I’m not intimidated by legacy code. That’s just how the software industry works. There’s a lot of talk about how great one technology is over another, but I’ve dealt with truly terrible code—code that ignored best programming practices, outdated codebases that never embraced new technologies. Welcome to the real world. You attend conferences where everything seems amazing, where you see how things should be built, but once you start working, you realize that software isn’t always built the way it’s supposed to be.
That’s been my experience. I’ve worked with systems no one wants to touch because there are no tests. I’ve dealt with applications stuck on old versions of Ruby or Elixir because teams are afraid upgrading will break everything. And here I am—I’ve written tests from scratch to make things work. That’s what I’m capable of. At this point, I believe the programming language doesn’t matter as much. I enjoy diving deep into the guts of the beast and improving whatever needs fixing.
That’s it! Oh, I almost forgot—I work with Elixir/Phoenix and Postgres. :-)