I tried to simplify PCI DSS compliance by creating a tokenizer solution. As a result I built open source forward/revers proxy that on the fly replaces sensitive data in http(s) requests and responses: https://github.com/vaulty-co/vaulty and docs here: https://docs.vaulty.co/ (with some cookbooks).
I hoped some day to make a business from it :)
Even if I was not able to find any users/customers, I learned a lot: proxies, Golang (encryption, networking, parsing), etc. I started writing it using Ruby, but accidentally got a chance to write in Go for few weeks... and I fell in love with Golang. After 10+ years of Ruby/Rails I thought I'm done as a programmer. But with Go I felt that I love writing code again :)
Building Vaulty was also useful when I wanted to contact some security/fintech company.
This is how I decided to join https://moov.io as SW engineer and continue my journey with Go lang (and fintech and security).
I hoped some day to make a business from it :)
Even if I was not able to find any users/customers, I learned a lot: proxies, Golang (encryption, networking, parsing), etc. I started writing it using Ruby, but accidentally got a chance to write in Go for few weeks... and I fell in love with Golang. After 10+ years of Ruby/Rails I thought I'm done as a programmer. But with Go I felt that I love writing code again :)
Building Vaulty was also useful when I wanted to contact some security/fintech company.
This is how I decided to join https://moov.io as SW engineer and continue my journey with Go lang (and fintech and security).