I love technology. In particular coding, security, infrastructure and hardware. I also happen to like making users happy, which usually has the positive effect of making a business successful.

I consider myself a middleware / back-end developer and my main professional programming language is Java. In the past I've coded in C (including some of Linux kernel hacking), Smalltalk and Lisp... and basic (old Atari 2600 if you must know). I code for fun in other languages (Ruby, JS, Kotlin and Scala) and I've tried learning a few other ones but failed as I got distracted by other things (Haskell and Erlang one day I shall conquer you!)

At the moment, I'm learning Kubernetes with the aim to simplify micro-services platforms (not that a micro-service architecture is the perfect solution for any problems). In the past, I worked with Ansible and Terraform (and puppet in a previous life) after all, who wants to configurea fleet of servers by hand?

I'm quite lazy, which means that I need to automate everything that is repetitive and/or dull (I'm a Maven lover! There' I said it!) and I get a bit restless when a seasoned developer codes without using shortcuts (life is too short to see you how you dance with a mouse to hit the "run tests" button!).

If you want to contact me, please send me a PM in twitter, github or linkedin or email me to augusto [dot] rodriguez {@} gmail (dot) com.