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Learn more about topics I care about or that I'm currently working on. Ranging from software and infrastructure engineering, entrepreneurship, books, and reviews.
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Learn more about topics I care about or that I'm currently working on. Ranging from software and infrastructure engineering, entrepreneurship, books, and reviews.
© 2018. All rights reserved.
My name is Anthony Powles, but I’ve been carrying the nickname YoGiN for over 20 years now. At this point, most of my friends and co-workers call me either Yogin, Yogs, or Anthony.
I was born and raised in France from british parents. I grew up traveling/camping around Europe with my family and visiting our extended family in England.
As a kid growing up in the 80’s, I saw computers and electronics slowly coming into our house. My first gaming console was a Sega Master System. My first computer was an Amiga 500 from Commodore. My first PC was an 80286. I spent hours and days playing, tweaking, and breaking them.
As a teenager in the 90’s, I spent all the money I could save up on new parts for my PC. Sound cards (Gravis Ultrasound), graphic cards (3dfx Voodoo), DVD burners, CPUs, memory, etc… and spent most of my time on IRC in various demoscene channels, traveling around France and Europe with my huge computer, to attend parties. Learning about Linux, and coding in Turbo Pascal, C and Assembly (x86, 6809). My nickname YoGiN was what I was going by in the demoscene, and it has stuck with me ever since.
I started my professional career in 2000 and I’ve mostly worked for startups where I could make the best use of my wide range of skills in system and web development and infrastructure (bare metal and cloud). I consider myself a backend software engineer with solid systems and infrastructure knowledge.
After working a few years in Paris, I decided to move to The Hague in The Netherlands in 2008. A year and half later, I moved to Amsterdam. By mid 2011, I moved to Hanoi, Vietnam and my mid 2012, I finally moved to San Francisco, California.
Here are some of the projects I’ve worked on:
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