I have spent my entire adult life working in the software business. I'm a passionate advocate for, and user of, Open Source software.
My main focus is in the Big Data space, chiefly using the AWS suite of Big Data tools ( DynamoDB , Elastic MapReduce , Redshift , etc).
I am an unabashed Perl evangalist, but I also write a lot of code in Python (mostly in the context of PySpark ) and Node.js . I was a very early adopter of Hadoop and NoSQL databases and have been using them over 10 years now.