My name is Alan Vardy; I am a Product-minded Senior Developer living on the beautiful West Coast of Canada.
I love working remotely on backend Elixir services and enjoy playing with Rust in my free time. I pride myself on being a high-output individual contributor who leaves code better than he finds it and actively improves the overall health of codebases. I enjoy contributing beyond myself through project management and technical leadership because the most challenging part of this work is the people, not the code!
Some of my values:
- Code quality and tests help us ship faster, not slower 🚢
- Tooling and linters prevent bikeshedding 🚲 🏚️
- Software is only a dumpster fire when we let it be one 🔥
- Continuous, steady improvement over huge rewrites 🛠️
- Fixing small bugs today prevents large issues tomorrow 🐛
- Magical things happen when developers can work in uninterrupted chunks of time 🕙
- I'm paid well, and thus, invest in myself and my tools 🚀
- A candid conversation now saves a lot of hurt later 🩹
- Kindness is mandatory, not optional 🥰
If our values align, be sure to drop me a line 😆
Alan Vardy
