I'm a full stack developer with 21 years web development experience. I'm well versed in both front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JS and a wide range of javascript libraries as well as back-end technologies ranging from the web servers (Apache, Nginx, IIS) to the databases (MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, MS SQL) to the server side languages (PHP, Python, NodeJS, Perl, .NET) and a number of libraries and frameworks used in conjunction with any of the above. As you can tell I'm mostly into open source tech / Linux but I have dealt with Microsoft technologies quite a bit over the years.

My interest in HTML predates the most popular websites today which started as quaint artisanal side job to a professional title with standards and an increasing level of technological sophistication. Over the years, as a webmaster and head of web development for large consumer facing websites, I've become passionately obsessed about good markup for SEO, Accesibilty and Speed optimization as well as good styling for Accesibility, UX and Conversion optimization.

After working extensively with MS SQL and Oracle for the first years of my career, MySQL (and related technologies) has been my DBMS of choice for over a decade. This happened because most open source CMS, eCommerce and CRM platforms had MySQL as the default DBMS. In addition to using it in dozens of freelance jobs, I also have managed it in my full-time employment for the online gaming industry where db performance is critical. Therefore, among my expertise is to optimize for speed and repair it after ocassional crashes. MariaDB has in the last few years become my preferred version of MySQL. I also higly recommend the TokuDB storage engine wherever InnoDB is usually used.  

I love Javascript. I always have since I first used it in the late 90's. Over the years, I haven't stopped learning more about it and applying new methods, libraries, and frameworks to my projects.  

My experience with this DBMS is more recent but far more intense. A single 16-month project has been enough to get me up to speed on many of the common issues most developers, dev ops and db admins encounter with Mongo ranging from it's sometimes tricky optimization to debuging issues and running scripts to fix them. I have not though scaled MongoDB on a sharded cluster so because of that I'm not yet quite at expert level.

It's an essential part of setting up your websites to optimize your webserver to serve your content as quickly as possible. To this end, I have learned how to tweak Nginx. 

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