Checking in again - kids, new job, Golang

Its holiday season and its time to that one of those yearly posts to let the world know that I am alive and still going on.

My last checkin was in 2013 and since then, things that have transpired in life are:

• Left Cisco Meraki to join a startup in security space
• The project didnt turn out the way we wanted and we got acquihired by Aruba Networks (part of HPE)
• I am father of two kids (3.5 son and 8 months daughter at the time of writing)
• Started learning (to get an overview idea) about containers and infrastructure orchestration
• Actively started working on real life project at work which involves development in golang instead of just reading various blogs. The old saying of implementing a real life project to learn has never been more true
• With all the hype about machine learning/ai, I started on Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning course. I just think I have the right mindset for this subject. Even though the course is supposed to be for beginners and even non-maths folks, I still there is something to be said about knowing subjects like calculus to learn ML. I believe I am going to skip this career track.
• Lost my 3rd kindle to carelessness. But on the other hand, my reading habits have improved and I almost always get about 15-30 minutes of reading before going to sleep