Software architect · email infrastructure & security
and I have the ability to stretch the limits of what software can do in order to achieve seemingly impossible tasks. Not kidding — I love what I do and I do it well.
“There is no version ready.”
The golden rule of programming: you ship in the time allotted, but there's always room for improvement. The Internet evolves faster every year, so you have to as well.
I've been accused of re-inventing the wheel — but where would we be if nobody tried to re-invent something good enough to make it great?
Aside from my job I like to challenge myself by building this and that, no matter how large, small or impossible it may be. It's my learning process and I simply love it. Think I'm mad, crazy, wonko? Good. :)
The more challenging the better. That's how I got into MIME and SMTP, designing and coding MTA servers and MIME parsers from scratch. Over the years I've written multiple libraries and MTA services with high rates of receipt and deliverability.
Secure, multi-server, multi-tenant, big-data, IPv6-ready, Bayesian intelligent email receipt & delivery — as SaaS and as stand-alone services.
I wrote a PHP code documentor without using PHP's built-in tokenizer — a MIME-style approach, reading lines and counting brackets. It can give the well-known documentor a run for its money.
It supports a custom documentation-comment style for richer information, and the resulting site follows the familiar PHP.net structure. All wrapped in a self-documenting PHP micro-framework built for speed, maintainability and security. I might publish it some day.
Wherever I go I quickly become the go-to person for answers or references. I have a good memory and I pay attention to what goes on around me — you never know who you might need help from in the future.
When that dreadful outage comes and something's off but doesn't make sense, it's good to know as much as possible about the people and the infrastructure. That's how you stay efficient.
Challenge yourself every day.