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Dean Lofts

Hi, my name is Dean, but I go by Loftwah online. Although I have worked in tech and IT, I have not received formal training in coding and recently taught myself.

I am passionate about AI, AWS, DevOps, DevRel, Ruby, Rust, and Terraform. In my free time, I enjoy producing hip hop music and spending time with my 12-year-old daughter.

I recently became an ambassador for the popular open source community EddieHub and its project LinkFree (an open source alternative to LinkTree). I also participated in hackathons and co-hosted my first Twitter space, which had over 1300 attendees. I am currently writing a book called "Linux for Pirates!" to help new individuals in the industry get started.

I love everything technology-related and am always open to asynchronous communication. My preferred work hours are in the afternoon and evening, and I may need to pause my music during voice calls. I have contributed to various open source projects, including Appwrite, EddieHub, LinkFree, NASA, Nocodb, Streamlabs, and WordPress. My preferred programming language is Rust (aside from Bash).

With a diverse background, including experiences in the defence force, defence industry, mining, oil and gas, ISPs, and SaaS, I hope to bring valuable experience to the education industry. My DMs are always open, and I look forward to working with everyone here.

I can be described as somebody who is confident, friendly, informal and optimistic. 😎

To learn more about what I'm probably like, my personality type is ISTP-A. You can also take your own test here.

Speaks: English

Highest WPM: 120wpm

Note Tests conducted on Monkeytype

My Links

BTSMF.link | EddieHub LinkFree | Lofts.sh | Spotify | Twitter | YouTube

Books I Like

Long Walk to Freedom, Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire, The Rose That Grew from Concrete (poetry collection), The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of War, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Think and Grow Rich and Zero Day.

My Interests

Arcade Games, Beat Making, Card Games, Coding, Comedy, Computers, Gaming, Music Production, Reading, Running, Sleeping, Swimming, Trivia and Writing.

Favourite Uses

Appwrite, AWS, Cloudflare, GitHub, Google Workspace, Grammarly, Linux, MacOS, Ruby, Rust, Slack, Terraform, Ubuntu and VSCode.

Quotes I Like

• "Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke
• "Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls." - Kevin Mitnick
• "People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world." - Richard Stallman
• “The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” - Sydney Harris
• "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." - Napoleon Hill
• "It doesn't matter what you know, what matters is when you know” - Kathy Sierra
• "Technology frightens me to death. It’s designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.” - John Cleese
• "Software is like sex; it's better when it's free." - Linus Torvalds
• "The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways." - Robert Greene
• "I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers." - Tupac Shakur
• “A hacker is someone trying to figure out a way to make toast with a coffee maker” - Wau Holland
• “Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.” - Aaron Swartz
• "I always felt that I had to work harder than the next guy, just to do as well as the next guy. And to do better than the next guy, I had to just kill. And you know, to a certain extent, that's still with me in how I work, you know. I just... go in." - Jimmy Iovine
• “I know the dark things that people have intentions for when it comes to using information nefariously and I do my best to interrupt that and I’m going to continue to. I’m not afraid of anybody and If I’m called to take care of that its game over for that person or group.” - Gummo
• "Silence is a source of great strength." - Lao Tzu
• "If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions." - Colonel Goodhead