack used for this was Python, Django, Postgresql and Elasticsearch. For payments our system integrated with Stripe APIs. 
 
-### Principal Software Engineer, Incito Networks LLC — 2009-2013 ###
+### Principal Software Engineer, Incito Networks LLC: 2009-2013 ###
 Worked as a freelance software developer developing custom apps for local small businesses and entrepreneurs. Worked on several software development projects which included me using: 
 
 - Java, Spring
 - Python, Django
 - I developed two IOS apps for clients using Objective C 
 
-### Principal Software Engineer, Powermax Computing Ltd — 1998-2009 ###
+### Principal Software Engineer, Powermax Computing Ltd: 1998-2009 ###
 If you have worked in the UK as an experienced software developer, you realize that the best jobs from all angles are contract / consultant positions. So during this period whilst living in London UK i worked for many well known companies on the biggest projects as a Principal Software Engineer. In the early years my work solely involved coding using  C Programming on a Unix Platform (such as Solaris and AIX) with an Oracle Database backend (included Pro*C and PL/SQL). 
 
 In the more later years my coding was mostly done using Java, Spring, Hibernate and Oracle again as the database backend.
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 The companies I worked for included: O2, IBM, Oracle, National Car Rental.
 
 ### Education ###
-- King’s College, University of London — BEng(Hons) in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Graduated in 1992
+- King’s College, University of London — *BEng(Hons)* in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Graduated in 1992
 - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on Coursera — [Functional Programming Principles in Scala](https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/H5W964KAJ73Y)
 
 ### Projects ###
@@ -79,29 +86,29 @@ I am also working on and leading [ZIO-Zmx](https://github.com/zio/zio-zmx) a new
 
 ### Other Accomplishments ###
 
-I have a passion to learn and network with like minded people with similar interests in technology. Hence over the last few years I have been an active meetup organizer.
+I have a passion to learn and network with like minded people with similar interests in technology. Hence I used to be an active meetup organizer.
 
 #### San Francisco Java User Group Meetup ####
 
-Organizer from June 2020 to present: <http://sfjava.org/>
+Organizer from *June 2020* to *April 2021*: <http://sfjava.org/>
 
 #### San Francisco Scala Meetup ####
 
-Organizer from June 2018 to present: <http://sfscala.org/>
+Organizer from *June 2018* to *April 2021*: <http://sfscala.org/>
 
 #### Elastic San Francisco User group ####
 
-Organizer from November 2017 to present: <https://www.meetup.com/Elasticsearch-San-Francisco/>
+Organizer from *November 2017* to *April 2021*: <https://www.meetup.com/Elasticsearch-San-Francisco/>
 
 #### Bay area AI meetup ####
 
-Organizer from January 2020 to present: <https://www.meetup.com/bay-area-ai/>
+Organizer from *January 2020* to *April 2021*: <https://www.meetup.com/bay-area-ai/>
 
 #### GraphQL By the Bay meetup ####
 
-Organizer from April 2019 to present: <https://www.meetup.com/graphql-by-the-bay>
+Organizer from *April 2019* to *April 2021*: <https://www.meetup.com/graphql-by-the-bay>
 
 #### Scala DC Meetup ####
 
-Organizer from October 2016 to February 2018: <https://www.meetup.com/dc-scala/>
+Organizer from *October 2016* to *February 2018*: <https://www.meetup.com/dc-scala/>