Hi, I'm Devon.
I'm a solutions architect interested in application integration, data engineering, event-driven architecture, and software design. I live in Lorain, Ohio with my wife Chrissie and our dog Banjo. We're the proud parents of Nick and Leilani.
I grew up in Cincinnati where I had the incredible good luck to attend the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA). I studied Music Education at Ohio State and still love to write and arrange music when I get time, although my few pro credits are long behind me.
Random Bits
- I love to learn. I always have a book in my hands or a podcast in my earbuds.
- When I was a kid, my dream jobs were typist, animator, astronaut, ILM special effects artist, and film music composer. If my 7-year-old self could see me now, spending 90% of my day typing, he would be ecstatic.
- My favorite non-fiction book is A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
- My name is pronounced DEH-vin bee-AIR.
Contact / Follow
Github - dbiere | |
LinkedIn - Devon Biere | |
Medium - @dbiere | |
Bluesky - @dbiere.com |
What's Up?
- Recently composed my first orchestral piece (Adventures with Boo) as a college graduation gift for my daughter.
- Wrote my first original choral piece (Come to Me) since college.
- Completed my B.S. of Data Management/Data Analytics at WGU in June 2021.
- Diving back into Python and Django. The source code for this site is shared on Github.
- Recently read...
- On Freedom by Timothy Snyder (2024)
- The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li (2023)
- Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen by Brian Raftery (2019)
- Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer (2024)
- The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2024)
- Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Neal Ford, Mark Richards (2020)
- More...
- Recently watched...
- Wicked (2024)
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
- Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)
- Music by John Williams (2024)
- The Wild Robot (2024)
- Black Dynamite (2009)
- More...