peppapig450,Nick,github

Info

Hi there, I'm Nick a first year Computer Science Major with both ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder. And I am always eager to learn new programming styles and techniques and improve my existing abilities. :D

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Skills

Problem-Solving:

Analytical thinking and problem-solving
Ability to think outside the box and develop creative solutions
Experience in troubleshooting complex issues and identifying root causes

Programming Languages:

Python:

Proficient in:
- Core Python:
  - Data Structures
  - Control Flow
  - Functions (instance, static, and class methods)
  - Decorators (properties, wrappers, getters and setters)
- Object-Oriented Programming:
  - Inheritance and Polymorphism
  - Encapsulation and Abstraction
  - Mixins
  - __dunder__ magic methods for classes
  - Metaprogramming
  - Design Patterns (Factory Methods and Singletons)
  - Data manipulation (JSON, CSV, YAML and Parquet)
  - Functional Programming
  - Exception handling
  - File I/O
  - Systems administration scripting
  - Asynchronous programming
  - Web scraping
  - Optimization techniques (including cprofile and timeit)
  - Command line apps (Argparse)
  - Docstrings and Type Hints
  - Unit testing (pytest)
  - Logging
  - Serialization with Pickle and Shelve
Libraries:
- Pydantic
- Selenium
- Pandas
- beautifulsoup4
- requests
- Pyarrow
- Jinja
- Numpy
- Pytest
Development Tools:
- Poetry
- Mypy
- black
- autopep8

Scripting:

Proficient in:
- Python scripting for Windows, Linux and MacOS
  - Bash, Posix sh, and ZSH scripting for managing Linux and MacOS
  - PowerShell scripting for Windows

Web Programming:

Proficient in:
- HTML
- CSS
- Vanilla JavaScript and basic TypeScript

Databases:

Proficient in:
- SQL databases including MySql and Postgresql
- NoSQL databases including MongoDB
- Sqlite for simple caching

Java:

Proficient in:
- Core Java (OOP concepts, primitive data types, control flow)
- Exception handling
- File I/O
- Database connectivity (JDBC for SQL)
- Build tools:
  - Maven
  - Gradle
- Building user interfaces with JavaFX/OpenJFX (using FXML)

Development Tools:

Git (Github, Gitlab)
VSCode
Build Tools (build automation):
- Meson, CMake, Autotools (libtool, Make)

Command line & Systems Administration:

Proficient and comfortable on the command line with extensive experience in various areas, including:
Network Management: SSH, scp, rsync, curl, wget, aria2
Security: gpg, openpgp
System Administration:
- File System Management: Proficient in partitioning, formatting, and managing filesystems (e.g., XFS, BTRFS, LVM and RAID with experience in tool usage like cfdisk, fdisk, gdisk and parted)
- Network file systems: NTFS and Samba
- Bootloader Configuration: Experienced in configuring bootloaders for different system types (UEFI/BIOS) and partition schemes (MBR/GPT) with GRUB and Systemd-boot, including dual booting Windows and Linux
- Utilities: top/atop/htop, df, du, find, etc.
- Text manipulation: grep, ripgrep, sed, awk, tr, cut
- Network monitoring: nmap, netcat, tcpdump, iptables
- Systemd services, CRON jobs

Operating Systems:

Proficient on any operating system:
- Linux:
  - Extensive experience with Gentoo Linux, Arch Linux, and Debian-based distros (e.g., Ubuntu, Mint)
  - Familiar with NixOS, RHEL-based distros (e.g., Red Hat, CentOS, Rocky, Fedora), and SUSE Linux
- BSD:
  - Familiar with OpenBSD and FreeBSD
- Windows: Advanced power-usage with Powertoys
  - WSL
- macOS
- Package managers for all of these:
  - Adept at using package managers across various distributions: APT, pacman (AUR), nix, dnf/yum, portage, zypper, winget/scoop, and Homebrew