Mike Schinkel

While I have over 25+ years of development experience over 7 years as a professional programming trainer, I have now worked with Go for 5+ years on a variety of projects, some targeting all of Mac, Linux and Windows. I am available to both mentor developers who are brand new to Go and want to get up to speed using it quickly — especially if coming from a PHP background — and also to do development of custom packages for teams using Go, especially if integrating with Docker, VMware, Tart VM, VirtualBox and/or using JSON.

10 years ago I designed and implemented the Git for workflow for the team on my largest project. It is similar to GitFlow but specific to our use-case. Since then I have used Git daily in my professional capacity.

I started using VMware decades ago, but recently my involvement ramped up when I used both CentOS and Windows Server as test machines while working for a major computer hardware + services company, and because of that I decided to buy and build a VMware ESXi server for my homelab, and I administer and use it almost daily.

I have automated a Linux Server ISO build processes with Packer and bith Ubuntu and CentOS for a major computer hardware and services vendor and use Packer for my own use to create Debian VMs for running Kubernetes with Tilt VM on Apple Silicon.

I maintained a database-server related Kubernetes Operator for one client, and developed an Kubernetes External DNS Provider for another client. I run Kubernetes at home on both my Mac using Tilt VMs as well as in a Debian VM running on my VMware homelab server.

In recent years I have used Sqlite extensively, preparing a database for use by contestants in a Data Science contest to help a non-profit, and developed several open-source apps that use Sqlite with GoLang. Prior to that I worked as a PHP developer targeting MySQL from 2007 through 2019. Even earlier I worked with other databases for over 20 years, included 12 with Microsoft SQL Server while my earliest databases were dBase II, dBase III and then Clipper which I wrote a book about.

I have been studying and/or developing RESTful APIs since 2006 wheren I coined the term RESTafarian. I have developed numerous REST-ish APIs over the years, mostly without HATEOAS. In recent years I have fallen in love with Go and its almost perfect fit for developing HTTP-based APIs. I have both designed and developed as well as used many APIs over the years, the most recent of which was when creating both a API client for a bespoke DNS API backed by InfoBlox and relatedly a Kubernetes External DNS Webhook Provider for using said API client.