Yeah She Codes is a personal online coding journal
My name is Cari Liebenberg, I’m currently working in a devops team learning the devops way.
I continuously look for better ways to code and look forward to sharing thoughts and ideas.
I have been dabbling with website development since I was 12 years old, and actively working as a website and application developer for the past 10+ years.
Development is my passion, and finding better ways to develop is a big part of my daily routine. I enjoy working with other developers and discussing development terminology. (Go team.)
I also partake in the insane and addictive sport of roller derby. I have been skating for the past 6 years. I am part of the Johannesburg based roller derby team Golden City Rollers.
When I am not behind a keyboard I am usually on skates or helping out on track.
Quotes
These quotes have helped guide me while I develop:
If it is hard to code, it will be hard to use.
We [developers] can do anything, but we can’t do everything.
Amateurs practice till they make the shot. Pros practice until they can’t miss.
Development and programming skills
I have had the good fortune to work on various projects ranging through the three tiers of development. I jump on to anything that needs to get done.
My skills and interests include:
- Front End: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typescript, JSON.
- Styling Libraries: Sass, Less, Bootstrap, Material.
- Javascript Frameworks & Libraries: jQuery, Angular 1, Angular 2 +, React, NodeJS
- Additional markup experience: YAML, XAML (for xamarin dev), XML.
- PHP related: PHP, Laravel, WordPress
- Python related: Python 2, Python 3, Django, Falcon, Flask.
- Database related: Mysql, Sqlite, MongoDB
More general skills that I’ve picked up working on various projects:
- API development
- UML
- Project planning, Project spec’ing, converting projects into sprints and estimating deadlines for features
Server related
- Server management
- Version control
- Linux setup and maintenance experience
- Ansible
- Git, Github, BitBucket
- Messing around with servers on digital ocean
- Micro services: Docker, kubernetes.
- Cloud; aws, azure.
Devops related (This is my current focus, so this is where I’m at)
- Devops: Continuous integration + Continuous deployments
- Tools: Rancher, Code Climate, Circle CI, Jenkins, Jira + Confluence, Slack etc
And I enjoy all of it. I never. stop. learning.
Contact
If you would like to get in touch with me, you can either leave a comment on a blog post, or simply message me on Linked in.
(Also if you would like to collaborate in some way, or contribute to this blog feel free to get in touch.)
Github
I do the odd pet project on github, not much, but there’s a bit.
And sorta still getting this one up and running…
I have started a public organisation space for Yeah She Codes 🙂
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Unsplash for their awesome free photos.
Currently reading
I have set a personal goal to read a chapter a day of a development book.
- Kubernetes in action
Highly recommended.
Other reading material I recommend
- Code Complete
- Clean Code
- Design Patterns Explained by Alan Shalloway