• 🌏 I live in San Francisco, California, USA & I often visit Melbourne, Australia where I got my degree (at Monash University) and where my family lives.
• 🔭 I maintained the open source rules_ruby for Bazel, and now helping with the canonical ruby rules.
• 📫 How to reach me: @kig

Currently, I'm a Principal Software Engineer for HealthSherpa.

I used to be a CTO at four separate startups, largeset of which was Wanelo.

I was a Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase and Fossa.

I am big open-source proponent, and I wrote about a few dozen open-source Ruby gems with over 120M downloads.

Among the most popular gems are:

• colored2 — ASCII color ruby gem
• sym — Symmetric encryption vi CLI or API based on OpenSSL
• simple-feed - Redis based backend for twitter-like feeds
• puma-daemon — Puma daemonization library

I do a lot of Infrastructure and Scalability work, so among my other projects are:

• C++/CMake Project Template with Google Test library
• Bazel/Starlark Projects including Rules Ruby.
• BASH Projects.

I play piano, guitar and drums.

I've been DJ-ing since the vinyl days (house, tech-house, progressive, techno, downtempo)

• My DJ name is LeftCtrl

I also have been composing and producing electronic music for over 20 years,

• My band name is PolyGroovers.
• Here is the most recent playlist.
• And these are some of the classics.

I have also written projects in C/C++ for Arduino platform.

Some of my popular projects and posts are:

• BORAT — Bathroom Occupancy Remote Awareness Technology
• Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance Library for DC motors or Servo Motors.
• How to use arduino nano mini pro with ch340g on Mac OS-X

Based on the template by Phil Nash.