nickname: sunmeat
role: Software Engineer & Lecturer
focus: Full-Stack, Mobile & Systems Development
experience:
  - 19+ years teaching software engineering
  - 20+ contact hours/week
  - Production development on the side

languages:
  - C++        → performance-critical & systems programming
  - C#         → .NET ecosystem & enterprise solutions
  - Python     → automation, backend & data pipelines
  - Java       → enterprise systems & Android
  - JS / TS    → type-safe fullstack web development
  - Kotlin     → modern native Android
  - SQL        → data modeling & query optimization
  - PHP        → server-side web systems

skills:
  mobile:
    - Kotlin / Jetpack Compose
    - Material Design 3
    - Clean Architecture
    - MVI / MVVM
    - Coroutines / Flow
    - Room / DataStore
    - Navigation Compose
    - WorkManager
    - CameraX / ML Kit
    - Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Crashlytics)
    - Play Store deployment & release management
    - .Net MAUI

  backend:
    - ASP.NET Core / Node.js
    - Spring Boot / Django / FastAPI
    - EF Core / Dapper
    - RESTful API design & versioning
    - Authentication & Authorization (JWT, OAuth2)
    - Message queues (RabbitMQ / Kafka)
    - Caching strategies (Redis)
    - Background jobs & schedulers
    - Logging & structured error handling
    - API documentation (Swagger / OpenAPI)

  frontend:
    - React / Angular / Blazor
    - Electron.js
    - SPA & SSR architecture
    - State management (Redux / Zustand / Context API)
    - Component-driven development
    - Responsive & accessible UI (WCAG basics)
    - REST/GraphQL API integration
    - Build tooling (Vite / Webpack)
    - TypeScript-first development

  databases:
    - PostgreSQL / SQL Server / Oracle
    - MongoDB / Firebase / Redis
    - SQLite / Room
    - Database design & normalization
    - Query optimization & indexing
    - Migrations (EF Core Migrations)
    - Transactions & data consistency

  quality:
    - Unit / Integration testing (xUnit, JUnit, pytest)
    - TDD practices
    - Code review culture

  infrastructure:
    - Docker / CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
    - Cloud deployment (Azure / AWS / Render / Vercel / Netlify)
    - Monitoring & observability (logging, health checks)
    - Environment configuration & secrets management
    - Version control workflows (Git branching strategies)

  ai_ecosystem:
    - LLM API integration (Anthropic, OpenAI)
    - Prompt engineering
    - RAG-based assistants

highlights:
  - Designed and taught 30+ courses across C++, C#, Java, Python & web development,
from first-year fundamentals to industry-ready practice
  - Mentored 1000+ students over 19 years; multiple graduates now working at product companies
  - Built and maintained a full curriculum pipeline - lecture materials, labs, grading automation,
and internal tooling for course management
  - Balanced a ~20-classes/week teaching load with active hands-on development -
kept technical skills current across mobile, web & backend
  - Regularly updated course content to track industry shifts
(e.g. migrating curriculum from Java-only Android to Kotlin & Jetpack Compose)