<p>Hello, my name is Joe Williams and welcome to my website! please check the source code <a href="https://github.com/BubbaJoe/bubbajoe.dev">here</a>.</p>
<h3>About me</h3>
<p>I am a Software Engineer currently living in Japan. I have been working in the software industry and living in Japan for around ~{{YOE}} years.</p>
<p>I have worked on many personal and work projects including: Back-end APIs in Node/Rust/Go to Data Pipelines using AirByte/Cloudquery/Debezium to Front-end using React/NextJS.</p>
<p>Please check out my <a href="/projects">projects</a> page for more information.</p>
<h3>Interests</h3>
<p>I am usually interested in most technologies I work with, especially if it's backend, but the following are the ones that I have been recently interested in:</p>
<ul>
<li>Data Engineering (Data Pipelines, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Data Streaming, <a href="/projects/dataqueen">DataQueen</a>)</li>
<li>Data Storage (BadgerDB, Object Storage, Vector DB)</li>
<li>API Gateways/LB (Kong, NGINX, <a href="/projects/dgate">DGate (by me)</a>, etc.)</li>
<li>Dev-ops (Github Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Terraform.)</li>
<li>Ditributed Systems &amp; Consensus (Raft, Paxos, Tempo, etc.)</li>
<li>Video Engineering (Video Streaming, Video Transcoding, Video Analytics)</li>
<li>(RTMP, HLS, WebRTC, <a href="/projects/autostream-live">Autostream.Live</a>)</li>
<li>AI/ML (Recommender Systems, Online Learning, Time Series Analysis).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Hobbies</h3>
<ul>
<li>3D Printing (I have a Prusa SL1S)</li>
<li>Video Games (Apex Legends, Rocket League, Overwatch 2)</li>
<li>Drama (Rick and Morty, The Boys, Breaking Bad, etc.)</li>
<li>Music (Rap/Hip-hop, Lofi, etc.)</li>
<li>Eating &amp; Cooking Food!</li>
</ul>
