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In my day job, I am a consultant in SmartGrid technologies for power utilities.

I started my career as a software engineer many decades ago when none of the fancy frameworks, languages and tools existed. Using a single board computer with 128K of ROM and 64K of RAM was more common. I developed a solid expertise in real-time control systems to manage powergrids and over time, became a consultant to power utilities.

As a sideline, by night (many, many nights), I have developed enofily which is a website and mobile app for wine critics and wine lovers to organize their tasting notes.

The side-effect of this was that I rediscovered how much writing software is fun. The biggest challenge was to learn the latest technologies. There is still a lot to learn.

I am using the Zend Framework for the enofily website and React Native for the mobile app. It is backed by a MySQL database. The website frontend is using AngularJs but I will be moving to React to maintain a common code base with the mobile app.

Overtime, I have developed a good knowledge of:

  • PHP
  • Javascript
  • Laminas Framework for the site
  • Apigility for the api
  • MySQL
  • Apache
  • React
  • React Native
  • AngularJS
  • Webpack
  • Babel
  • and a bunch of antiquated stuff like assembler, C, Fortran, Pascal, VMS, Unix (yep, I am that old...)

I am opened to contract based software development engagement. Drop me an email at eric.richer@vistoconsulting.com.