Engineering Work for PlayStation Functionality

from Pentium 2 machine and a rural high school to becoming a Java refactoring entrepreneur, self-taught C++ in high school, officer in the U.S. Army and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, worked on Java projects at an insurance company between deployments, joined Netflix to work on engineering tools, challenges of migrating Java versions and libraries in a freedom and responsibility culture, started the OpenRewrite project at Netflix for automated refactoring and code migration, founded the micrometer metrics instrumentation project at Pivotal, challenges of introducing automated pull requests in enterprise environments, rebooted OpenRewrite while working with Gradle's Hans Dockter, founded Moderne to commercialize OpenRewrite for large-scale enterprise refactoring, the origin of the Moderne name and its Art Deco roots, OpenRewrite's Maven and Gradle plugins for refactoring and styling using a visitor pattern on an enriched AST, Moderne's enterprise offering for large-scale refactoring and impact analysis, potential integration with large language models and retrieval-augmented generation for code optimization

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