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Welcome Thread - v372

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  1. Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about
    yourself.

  2. Reply to someone's comment, either with a question or just a hello. 👋

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Carlos Mario Mora Restrepo

Hey! 👋 I'm Carlos — Platform Engineer with 25+ years in infra.

These days: multi-cloud AWS/GCP, Snowflake, IaC with OpenTofu, and HIPAA/SOC2 in healthcare. I write about what actually works in production. No toy projects.

Glad to be here!

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Hey Carlos!

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Hey Carlos! Glad you are here and hope you are well! What inspired you to start Platform Engineering?

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Carlos Mario Mora Restrepo

Because OnlyFans wasn’t available at the time. Just kidding. I think it was the logical next step for me, coming from the on-premises world of servers and networking.

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

lmao threw me off there not gonna lie. Thanks for sharing btw :D

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Ella

Hi Carlos. That's some impressive experience, nice to have you around!

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FMF Games

25+? GGWP 👋

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Klaudia Grzondziel

Hi! Welcome to the platform!

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mehdi-arfaoui

Hello Carlos nice to meet you !

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Alex Lin | PipeAgent • Edited

Hey Carlos, fellow infra vet here (20 years)! Love the 'no toy projects' attitude. I'm working on the data infrastructure for AI agents right now. Looking forward to your posts!

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Sloan the DEV Moderator The DEV Team

Just wanted to say welcome to everyone new and not-so-new to DEV. 👋

Hope y'all enjoy it here!

If you're wondering how to get started with posting a post, then consider checking out this article here.

To learn more about writing on DEV, check out our Best Practices for Writing on DEV series. 😀

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Sloan is great :)

Welcome everyone!

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siyadhkc

Hello all i'm siyadh 👋🏼---I build developer tools focused on cybersecurity, automation, and recon.
Right now i'm working on tools to streamline asset discovery, subdomain enumeration, and intelligence gathering into a single workflow. The goal is simple: reduce manual recon effort and make high-signal data easier to extract.

  • I spend most of my time exploring:
  • security tooling & offensive workflows
  • automation pipelines for recon and data collection
  • developer productivity (CLI tools, scripting, system design)
  • building practical, real-world projects instead of just theory

I'll be sharing what i build, what breaks, and what i learn along the way.
Always open to contribute with people working in security, dev tools, or anything in that space.

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Hey Siyadh! Welcome to dev! Great work so far and can't wait to see what you share to the community!

What's your favorite part about cybersecurity in your opinion? It is quite an interesting field.

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Hey hey siyadh!

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Klaudia Grzondziel

Hello! Welcome to dev.to!

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Ella

Hi Siyadh 👋. Looking forward to your posts

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Katharina Rückbrodt

Hey Community 👋
I’m Katharina, a software developer, mainly C#, Clean Architecture, DDD. But to be honest, I always end up somewhere else.
Last stop: Python, graph theory and swarm intelligence.
Before that: hackathons with Wolfram Language, GeoPandas and Streamlit.
Next stop: unclear. Probably something I don’t know about yet.

On GitHub, I go by the name lady-logic.

Looking forward to the community here! 🐇

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Konark Sharma

Hi Katharina. Welcome to the community ! 😊

Made any games using C#? Any lessons that helped you win hackathons?

Have a great time here.🫡

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

I appreciate you taking the time to respond to almost everyone here as much as you could. I am almost burnt out from doing this lol

Thanks Konark! I appreciate it really! Making Richard proud :)

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Konark Sharma

Don't burnout Francis. You are a part of the community that is there to help you. I like replying to the comments. This community has always been so caring, supportive and so giving to me. I found amazing people like you.

I can't return the favor but would love to help in some way or the other. That's why I welcome everyone to this amazing community.

Don't feel burnout buddy. We are here. You can comment first and then leave the rest to me or other people sometimes. For me, it's super fun to interact with new people some are ceo, pm, 10+ years, 15+ years of experience and many more so asking them and talking to them feels amazing. Yes, making Richard proud. I can't replace him but would love to be like him and share and encourage everyone.😊

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Welcome to DEV @ladylogic!!

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Welcome to Dev @ladylogic! Hope you are well and GL on your journey :D

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AlokT

I'm Alok - I build developer tools and I'm here mostly to cross-post the writing I already publish on my own site. My current project is ClipGate, a terminal-native clipboard vault for developers that auto-classifies every copy (secrets, code, URLs, errors, diffs, JSON, shell commands…) and keeps everything in an encrypted local SQLite database with no cloud or telemetry. It also ships an MCP server so Claude Code, Cursor, and friends can query your clipboard history without leaking secrets to the model.Topics I enjoy writing about: developer productivity, security hygiene, Rust CLI ergonomics, and the surprisingly deep rabbit hole that is "what happens when you copy something." Excited to learn from this community and trade notes with folks building in the same space.Happy to connect!

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Hey Alok! Welcome to Dev! How long have you worked on ClipGate? Quite interesting and great work! Hope your journey goes well :D

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Pascal CESCATO

Hi! Interesting… Nice to see you here!

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Klaudia Grzondziel

Hello! I'd be happy to read a post about productivity! Nice to have you here! :)

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Dan E

Hey! I'm Dan,

Solo founder building developer APIs in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Currently shipping Rendex — a screenshot, PDF, and HTML rendering API that runs on Cloudflare Workers.

Excited to start writing tutorials here about browser rendering, Python automation, and building API products as a solo dev.

Happy to connect with anyone working on developer tools or building in public. 🤙

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Hey Dan! Welcome to Dev!

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TheZupZup • Edited

Hi everyone, i'm a 3 years computer technician and recently forming myself on python to continue building my ideas of open-source project that I want to build to help others

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Liam Steiner

Hey Dev.to 👋

I'm Liam, a software engineer with about five years of experience — full-stack to start, then a couple years leading an engineering team at AWS.

These days I'm studying physics at university while building a self-hosted AI assistant.
It started as a tab-switching fix and went somewhere deeper — persistent memory across sessions, a self-tuning feedback loop that scores its own responses over time, each conversation isolated in its own container.
Still going.

Looking forward to sharing things as I build them 😄

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Very impressive Liam! Welcome to Dev! What did you work on in AWS in particular?

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Liam Steiner

Hey Francis, appreciate it!
Regarding AWS - We worked on a product called "Resilience Hub", it's designed to provide cloud-infrastructure modification recommendations based on the client's specific resiliency goals (The concept of "resilience" in cloud infrastructure is focusing on cases where AWS servers are down for some reason, in different scales - Software, Hardware, Availability Zones, Regions).
Goals could be either "How long am I ok with AWS's servers down, until I act", and "How much 'data-time' I'm okay with losing, if at all".

That's the tip-of-the-iceberg summary 😅

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Konark Sharma

Hi Liam. Welcome to the community ! 😊

Name three laws of motion😂. Any theory you read or studied that you fallen in love with?

All the best for your project. Have a great time here.🫡

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Liam Steiner

Thanks!
Three laws of motion as of Newton's? because there are a lot more than that 😜
Personally - Special Relativity is my favorite, at least as of now 😃

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Konark Sharma

Yes there could. I just touched physics got confused with so many theories and symbols.

Cool Special Relativity. Do you believe in Blackhole or a 4th Dimension?

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Liam Steiner

100%.
There are already actual, real pictures by Webb-James telescope of a blackhole, which is kinda crazy.
I highly recommend watching Interstellar if you didn't see it yet, one crazy movie.

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Konark Sharma

Silly of me. Now that you have mentioned I remember seeing the blackhole images myself. I have seen the movie. That's why I asked do you believe in the physics that movie gave. A 4th dimension far away from time and space.

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Liam Steiner

Well, you know, it's still a movie so it has its imaginary parts.
For example, you'll probably die way before you reach the black hole's horizon, so the physics in the movie could not possibly be real.
BUT - still a great movie IMO 😄

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Great to have everyone! You're highly encouraged to find a post you found helpful and leave a comment to the author!

Do it a few times to show your appreciation.

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Ryan Eade

Hi all - I'm somewhat new to the platform. I've worked in startups and software companies for my entire career, currently building platforms with more emphasis on AI driven flows and the move towards "dark factories". I've been writing on other platforms for a while, and followed a few links for great reads here, and decided to start publishing on here as well.

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Welcome Ryan! Hope you are well! Any plans on a specific topic you want to publish here (AI related articles or just all around?)

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Klaudia Grzondziel

Hello! Didn't know about dark factories. Happy to learn something new, thank you! :)

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