About

Hi there 👋🏻

I'm Brooks, thanks for stopping by. I hope you find something useful in this digital garden of mine. This site is primarily an outlet for journaling my thoughts and experiences on topics that I enjoy or find important.

About me. I enjoy building things, solving real world problems, and helping people. In the professional world, you will most likely find me at the intersection of those three, writing software and mentoring teammates. My LinkedIn profile has more official information about my employment history, but briefly: I most commonly work with Python/JavaScript/SQL, have experience developing cloud-based full-stack applications, find particular enjoyment in solving data engineering problems, and love using the command line.

If I'm not at my day job, there's a good chance I'm still at my computer working on a side project or reading up about a new technology. This is balanced, however, with several outside hobbies. I consider myself a decent juggler, a fair weather bicyclist, and have recently gotten into camping as a way to disconnect and recharge from the digital world.

My Values

If I had a personal manifesto, it would read like so:

Stay curious and never stop exploring. The world is vast, and there is great joy in discovering for yourself what it has to offer.

Embrace Vulnerability. To err is human, and I find the more often I open myself up and admit my shortcomings, the more often I can connect with people in a meaningful way and give/receive help where it is needed.

Love what you do. I will not live forever. On the contrary, even though life will be the longest thing I ever do, if studies on how aging changes your perception of time are to be believed, my life will be over before I know it. A sobering thought for sure, but also a reverent one. There are things I will not get to do in life, but I am okay with that so long as I spend my time in the pursuit of things that give me purpose and make me happier.