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adsouza-bio.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ There was then a gap of a few years but I recall only playing games on the Spect
 it and bought a PC clone powered by an 8086 CPU with a pair of 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for storage - one had to hold the OS
 while the other held the application!
 Around age 9 or so I was bored and decided to read through the entire DOS manual and try out all the commands on the PC.
-While not technically programming, that was the beginning of me using computers to do someting other than just play games.
+While not technically programming, that was the beginning of me using computers to do something other than just play games.
 
 That said, I did accidentally learn one very key computing concept by playing a game. It was a silly game where you had to
 guess a randomly selected number between 1 and 100. I quickly realized that the most reliably efficient way to guess the
@@ -56,21 +56,21 @@ This time they had me doing performance optimization on a different Java codebas
 batches of data. Their biggest potential client needed the process to finish in under 3 hours, since they had to take down 
 their user-facing web-app while it ran, but they had enough data that our code was taking nearly a full day to run! As you 
 might expect, they were quite unhappy about this and refused to give us their business unless we could demonstrate that the 
-process would finish in under 3 hours. Initially I got some easy wins by simply swithcing to a new version of the Java 
+process would finish in under 3 hours. Initially I got some easy wins by simply switching to a new version of the Java 
 compiler and VM: going from JDK 1.2 to 1.3 gave us a big performance improvement for free! Then I fiddled with various 
 flags to the compiler and VM to squeeze out a surprising amount of additional performance, getting the clock time down to 
 about half of what it used to be without even touching the code itself!
 
-The next easy win was to stop allocating new string objects like it was going out of style. By using StringBuffer instead of
+The next easy win was to stop allocating new string objects like they were going out of style. By using StringBuffer instead of
 the + operator to concatenate strings, I brought the runtime down to under 9 hours. After that I spent weeks running samples 
 of the data through the code running inside JProbe and making smaller optimizations until the whole process took around 6 
-hours. By this point I had used up all the tricks I could find so they brought in a much more experienced developer to
-continue the process but he was unfamiliar with JProbe so I was able to watch and learn while helping him use JProbe. In the 
+hours (a 4X speedup). By this point I had used up all the tricks I could find so they brought in a much more experienced developer
+to continue the process but he was unfamiliar with JProbe so I was able to watch and learn while helping him use JProbe. In the 
 end we did get the runtime down to 3 hours.
 
 After this wonderful learning experience at CheckFree, I decided to return for another internship but on a different team.
 The next time I ended up just writing JSPs, which wasn't nearly as interesting. Fortunately, my fourth internship was at a 
-company called Object Technologies International (OTI) that had recently been acquired by IBM to get its hands on Eclipse.
+company called Object Technologies International (OTI) that had recently been acquired by IBM to get their hands on Eclipse.
 I got to implement the FTP and WebDAV support in Eclipse 2.x under the mentorship of a couple of very capable developers,
 learning a lot about architecting extensible systems.
 
@@ -97,11 +97,11 @@ features of the Java language and the value of an AST for performing operations
 # Industry
 
 After spending my first year on the job using Java, I switched to C++ for the next couple of years and then to C for a year.
-Then I quit my job and dabbled in using Python to build an AppEngine server, Javascript to build an HTML5 web app and Java to
+Then I quit my job and dabbled in using Python to build an AppEngine server, JavaScript to build an HTML5 web app and Java to
 build an Android app.
-I got another job where I used both C and Python for a few months and then another job where I learned Scala, which I loved.
-Scala is what finally got me to wrap my head around functional programming.
+I subsequently got another job where I used both C and Python for a few months and then yet another job where I learned Scala,
+which I loved. Scala is what finally got me to wrap my head around functional programming.
 
 Five years ago I started my current job, where I used mostly C++ with a bit of Python and Java for the first two years and
-since then it's been mostly Go with a bit of Javascript to build infrastructure and web front-ends. Go has cured me of the
+since then it's been mostly Go with a bit of JavaScript to build infrastructure and web front-ends. Go has cured me of the
 need to use inheritence for code reuse.