
Gideon reads
Considerations
Recognised as 'One to Watch' on the Tempo Rising Super Star shortlist in 2020, I've been the lead architect in an innovative FinTech for two years. From introducing Flow Architecture and DDD while migrating legacy systems to a modern, sustainable platforms, to working with stakeholders across all levels, I see my role as balancing the technical and the human. I'm TOGAF-certified with experience in both AWS and GCP architecture, and specialise in effective, readable documentation.
Solutions Architecture is a broad church. Here's the parts I'm really great at.
I've built full knowledge bases from scratch. I use TOGAF's concept of an architectural repository, and go deeper, building pattern libraries, templates, system architectures and runbooks/playbooks. I have a rigorous background in technical documentation.
I love to work with SREs, Dev-Ops and risk and compliance teams to institute BCP and Disaster Recovery plans across enterprises. Instituting and cataloguing game days and other chaos engineering concepts helps us build strong systems.
The mark of a mature architectural function is its measurability. As a lead architect, I've worked to put in place metrics like DORA, Minimum Maintainability Index, and Architectural Maturity Index.
A lot of my working life is wrapped up in designing proof of concept architectures. Then I come home and work on more! I like to use different languages but I really enjoy Flutter and Rust for conceptual work. I've been enjoying OCaml more and more, but my favourite is always Python.
I'm London born and bred, but my dad is Irish and my mother is from Georgetown, Guyana so I've grown up with an international perspective. I identify as queer. My first love will always be books. I've studied literature to MA level. I've turned my ADHD into a superpower and live the phrase Jack of All Trades, Master of None, Still Better Than a Master of One.
The orange cat is named Gideon Nyav, after Gideon Nav of The Locked Tomb series. Both are beefy and orange with amber eyes. Both love women. Both are menaced by a small dark creature. It fit immensely. Gideon is more fourteen year old boy than cat. He refuses to play with toys and instead prefers watching YouTube. The black cat is named Studio Ghibli Soot Sprite the Cat, or Gigi. He likes to play fetch and try to suplex his brother.
Considerations
As Gideon enjoys his rest, Gigi appears to torment him.
Why are you awake and moving when you could be a heating pad?
Gigi has no idea where his brother is
Gigi has nothing to do with the bite marks on your ankle.
Gideon slapped him for the small crime of biting him on the ass. Now Gigi cries alone.
Let me help you prune that spider plant...
A nice warm cuddle after a long day (it was 9am).
Gideon prefers examining my plants to playing with toys, so I put this greenhouse at eye level for him.
I got Gigi, and a month later, I got Gideon. They are the same size despite the age difference because Gideon has always been massive. Here, he forces Gigi into a cuddle.
Just checking.
Leave me to my musings.