A few words about myself

Hello everybody, my name is Ron, and I'm excited to join the community and try out the platform. I've been interested in Crypto for a long while now and I've decided its time for me to change course, learn the technology, contribute, and make it my main focus, at least for a while. I thought I'll document my progress here in this blog.

This is me, looking into older technology. The picture was taken a few years ago in a day trip we took to Acre. Highly recommend it; amazing history and fun city.

For the last 5 years I've been the lead developer in Swifto dog walking. Most of the development there uses PHP over the Drupal CMS, and small nodejs applications running on Heroku. Lot's of integrations with other services, and leverage of various AWS services including lambda functions, Rekognition, etc. Interesting stuff. However now that I want to start a new, I feel that I need to come up to speed and learn some tools and technologies I missed during this time. So here is a list of things I would like to play with and familiar myself with.

Server side language: Golang
Single Page App: Vue.js (jump over React and Angular...)
Etherium: Understand better. Write contracts. No focus yet.
Lightning network: Initially focus on that. Understand and hopefully contribute.
Docker & Kubernetes: Feel comfortable with those two.

I'm married and have three kids. I like trail running. I haven't decided yet how much of my private life I want to share here.

Happy days!