For the longest time, I have been wanting to change my GitHub account name. I started my coding career as a data scientist. I picked up artidataio handle which originates from Bahasa Indonesia which translates to "the meaning of data".
Throughout that period, I work on big data projects such as my personal side project routing engine. I was in my early 20s learning Statistics, I barely knew Git and GitHub. But I knew that the CompSci kids were using GitHub for software development.
My project handles a lot of data (GBs of csv files).
As my scripts transforming data for further analysis, I accidentally staged the data changes.
I didn't even know what staging means.
But I knew that I wasted so much time from hung session and Windows blue screen.
In the hindsight, I learned the importance of .gitignore.
Besides, artidataio wasn't supposed to be my name. Back then I had a plan of making a data visualization startup, and artidataio was supposed to be its name. The plan was to make a Tableau killer. While Tableau focused on exploring data with visualization, artidataio was supposed to simply fit your data to the ready made visualization. My prototype was the Choropleth Map app. It had users but I had to move on to other projects.
Overtime, my interest divert. I became what the industry labelled as fullstack developer. The reason is simply because there were more opportunities there than data scientist. My notable project during this period is an SAAS reporting platform Middleboard and a company website southeastislands.
I realize that the name artidataio is limiting on what I aspire to be. Don't get me wrong, it's a pretty cool company name. But for my own username Deen is much better, no meaning and more generic. The new name Deen24ID is using part of my real name Deen and my favorite number 24.
However, as there are many projects associated to that account and things can get broken when you change your github name. I decided to do my future coding projects on a new account https://github.com/deen24id, while maintaining old project on the old account https://github.com/artidataio.