John Feminella

I've worked with AWS, GCP, and Azure for years, and have built some of the world's largest enterprise systems running in cloud environments, particularly in the financial services and healthcare sectors. Accordingly, I can offer practical advice for scaling workloads of all shapes, sizes, and volumes onto any number of containerization and orchestration technologies.

I've written a number of major production web applications and supporting libraries/microservices in Ruby. Collectively they're serving around a billion web requests per month! I've been a regular speaker at a number of Ruby conferences (around two dozen) and a prolific StackOverflow contributor on this topic.

I've written .NET apps large and small and everywhere in between, primarily service applications using C# with periodic heavy doses of web development thrown in with ASP.NET MVC.

I'm an experienced software auditing professional who believes testing is not merely important for reducing defects but also critical to developing an understanding of how one wants software to work.

Git is my go-to version control system. It's fast, efficient, and effective. Sometimes it's a little overwhelming for beginners, especially if they're coming from a VCS that's not distributed, but despite these minor drawbacks Git is a major part of my daily workflow.

I occasionally reach for CoffeeScript because I'm often hacking on projects that I already use it. While I generally think that transpiled-to-JS languages are an unnecessary fad that don't add substantive value, I think they also have their place in some situations.