I'm a programmer. I've been doing this for what seems to me to be a long time.
Since I'm learning that so much of what we do is governed by our perspective and what we value, here's a brief summary of what I tend to value, so you can have a sense for whether I'd be a good fit for your team.
I tend to value:
🧗♀️ Independence over mindless conformity,
🤝 Cooperation over independence,
🤔 Thoughful action over assumptions (best practices, good or bad, are assumptions),
🤷♀️ Common sense over philosophical bias (thoughfulness, however well intended, tends to lead to philosophical bias),
⛏️ Clear evidence over common sense (common sense, while a good fall back when there is no clear evidence, is limited by experience, but on the other hand clear evidence is much harder to come by than the internet, and often the classroom, would have us believe),
🗓️ Planning & process over a free for all,
📣 Communication over process,
🏋️♂️ Building over planning,
🛠️ Technology over human suffering,
❤️ Humans over technology 🧍🏻♀🧍🏿♂️👨🏼🦽💃🏽 👩🏻🦯➡️🏃🏻♂️➡️🕺🏽🧎🏾♂️➡️.
For the bottom line people—I currently work with Ruby & JavaScript for the most part. Though I've worked with most things in the mainstream and a few things that are not so mainstream. I tend to think more like a Lisp or Smalltalk programmer (these days more and more it seems, I apologize in advance 😅). I'm also comfortable with SQL, Java, Clojure and C.
Oh! and I love math, teaching & design. ❤️ to all who read this.