My name is Abdou Seck, and I am a database developer with experience in web development. I write ETL processes that make use of a wide array of technologies ranging from single server jobs to distributed systems. I am fairly experienced with Oracle and PostGres, and I, once upon a time, used SQL Server and MySQL.
I am a huge fan of GCP’s BigQuery and Storage products. I also find Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub and Dataflow instrumental in stitching together realtime data warehouses.
I mostly write in Python, Bash, Perl and R, but I will occasionally write some Rust, Go and C. I have dabbled with Haskell in order to get into functional programming, but I would not deem those adventures successful at all. That’s not to say that I am not going to try again whenever time allows. However, in the meantime, I will employ many of the awesome functional programming language features–like partial application, currying, map, reduce, filter, etc.–via the not-so-functional programming languages mentioned earlier.
As far as web development goes, I use the Flask framework on most of my projects. Much of the front-end work I do uses a combination of Bootstrap, JQuery and Vanilla JS. My favorite type of web dev architecture is one where most of the content is generated statically, while the remaining relies on browser APIs like Fetch or XMLHttpRequest to get fetched. This opens up a lot of opportunities for backend implementations, including using serverless types of technologies. I believe this is what some people have decided to dub JAMSTACK. I could be wrong, though.
I also sometimes contribute to open source projects on GitHub.
While I am not the most social person online, I do keep up with some handles on Twitter. Feel free to follow me there, just in case some magical forces compel me to tweet.