I'm Marvin.
Software Engineer. Author. Podcaster.
Software. My love for programming started in junior high school with an IBM PC XT and a spiral bound handbook for BASIC. I wrote ASCII character games and text-based adventure games. And maybe a program that prank called a neighbor on a loop. 😬
In 2003, I got reacquainted with code, starting with Classic ASP. But the debugging experience wasn't great, so I ventured into ASP.NET and C#.
Since then, I've done Angular, Vue, React on the front end. C# WebApi and Sql Server on the back end. I've spent quality time with Azure, a little Kubernetes. Lots of time building devops pipelines in Azure Devops.
And my latest adventure has been with Python and Django on Google Cloud.
I love AI. We can either be scared of it or embrace it. Fear has never served me well. I choose courage. The industry is always changing. I am always learning. That's what makes it an adventure.
The one thing that will, I believe, never change is that software is a great outlet to express creativity. I've always been a creative person, so software has been a great fit for me.
Writing. I started publishing erotic fiction in 2020 under the pen name M. L. Patterson. Later, I published two novels—what I call "filthy romance"—under the pen name Morgan Hale. I'm still writing, and I plan to eventually consolidate all my writing under the Morgan Hale pen name.
Podcasting. In 2024, I launched a the Filthy Little Secrets podcast. It's a show for sex-positive women to come on and tell their true stories.
