User:Karey Powell

Software Engineer from Jamaica, WI. Very passionate about technology, the way it is evolving and what it has to offer. I'm a fan of Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, Java, Scala, Objective-C, and Hypermedia APIs. I mainly work with opensource tools, because of their flexibility, the power they have to offer and most importantly the community of developers that helps to build and enhance them. Also, I occasionally dabble in C# and Android to build cool stuff, but my primary area of concentration is creating Web Applications. So, I've started to venture into the deep end of various web frameworks to learn how they work and why they work the way they do and also to get a better understanding of how to create better APIs, because my aim is to contribute to a better web experience in the future.

I take pride in my work, as I like to see well built software. Most of friends call me a workaholic, but I say to them that it is pure passion for the field. Recently, I read in a post on Quora.com that "passion for something is not achieved until we have fail at it", in a sense I can agree with that statement, but I think that if you truly do something that you cannot wait to see everyday or it is always on your mind, something that you really love, then it is passion. There is this quote from a passed Computer Science lecturer of Carnegie Mellon University that goes, "Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment. If things aren’t going well it probably means you are learning a lot and things will go better later. --- Randy Pausch". I particularly like this quote, because it somehow applies to me in the sense of my work. However, with all this said, I do spend a lot of time nowadays on the things that matter most to me (family, friends, programming), because at the end of the day, if we software engineers or anyone in particular who specializes in a field neglect these things, we not only fail as a human, but we also fail at life in general.