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Paul here. I'm currently a CNCF Ambassador, a friend of GoBridge, software architect, and developer advocate. You may have seen me online or speaking as a Software Architect at NISC or during my experience as a Developer Advocate at k6 and Grafana Labs. With any of these roles, I'm hoping to ease the pains of Developers, Site Reliability Engineers, and Testers all while creating some fun learning.

I've been developing software professionally since around 1997 after a major career change from accountancy. Creating automated sales and profitability analyses using VisualBasic for Applications within Microsoft Excel piqued my interest, so I decided to take a class in C++ (you can overload operators?!)...I was hooked! Now I knew my true passion was for designing and implementing software solutions.

I started my professional software career writing in Visual FoxPro and VisualBasic. I then moved on to Java shortly after Y2K, continuing with that for many, many years. I've also done some C#, Python, and even a little Perl. The Go programming language is now my favorite jam!

As a CNCF Ambassador, cloud native technologies are my bag these days; Kubernetes, Linkerd, Helm, Kafka, etc. My latest obsession is the Go programming language; mostly because it's different and fun for me. With this, I help out the community as a GoBridge Ambassador and I'm even the organizer for the St. Louis Go Meetup, St. Louis chapter of Cloud Native Community Groups, Grafana & Friends - St. Louis, and MO Reliability groups.

If you're in need of a contributor or have something interesting; I just may say 'yes'!

• Keep up with me on LinkedIn or javaducky.com
• Follow me on Twitter(X)
• Watch me on the StLGo Meetup Channel and at work.

If you'd like me to speak to your group or other details, check out my speaker information.

If you like the things I've been doing and want to help me keep going, please consider buying me a coffee or beer!

Cheers!!!