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visitor@joel-hanson:~$ whoami
Software Engineer @ IBM
Building event-driven systems, streaming platforms, and distributed tooling.
visitor@joel-hanson:~$ cat about.md
I’m Joel Hanson, a software engineer working across event streams,
cloud infrastructure, and practical AI/ML systems.
My work spans Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kubernetes, Python,
Java, and platform-focused developer tooling.
visitor@joel-hanson:~$ ls pinned/
advanced-serializer-usage
markdown2medium
contextlayer
joel-hanson.github.io
sse-kafka-connector
bijou64
visitor@joel-hanson:~$ head -n2 pinned/bijou64/README.md
Bijou64 - Efficient Variable-Length Integer Encoding for Kafka
Written in Java.
visitor@joel-hanson:~$ head -n2 pinned/sse-kafka-connector/README.md
A fully generic Kafka Connect source connector
for Server-Sent Events (SSE) streams.
visitor@joel-hanson:~$ ./skills --focus
Kafka · Kafka Connect · Kubernetes · Python · Java · Distributed Systems
visitor@joel-hanson:~$ tail -f writing.log- Foldmark: A Simple Printable Bookmark Maker That Turns Your Ideas Into Foldable PDFs
- I Built an MCP Travel Planner That Gives ChatGPT, Claude & Cursor Shared Context
- The Connector That Kept Retrying and Never Said So
- What If Your Kafka Sent Half the Data Over the Network?
- Aesthetic Habit Tracker: A Challenge Grid That Lives in Your Browser
visitor@joel-hanson:~$ cat contact.txtvisitor@joel-hanson:~$ echo "open to collaborating on Kafka, Kubernetes, and distributed systems"
open to collaborating on Kafka, Kubernetes, and distributed systems
visitor@joel-hanson:~$ █