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Name: Neil Giarratana

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Location: Virginia

The world is run by those who show up - Robert B. Johnson

I'm Neil -- husband, father, coach, live (sports) streamer, programmer, serverless architect, leader, and recovering entrepreneur. My personal mission is to help software engineers find joy in their work by sharing knowledge and reducing friction.

🔭 I’m currently leading the design and development of a multi-instance digital experience platform that ensures seamless experiences while empowering autonomous teams
🌱 I'm currently digging pretty deeply into delivery (and caching) optimization options for a multi-billion user platform to optimize cost AND deliver faster time to first byte (TTFB)
📚 I'm currently reading The Medici (Italian Histories) and Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
💬 Ask me about microfrontends, serverless applications, scaling teams and projects, removing friction for developers

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Favorite Software Engineering Books

The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition your journey to mastery by David Thomas & Andrew Hunt
Clean Code by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)
Refactoring, Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler, with Kent Beck
Implementing Lean Software Development by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck
Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by by Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

In my queue...

Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale by Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O'Reilly
Remote Team Interactions Workbook: Using Team Topologies Patterns for Remote Working by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais
Remote Not Distant: Design a Company Culture That Will Help You Thrive in a Hybrid Workplace by Gustavo Razzetti

2023 Reading List

Implementing Lean Software Development by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck
Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by by Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses into Results by Cy Wakeman
Radical Candor (Yes...again with our leadership team) by Kim Scott
Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, Roy Schwartz
The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece by Ron Jeffries
The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck: A Counterintuitive Approach To Living A Good Life by Mark Manson

2022 Reading List

75+Team Building Activities for Remote Teams: Simple Ways to Build Trust, Strengthen Communications, and Laugh Together from Afar by Christopher Littlefield
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton and Manual Pais
Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being by Robert L. Cross
Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders by Jurgen Appelo
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher
Radical Candor (Re-read this favorite to share with book club) by Kim Scott

2021 Reading List

The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar
The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data (again) by Gene Kim
Essentialism, The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Scotty by Ken Dryden
Burke's Law by Brian Burke
Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity by Scott Galloway

Favorite Software Engineering Podcasts

Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman: https://www.hanselminutes.com/
The Cloudcast: https://www.thecloudcast.net/
The Changelog: Software Dev & Open Source: https://changelog.com/podcast
Does Not Compute: http://spec.fm/podcasts/does-not-compute
Developer Tea: http://www.developertea.com/
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman: http://www.mastersofscale.com/
Rework: https://rework.fm/
AWS Podcast: https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/aws-podcast/
Breach: https://www.carbonite.com/breach
CaSE: Conversations about Software Engineering: https://www.case-podcast.org/
ShopTalk: https://shoptalkshow.com/
Coding Blocks: https://www.codingblocks.net/
Scale or Die: https://www.useproof.com/scaleordie
Full Stack Radio: http://fullstackradio.com/
Embedded: https://www.npr.org/series/469833353/embedded
JS Party: JavaScript: https://changelog.com/jsparty
The Official Vue News: http://news.vuejs.org/
Software Engineering Radio: http://www.se-radio.net/
Serverless Chats: https://www.serverlesschats.com/

Neil Giarratana's Projects

active_admin

The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.

activerecord-postgis-adapter

ActiveRecord connection adapter for PostGIS, based on postgresql and rgeo

alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-nodejs

The Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js helps you get a skill up and running quickly, letting you focus on skill logic instead of boilerplate code.

angular.js

HTML enhanced for web apps

apollo

:rocket: Open source tools for GraphQL. Central repo for discussion.

atomic-emacs

An atomic implementation of emacs keybindings for the Atom text editor.

awesome-micro-frontends

An Awesome list of posts, videos and tutorials on Micro Frontends

branchlint-action

Lint your git branch names using github action.

capdrupal

Capistrano recipies for drupal

carmen-rails

Rails adapter for Carmen (provides country_select and subregion_select)

certbot

Certbot, previously the Let's Encrypt Client, is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt, and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.

dev-env

Development environment template

docker-apache-php55

Docker image with apache 2.4, PHP 5.5, configurable PHP error_reporting setting

docker-compose-swagger-editor

Run swagger editor in docker using swagger.dev (instead of localhost)

docker-drupal-base

Docker image source for Drupal base container

docker-kong-letsencrypt

Add Certbot to Kong docker image

docker-loopback

Docker configuration for Loopback node.js api framework

docker-node-yarn

Dockerfiles for "node-yarn" images from Docker Hub

docker-ruby-app

Docker repository for ruby apps

docs

Documentation site for Markdoc

dotfiles

dotfiles-1

●:page_facing_up: Ryan McGeary's configuration shiznit that makes him productive

dynamoose

Dynamoose is a modeling tool for Amazon's DynamoDB

fullstack-tutorial

🚀 The Apollo platform tutorial app

mongoid-minitest

Minitest matchers for Mongoid

mysql2postgres

Mysqldump, writing in postgresql format

neilsmind

neilsmind.github.io

Personal Blog

node-tdd

VS Code TDD extension for Node and JavaScript

oembed

The oEmbed Spec

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