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+## Tech Talk
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+- **My Favorite software Tool**
+  - Nx
+- **Badass Developers**
+  - **Simon Bohlin**
+  - **Ryan Chambers**
+  - **Mike Yuan**
+- **Why Do this**
+  - Doing this for you just as much as it is for me.
+- **Who am I?**
+  - **Background**
+    - Harry Liu, software developer from Toronto, Canada.
+    - 2013 - 2017 - Studied Civil Engineering and worked.
+    - 2018 - 2019 - Self studied software engineering.
+    - 2019 - 2023 - Software consultant for CAPCO.
+    - 2022 - Meet Kristina.
+    - 2023 - 2024 - Career break.
+    - 2024 - 2025 - Software consultant for Tretton37.
+    - present - Software consultant for ELVA11.
+    - **Anecdotes**
+      - Realized the industry was not for me and was eventually forced to quit after having my license suspended driving to a site.
+      - Self studied software engineering 2017-2019 Why? Because I was pretty damn good in highschool and uni.
+      - Was definitely a subject that I really enjoyed but did not realize could be a career.
+      - Meant to switch in University but terrible at taking proactive decisions for the distant future.
+- **Flexibility**
+  - Nice to work on code with NO consequences
+  - Liberty to code how you want and able to choose the technologies that you enjoy using or want to learn
+- **Internal Projects**
+  - **Employee Handler**
+    - **Tretton**
+      - Leet Signatures
+      - Growing Scope
+        - GDPR
+        - Intergration between different systems. Google Workspace, AlexisHR, Cinode..
+        - Creating Reports
+      - What I learned:
+        - Refactoring a JS project to TS.
+        - Documentation
+        - Error Logging
+        - Handling Data flows
+    - **Bankruptcy**
+      - How not to name things
+      - How to refactor tightly coupled code so that it can be reused at another company.
+    - **ELVA11**
+      - Absence Calendar Syncs
+      - Natnok
+      - Eliminator
+- **What I learned/Why I like internal work:**
+  - Being a badass like Simon Bohlin
+  - Being a consultant on project or off.
+  - Freedom to code how you like
+    - Exercise coding and being able to write it at a leisurely pace.
+    - Choosing your own stack and learning the technologies you want to learn.
+    - Able to perform under little to no pressure or stress, setting your own expectations and deadlines.
+  - Learning
+    - Learning code in whatever direction you like
+    - Beauty of simple interfaces/contracts
+    - How to architect code implementations
+    - Building R&D skills
+- **What a consultant means to me**
+  - Solving problems with the tools and resources you have at hand.
+- **Give thanks**
+
+  - Inspiring/awesome coworkers.
+  - Environment to write the code I enjoy writing.
+
+- Sustainability
+  - Agnostic
+  - Reusable.
+  - Simple implementation.