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Hello! I enjoy programming, sports and music. This blog is an attempt to capture basic concepts and/or my skills as I experience and learn more about them!

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Skills, milestones and goals

Hobby

• Swimming and running
  • Swim 1.5km in the pool
  • Swim 600m in the ocean
  • Run a half marathon in 2022
  • Butterfly 200m without stopping
  • Master the flipturn
  • Run a full marathon
• Riding a motorcycle
  • Ride from Auckland to Wellington in 2023
  • Ride an Andes or Patagonia trail in 2025
• Guitar and piano
  • Play Nothin else matters - Metallica on the guitar
  • Sing popular songs on the guitar
  • Learn to play the basic piano chords
  • Learn to play Le Matin - Yann Tiersen
• Badminton
  • Win a local tournament in Bangladesh
  • Become a level B player
  • Win a local tournament in New Zealand
• Surfing
  • Ride a white wave
  • Ride a green wave
  • Surf in Hawaii

Computer Science

• Programming
  • Python: Create an API-based pip package
  • SQL
  • R: Create an API-based R package
  • R: Create and deploy a Shiny app using Kubernetes
  • Rust: Create a Webassembly application
  • Rust: Solve at least 1 year of Advent of Code with Polars
• DevOps
  • Get a program docker ready for AWS ECS and ECR
  • Terraform the scheduling of a program on AWS
  • Terraform a data warehouse
  • Terraform a data engineering tech stack
  • Master kubernetes and ansible
• Data engineering
  • Create a fully scripted ETL pipeline
  • Grok an ETL / ELT tool: Coalesce and Wherescape Red
  • Master Apache Kafka
  • Master Apache Iceberg