About me

    A picture of me at a young age holding a drill while disassembling part of a CRT television

    Young me looking really cool while disassembling an old CRT

    Hi there, I’m Boris. I’m just a guy going through life doing his own thing.

    I’m a big nerd when it comes to technology, especially programming, Linux, and things like that. I love learning new things, solving problems, building things, and teaching people. I’m always tinkering with a few projects. You can find out about what doing these days in my Now page. You can also learn about all the nerdy stuff I use in my Uses page.

    I value curiosity, kindness, people, and community. Life is a better experience when you focus on the people around and you make each other happy. To me, the journey is much better than the destination. It’s the friends, experiences, and memories you’ve made along the way that matter most. I want to help make the world a better place. I’m not always sure how I’ll go about doing that, but I want to use my skills as a nerd to help out.

    If you’d like to reach out to me, you can contact me via email at beraboris@gmail.com. I’d like to ask you to refrain from any kind of solicitation. I’m not interested in promotions, jobs, advertisements, or anything like that. I want to hear from real people.

    Professionally, I’m a software developer. I’ve been doing this for quite a few years now and I think that I can say that I’m quite good at it. These days, I’m in the dev ops / platform engineering space but I’ve done all kinds of stuff like tax / compliance software, CI/CD, websites, and e-commerce. I also like to dabble in security from time to time. Breaking things is always fun.

    I like to give talks from time to time. It’s a good way for me to share my ideas and to teach. Here’s the list of talks that I’ve given in reverse chronological order:

    You can also find some of my stuff elsewhere on the internet:

    Finally, you can find my technical work on my GitHub profile. This is mostly personal projects and some open source contributions.