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---
layout: default
title: About
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<h1 class="mb-4 d-none d-sm-block"> Kayden Arias Sharky Althen </h1>
<h1 class="mb-4 d-block d-sm-none"> Kayden Althen </h1>
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<p class="text-center d-none d-sm-block">
Sometimes I <a href="https://slides.com/kaydenalthen">talk</a> about tech. Other times I <a href="https://medium.com/@sharkysharks">write</a> about it.
<!-- Other times I <a href="/blog">write</a> about it. -->
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Sometimes I <a href="https://slides.com/kaydenalthen">talk</a> about tech.<br>
<!-- Other times I <a href="/blog">write</a> about it.<br> -->
Other times I <a href="https://medium.com/@sharkysharks">write</a> about it.<br>
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TL;DR - I am a software engineer living in Austin, TX.
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I came to Texas from Connecticut originally to <b class="highlight">pursue foreign language studies in Hindi and Urdu at the Graduate School at UT Austin</b>.
Although I loved my studies and living in India, I never quite found a career that I was passionate about until I started teaching myself to build websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SQL in 2013.
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After a few years of self teaching, I decided to ramp up my knowledge by doing a <b class="highlight">3-month intensive coding boot camp called Hack Reactor, now Galvanize,</b> that
helped me improve from a web administrator and technical tinkerer to understanding how to build full stack, front end to back end web applications.
Being in an intensive coding environment gave me the focus to take my career to the next level and helped me get my first job at a tech company, Rackspace.
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<b class="highlight">For 3 and a half years I worked at Rackspace</b>, learning how to collaborate on a team with other developers, how to write quality automation software, what acronyms like CICD stood for, and what implementing best practices really means.
My experiences both technically and socially at Rackspace shaped me so much as a developer; for all the people who spent time with me in my early Rackspace days showing me the ropes for my first job at a big tech company I am forever grateful.
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After Rackspace I pursued two new opportunities, working for Adobe as a software engineer (full time) and <b class="highlight">teaching full stacking web development at the UT Austin Coding Bootcamp</b> (part time).
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Teaching new developers a skill that can improve the trajectory of their lives in such an incredible way was a very rewarding experience.
It confirmed for me the passion I have for teaching, mentoring, coaching individuals to pursue the difficult journey of becoming a software engineer.
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<b class="highlight">My current coding home is with Adobe as a senior software engineer</b> building robust, secure software systems for large-scale e-commerce operations using Adobe Commerce SaaS services.
I particularly enjoy leading teams to streamline difficult/arduous tasks into automated systems and creatively solving problems. It usually takes <b class="highlight">a lot of work to make something simple</b>; I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing code and processes made easier for clients and engineers alike.
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Technical areas I specialize in:
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<li>api & application development</li>
<li>containerization</li>
<li>continuous deployment strategies</li>
<li>client/server protocols, HTTP|gRPC|TCP</li>
</ul>
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<li>micro-service architecture</li>
<li>SaaS service scaling</li>
<li>infrastructure as code</li>
<li>application and operational security</li>
<li>cloud engineering</li>
</ul>
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<li>chatbot development</li>
<li>GitHub integrations</li>
<li>automated testing</li>
<li>agile sdlc practices</li>
<li>prompt engineering</li>
<li>k8 engineering</li>
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<h4>Service Development</h4>
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<img alt="golang" height="75" width="75" src="/assets/img/golang.png" />
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<p class="pt-3">
Golang • Python • NodeJS • MongoDB • PostgreSQL •
MySQL • DB ORMS • AWS • gRPC • Protobuf • TLS/SSL •
NFS • OpenAI • GraphQL • REST • CDKTF • Serverless • Spark
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<h4>Tooling | DevOps</h4>
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<img alt="terraform" height="75" width="75" src="/assets/img/terraform.png"/>
<img alt="k8" height="75" width="75" src="/assets/img/k8.png" />
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<p class="pt-3">
K8s • Helm • OpenShift • Docker • Envoy • Contour •
NGINX • Argo •Jenkins • AWS CodeBuild/Pipeline • Travis •
CircleCI • Bots • Terraform • Terragrunt • Ansible •
Packer • Git • Cron • bash • ssh •
Heroku • Artifactory • New Relic • Splunk
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<h4>Test Automation</h4>
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<img alt="selenium" height="70" width="85" src="/assets/img/selenium.png" />
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<img alt="pytest" height="70" width="70" src="/assets/img/pytest.png" />
<img alt="saucelabs" height="70" width="70" src="/assets/img/sauce.jpeg" />
<p class="pt-3">
K6 Perf testing • Protractor • Mocha • Chai •
Selenium Webdriver • OpenCAFE • Karma •
Saucelabs • pytest • Jest • go test • JUnit
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<h4>Web Development</h4>
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<img alt="vue" height="65" width="65" src="/assets/img/vue.png" />
<img alt="flask" height="65" width="60" src="/assets/img/flask.png" />
<img alt="grunt" height="70" width="70" src="/assets/img/grunt.png" />
<p class="pt-3">
JavaScript • React|Redux • AngularJS •
Vue.js • Flask • HTML5 • CSS3 • LESS|SASS •
Bootstrap • jQuery • webpack • Gulp • Grunt
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