You’ve reached a microcosm of software evolution — a timeline of my expertise. I grew up with the early personal computers and worked for Fortune 50 companies in several industries. Now, I’m a .C#/.NET backend engineer having fun with event-driven and event-sourced systems.
Back-end Azure/.NET services for web and mobile apps for clinicians
Cindy explores the world of consultancy
Spreetail
Cindy starts work on asynchronous, multi-threaded, event-driven and event-sourced C#/.NET apps and services, deploys with Gitlab, Helm, and Kubernetes (AKS) to Azure, and monitors operations and performance.
Vagrant, Ansible, and Provisioning
She sets up a remote development environment in a Ubuntu virtual machine with Vagrant. After trying Cheffile and shell provisioning, she uses Ansible playbooks to setup the vm.
WordPress, C/C++/C# and More
Official launch day for Code Onward, Cindy’s business for her freelance remote software development work.
First Client as Freelancer
She lands her first freelance client several months before the official launch.
WordPress
Cindy Rae Writes. Cindy launches the website for her writing by customizing an off-the-shelf theme.
SQL, C#
WinPrism programmer, helping to maintain code and database in support of textbook sales
C#/ASP.NET, XML, SQL, C++/MFC
Software to ensure delivery onboard commercial aircraft, and maintenance of airport terminal chart applications, one a laptop application for the smaller jet and individual pilot.
HTML, Javascript, CSS
The Wildlife Porch, a now-defunct site. Cindy creates a website from scratch for her new side business writing articles on attracting wildlife to small spaces. More at archive.org.
C, C++, UML, Perl, shell, HTML, Javascript, mySQL
Embedded flight & simulation software using C, UML, C++, Rhapsody, VxWorks, Perl scripts, Unix shell scripts; spacecraft test catalog in HTML, Javascript, Perl, mySQL
C++ and Visual Studio
Compaq Computers hires Cindy to develop value-added software in C++/MFC installed on over a million PCs. One particular project would result in her name going on 4 patents
Objective-C on Next
As her second senior project, she programs in Objective-C
dBase IV
While a co-operative education engineering student, Cindy sets up an instrument maintenance database
PASCAL, Data Structures
During her college years, her computer science classes cover PASCAL, data structures, and more
BASIC
She enters and debugs her first BASIC program
Assembly
Helps her father check assembly code on an Apple II+