James Gibbs
Software Developer | 10+ Years
Gamer | 25+ Years
Learner | 30+ Years
Project Manager and Software Architect, managing 3 teams of developers, designers, and testers including training, mentoring, setting priorities, and sprint management. Technical Lead for Angular and ASP.Net WebAPI front ends and MySQL backend. Group wide agile process lead.
Brains are like sharks - if they stop moving, they die. I owe all my success in life to my drive to learn - I even met my wife, my absolute biggest success, in the honors fraternity at Morehead State University.
Current Learning Objectives
- Serverless Computing (Mostly AWS)
- Data Engineering
- Technical Leadership and Coaching
Recommended Reading
Many of the following tomes were read as part of a technical book club that I run at work.
Development
- Pragmatic Programmer (5 star must read)
- Clean Code
- Design Patterns
- Refactoring
- Code Complete
Leadership / Project Management
- The Manager's Path (5 star must read)
- Essential Scrum
- The Design of Design
- The Mythical Man Month
- 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know (Currently Reading)
On Deck (Can't Recommend Yet)
- Pragmatic Programmer (2nd Edition)
- Getting Things Done
Online Learning Resources
I currently am working through Pluralsight and TeamTreehouse at work, and various Udemy courses at home.
Of course, the ever present Stack Overflow deserves a mention.