RNG

thoughts on software development and everything else

Welcome!

My name is Ronnie Gane. I’m a young(ish) engineer and software developer from New Zealand, currently stationed in Auckland.

This is my personal playground, a place to experiment and learn.

About Me

  • Born on the cusp of the 90s in Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Grew up in a little rural town (pop 4000) called Helensville.
  • Studied both Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry at the University of Auckland. Neither of which I use in my current career, but they were fascinating and challenging.
  • Worked a couple of years as a design engineer until I decided it wasn’t for me and switched to my true passion of coding.
  • Love all sorts of areas of software engineering and programming. I’m particularly interested in security and machine learning. Probably because I love maths and algorithms.
  • When I’m not coding, you’ll probably find me playing Dota 2 or Rainbow Six: Siege with my mates.

Recent Articles

Replacing Lambda@Edge with CloudFront Functions

2022-04-18

Mid last-year AWS introduced CloudFront Functions - designed for running extra-small (sub-millisecond) operations on web requests without the overhead of a full Lambda function.

Doughnut: a Slack ice-breaker

2021-10-23

This is a project I worked on recently with my good friend James Boyce. Born out of a tool he’d been using with workmates, an open-source, very barebones version of Donut

Retroactive git history

2021-08-27

While backing up important stuff from my laptop in preparation for a fresh new OS install, I came across a folder full of Go solutions I’d written for some Hackerrank puzzles years ago.