# Introducing me :)

**URL:** <https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/introducing-me/667>\
**Category:** Introductions\
**Created:** [April 15, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/introducing-me/667 "2019-04-15T15:05:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![nsuchy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c0e974/32.png) [@nsuchy](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/nsuchy)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/introducing-me/667/1 "2019-04-15T15:05:29Z")

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Hi everyone, I’m Nathaniel, currently I’m a full time student as well as a software engineer at the startup Universal Layer (we’re working on a cloud platform with managed services). I am a Rubyist however the promises of Crystal (C-like performance and static typing) have made me take the time to learn it and give the language a chance.

**What I’m working on with Crystal:**  
As a starting out project in Crystal, I’m working on a shard called CrystalProxmox ([https://github.com/ulayer/CrystalProxmox](https://github.com/ulayer/CrystalProxmox)) as part of my work for Universal Layer. We have several Proxmox Hypervisors and are considering rewriting some of our management tools into Crystal (we currently use a monolithic Ruby on Rails webapp). Figuring out how types, type restrictions, and such working was a challenge but the reward of a statically typed implementation to generate an authentication ticket and send requests was awesome. I’m excited to see what I can do next with this language.

**Goals:**  
By the end of Summer 2019, I want to have a solid grasp of the Crystal Programming Language. It’s been easy to pick up since I already know Ruby. I’ve played around a bit with the web framework Amber which looks nice.

If anyone has videos or books on Crystal they believe I should checkout please let me know and I’ll give it a look.

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**Author:** ![straight-shoota](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/straight-shoota/32/36_2.png) [@straight-shoota](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/straight-shoota)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/introducing-me/667/2 "2019-04-15T18:47:53Z")

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Welcome to the club =)