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Name: Pradeep Gowda

Type: User

Twitter: btbytes

Location: Carmel, IN

Blog: https://www.btbytes.com/

Hi there ✌️

This is Pradeep Gowda.

This is the perfect place to talk about programming and stuff ;)

I like programming in: Python, Nim, and Scala
I have programmed professionally in: Java, Javascript, Bash
I have done non-trivial amounts of programming in: Erlang, Rust, D, C, C++, Lua
I want to get good in: OCaml (or F#), Nix, and Go
Languages I wish I could be programming: Common Lisp, APL, and FORTH
My most recent professional experience is in leading and writing code on development teams in the cybersecurity engineering domain while solving for large scale data gathering, processing and producing data products

These are some of my links related to programming:

List of talks I have given
Current projects
My Code in Books
Old projects - likely all of them of archive-worthy

Recent Projects

Aug 2024. Simplestatapp, a demonstrative example of how to build a tiny (by modern standards), a standalone web application that has database support etc for under 6MB, and can be deployed to a PaaS provider like Fly.io. This one helped me understand C compiler and linkers a bit better.
Aug 2024. Tohray, A microblogging application in Nim. This helped me learn Nim as a practical language, prologue web framework, multi-stage docker builds etc..
Apr 2024. Pandaku, a fly.io deployment of pandoc API. Has Docker, Fly configs, and example code on how to use the API

Recent Hacks

Aug 2024. I used Claude 3.5 Sonnet to write a MacOS Automator script to convert .png/.jpg etc to a smaller sized, web optimized .webp format. I'm really thrilled that I was able to go from having to use command line, (and context switching) to something I can do in the Finder. In this case, Claude was acting as my tutor, and I learnt something new. You can see my thread on X on how it all went down; and the resulting MacOS workflow is here on github.

Contact

You can get in touch with me: ✉️ pradeep🌀btbytes.com, Twitter/X or LinkedIn.

Education

I have a Masters in Computer Science from Purdue University and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from PESIT.

Work Experience

I have worked in the recent past for: Ollyver (startup I bootstrapped), Microsoft and Proofpoint.

Location

My home town is Bengaluru, India. I live in Carmel, IN - a suburb of Indianapolis, IN in the USA.

Learning

(Aug 2024)

I'm practicing "leetcode" programming
Learning generative AI and large language models
Reviewing and revising Distributed Computing, and stream processing concepts
How to use self-hosted/local Generative AI for local development
Enjoying nim programming

Writing

(Aug 2024)

I blog at https://www.btbytes.com/

Pradeep Gowda's Projects

aas

Code to accompany Advanced Analytics with Spark from O'Reilly Media

alar-data

V. Krishna's Alar (Kannada - English) open data dictionary corpus licensed under OdBL.

alfred-workflow-upload-s3

This is an Alfred workflow that helps you upload image in clipboard or local to AWS S3

annotated-source-pandoc

Use pandoc and highlight.js to annotate source code

apache2

Development repository for Opscode Cookbook apache2

This is a collection of modules that I've released over the years. Most of them stand alone, or have just one or two dependencies in here, so you don't have to download this whole repo. You may find some ddoc here:http://arsdnet.net/ddoc/ or you can always ask me for help.

asciidoc-docs

The documentation for the AsciiDoc language as processed by Asciidoctor. The documentation in this repository serves as the initial contribution for the AsciiDoc Language specification project.