Adam Teller's project work

I'm a curious learner. With technology changing all the time, it's tricky to keep up. But on this platform, I get an edge. An advantage. Thank you NextWork, for inviting me to join this amazing community of like-minded learners and mentors. For showing me that learning by building is a great way to get involved and not just passively watch tutorials. I'm admittedly a Linux nerd. An open source doofus that knows what Windows is, and can also rock a macbook (because, well, it is Unix under the hood) but the dream state is working on a Linux desktop all day every day with results compatible with the world at large. The professional world I live in though... Windows. Thank goodness there are tools that let me get a decent command line experience even though the slashes and line endings go a different way. When I'm not at a computer, I like to get outside and just be. Sometimes, outside means throwing Disc Golf discs at the chained target. Other times, it's just about being quiet. Do you like Coffee? Not everyone does. I do. And Tea. And now recently, that awesomely textured Matcha (Thanks Nat). In my career, I have worked in a few industries. As a youngster I sold Auto Parts and from there became interested in recording music. That didn't pan out and it's fine. I left that field and went into software programming for the web. I still tinker with computers, to get them to dual-boot in the age of UEFI, Secure boot, and signed kernels. It kind of limits the number of Linux distributions I can use (due to impatience of wanting to hit the ground running ASAP), but hey if Ubuntu runs on it, and then gets out of my way, I can get actual work done. I pivoted from being an individual contributor (coding, testing, sharing, refining, repeating) to eventually leading a team of developers as a Development Manager for 5 years until I got laid off due to downsizing. And, around that same time, the tech job market for team leads was incredibly impacted. Getting an interview became (and still is at time of writing) harder than doing the job itself, per the job description. I mean, the interview process itself is an unfair gauge of how well a person can do a job, but (I get it) the interview process is needed and since I've been on hiring teams, it's super critical to find the right fit. I'm hoping to learn all I can about harnessing the power of AI to streamline workflows and be more efficient at whatever it is that I'm doing, wherever that may be. Lastly, cheers to Maya. She encouraged me to write about myself. So I did. Thank you Maya. If you need aspirins as a result of reading the above, ask a teammate to Doordash it from the closest spot to HQ. Just kidding. You may need something stronger.