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Life in Bali at the Apple Developer Academy

Dear Friends,

After I moved to Singapore to join my wife, I set out to adjust my career trajectory and get back to building instead of herding cats.

Over the last two years I’ve transitioned from:

• Hong Kong/Shenzhen (25 years) -> Singapore -> Bali

• Single -> Husband

• Project Manager -> AI Engineer on Apple Platforms

• Corporate -> Startups (again)

• Managing teams of 30 people -> Individual Contributor

• Building websites -> Building apps

If we haven’t talked in a while, I went from Software Engineer (ewatchfactory) -> Startup Founder -> Web Development Manager (CNN) -> Public Website Lead (HSBC) -> Senior Product Manager (DFS) -> Startup Exit -> Senior Project Manager (AIA) and lastly a successful 13TB Azure cloud migration.

For the last 6 months I’ve been building in Bali at the Apple Developer Academy on a journey to become a world-class Apple Developer.

Awesomesauce 🥫 is how I would describe the projects I’ve been part of, multiple projects from top teams that are Apple App Store worthy. Over the coming weeks I’ll be writing about them as I build in public.

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New Web Homepage

One of the first things I did with the Swift programming language was redesign my personal website & portfolio in Swift using a static site generator I forked. I still believe it is advantageous to have a central home on the Internet.

Keep up with my writings and my “now page” to see what I’m thinking and building:

https://deverman.org

P.S. I’m in Bali until mid-December. You definitely need a vacation, come and hangout together on the beach. 🏖️ Respond to this email to plan your vacation.

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