> print("Hello, awesome human being!");
Hello, awesome human being!

It’s a mystery on how you found your way here, but welcome to my blog!

My first post will be a short one. I simply want to express the reasons why I finally decided to create one and to let you know what to expect from me in the future.

Motivations

Improve my writing skills

Writing blogs should be similar to writing clean code, right?

You have concepts and principles that will guide you on your writing such as:

• Focus on readability
• Mean what you say, say what you mean.
• You ain’t gonna need it (YAGNI)
• Keep It Simple, Stupid (KISS)

Similar to how coding improves your coding skills, the best way to improve your writing skills is to write.

Become a Senior Engineer

/slight sarcasm

I know this doesn’t entirely make sense, but apparently there are job descriptions for Senior Security Engineer position that looks for "Contribution to the security community".

Writing blogs seems to be a rite of passage to claim this position in the future.

Giving back

Since I first wrote my Hello World program back in 2010, I have consistently been using StackOverflow and other people’s blogs as reference. I consider this as another opportunity to give back to the community.

What to expect

My blog will cover topics about Software Engineering, Information Security, or Site Reliability Engineering.

The reason is that the work I usually do as a Security Engineer for the Platform Team @ Lendi.com generally fall into at least one of those three areas.

Lastly, I hope you find value on the things I write.