Hey! My name is Tray, though you may have seen me on other platforms as “Shifty the Dev”.

I currently work as a Platform Engineer, but love learning about new things. In fact, the whole point of this website was for me to document various projects and experiments I learn from. Mostly because:

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. - Adam Savage

If you happen to enjoy any of the content I post here, or have any questions/suggestions/hateful insults I’d love to hear them! (maybe not the latter)

Feel free to contact me at shiftythedevbusiness@gmail.com

FAQs

Where did the name “Shifty” come from?

Like all important life decisions, I made this in middle school. It comes from an auto-generated Xbox Live username “ShiftyCow” that I eventually shortened and decided to use as an alias across various creative platforms.

How did you learn software development?

After high school I went to Boise State University and got a Bachelor’s in Computer Science. However, some of the smartest people I’ve worked with haven’t gone this route. I genuinely think the most important thing is having a passion for always learning new things.

How long have you been programming?

The first coding experience I can remember was in 8th grade learning Scratch and how to program as Raspberry Pi with C++. In high school I took another “Intro to Programming” class that covered basic concepts in Processing and even web development in HTML, CSS, and JS.

In 2016 I graduated high school, then in 2020 I graduated from college (just in time for Covid to cancel my classes). I landed an intership with a local software company during my last semester, got a Software Engineer offer from them when I graduated, and have been working there ever since.