Joey Marianer

Welcome to my home on the Interwebz! Sparse, I know, but I’m a man of few words.

I have been a professional software developer since high-school (I am now in my thirties) in a variety of roles – backend, frontend and even some low-level hardware stuff. I have a bachelor’s degree in math and CS, and I took graduate-level courses but never finished my degree. Learning cool stuff is nice, but fighting the bureaucracy in academia was not.

It turns out one can learn stuff without fighting with academia. My favorite thing to learn was how to be a site reliability engineer at Google. I’m currently working for Microsoft, attempting to apply some of what I learned to a team inside Bing.

I am, of course, always on the lookout for interesting new opportunities. While my interests have varied over the years, I currently find myself interested primarily in frontend and UX work… but anything interesting and outside of the norm is at least worth considering.

Side projects

• I enjoy solving crossword puzzles with family members around the word, so I made a collaborative crossword app. This was written in Node.js and deployed with Heroku; the source code is on Github.
• In an effort to learn Haskell, I am working through Project Euler in Haskell.
• I use this very site to experiment with technologies such as Jekyll, SASS and bootstrap.css. The source code for this site is on GitHub, and it is served using GitHub Pages.
• I am making my first attempt at blogging.
• I have been designing and implementing stuff in HTML for fun (I actually like CSS, despite all the negativity I keep seeing around the Internet). I have a small portfolio.

Likes

• Functional programming
• Language lawyering
• The Cloud
• Walking as a form of exercise (I try to do three miles a day)
• vim
• Travel (I think I may be the last person in America who still enjoys going to the airport)
• The color pink.

Dislikes

• XML
• Seriously, XML
• Open office plans (please don’t contact me about employment if you want me to work in one)
• Dysfunctional office politics
• Top-down hierarchies
• Did I mention XML?

Links

• Resume
• GitHub profile
• Developer Story on Stack Overflow
• Email me

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