Collins Abitekaniza

Despite some of its short-comings, I love working with python mainly because of its ease of use both as a scripting language and to build more complex applications at the same time. For the past 3+ years, I've mostly used the python language in building web applications, computer vision, web scraping, and automating repetitive tasks and work-flow (scripting).

For about 4+ years, I've been working with javascript both on the front-end and backend (Node.js). On the front-end, I've interacted with a bunch of frameworks and libraries but tend to lean more towards Angular.

Given a chance, I'm more likely choose typescript over any other alternative to writing javascript. Given the maturity of the language, typescript provides a set of features that enforce clean and organized code i.e static typing, interfaces, generics, etc. Typescript is also easier to integrate with an already existing codebase given the fact that every given piece of javascript code is almost always valid typescript code. Recently, I've started contributing to the Typescript programming language mostly to improve my familiarity with the technology and give back to the community at the same time.

Also an active contributor to the Rust programming language and Cargo (The rust package manager). With things like memory safety kept in mind, rust allows creating efficient and secure applications without compromising on the performance. Working with rust has also taught some important concepts in system programming especially around memory management and these can also be carried over to other system level languages.

I picked up Node.js mainly because of my experience with javascript and it was another good backend technology to learn at the time also given the popularity. I love the ease of getting something up and running with Node.js and it's asynchronous nature (non-blocking IO) once you get used to it. Node.js has it's short-comings though mostly same as/from javascript but with good development practices like testing, static typing, etc most of these can be avoided.

Golang is something I've picked up recently. So far I've loved how brief the language is and its ease of use/simplicity. Go has a rich standard library especially when it comes to web development. Also not forgetting it's built-in concurrency support.

I use docker almost on a daily for development and packaging my applications. Active opensource contributor to the docker ecosystem/tooling (Compose, Kitematic, ...)