{"id":3727,"date":"2026-02-17T17:21:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:27:49","slug":"top-professional-accomplishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3727","title":{"rendered":"Top Professional Accomplishments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not to get maudlin, but it is fun to think about accomplishments over the years. The days are long, but the years are short, and I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve been working in software development for more than two and a half decades.<\/p>\n<p>My top professional accomplishments include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-1-4842-6074-6\">Writing a book for a known publisher<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Co-founding a startup that is still alive and kicking (5+ years after I left)<\/li>\n<li>Running my own consulting business for about 8 years, and making a decent living from it<\/li>\n<li>My time at FusionAuth; I&#8217;ve worn a bunch of different hats with real impact on the direction and culture of the company<\/li>\n<li>Presenting at marquis conferences like Identiverse<\/li>\n<li>Co-organizing the Boulder Ruby for about 5 years<\/li>\n<li>Supporting the website of one of the biggest sporting events in the world<\/li>\n<li>Keeping this tech blog running for over 20 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to get maudlin, but it is fun to think about accomplishments over the years. The days are long, but the years are short, and I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,93,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consulting","category-fusionauth","category-lifehack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3728,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}