About Me

I am an AI-first software engineer, cybersecurity expert, computer scientist, and information technologist . I’m also an old. My first computer was an 8088 I got in 1985! I learned to program in BASIC and use MS-DOS on it. I started programming in C on a Sun SPARCstation in 1993. I did not own that computer, at least, not in the literal sense, but boy did I have fun with it! 😉 I used Mosaic to read Yahoo! in 1995 but I spent more time using Archie, FTP and Telnet back then 💾.

I got a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Memorial University in 2001 🎓. From there I went to work for a federally funded technology lab that no longer exists 🤷. But not all was lost, the contributions I made to the FreeBSD MAC Framework while working there were free and open source. I have continued to create and contribute to various open source projects over the years. I publish what I create in Gists and on GitHub. I use this GPG key to sign my commits and releases. 🔑

I am on LinkedIn 💼 where I detail my professional experience which includes 8 years in software security and architecture and engineering roles in financial services 🏦 before ultimately founding my IT services company, The Migus Group in 2014, to enable me to contract independently and provide specialized IT services to a range of clients. I’m also on X where I share updates and insights about whatever I’m working on. Currently that’s CloudServers.app ☁️🖥️ — and Lisa Harness. 🤖🧰