Welcome to my blog One More Robot Learns to See
(a play on The Flaming Lips - One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21 and Computer Vision the topic of my Masters)

I started this site while finishing Grad school at Queen’s University to serve as a portfolio and make myself appear employable. It worked out and I landed a pretty sweet job as a Software Developer at Shopify. I worked there for 4 and a quarter years during a period of rapid growth for the company (400 to 4000 employees) including the IPO. After Shopify I took some time off to travel and became a Nomad for 14 months (https://kevinandsam.travel). Since then I worked at Clio as a Staff Developer and now Aiven as a Senior SRE. I’ve kept the blog going as a way to document and share my thoughts, learnings and side projects although I write a lot less often than I used to.

I’m still passionate about software; it’s my job and a hobby. I like figuring stuff out, fixing things and tinkering. When I can I enjoy spending time working on side projects and learning new things. These days I’m finding myself tapping into my mechanical engineering degree more in some home engineering projects.