
About
I'm an experienced software engineer who loves building web and mobile applications. I'm diving deep lately into SwiftUI for fun but work mostly in React, Next.js, and Node in my projects.
Education
researched social issues in technology, performed user research + learned user-centered design and honed my ability to execute engaging user experiences
creative engineering, film & print design + computer science
Work Experience
Consulting for the web platform and leading JavaScript projects
Angular + Ionic, Node + Express, Postgres + SQL
R&D using Angular, Ionic, CouchDB and many more web technologies
Built some custom modules for an ERP using a Node SOAP client + low-level C-like scripting language, lead R&D using ASP.net MVVM and dotnet core, mentored and coached + helped the team to stay organized and coordinated with stakeholders
Ruby on Rails + Postgres, Sidekiq for asynchronous work, lots of RSpec testing, wrote a few open source framework plugins in PHP
Node + Ruby on Rails & Android, R&D using home security panels and wireless technologies to engineer new ways to help disabled and elderly people live at home more comfortably and independently
Early in my career while in college I helped many people with technology as an IT generalist. I fixed computers, game consoles, and setup networks with physical servers. As I got better at understanding security and systems, I offered consulting and managed IT services to businesses. I did network administration for a small legal office, a psychologist, and finally a healthcare provider before deciding to learn Ruby on Rails which kicked off my career as a software engineer. I built lots of websites and architected solutions for small retail stores in Wordpress in the past and miss PHP. Occassionally, I would design something creative using tools like Processing.js, Maya, MaxMSP, and I did some Minecraft modding to learn Java.
Motivated people around me to hit sales goals and lead by example in customer service
I fixed computers and consulted with a hugely diverse set of people about technology
Installed, configured, & serviced both commerical and residential satellite Internet hardware
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Side Projects
Self-guided logging of your fantasy adventures using Next.js and React
A mobile application for helping caregivers track requests and medical conditions using SwiftUI and Vapor for the backend
Web scraper using Puppeteer to find vaccine appointments at some pharmacies
Develop an understanding of how people locate parking
in environments where parking spots are scarce
Worked with an industrial designer to come up with a design and then coded a 2D prototype of an Internet connected coffee grinder, used Heroku as a PaaS for the Ruby on Rails backend
Projects
Ruby on Rails backend with a PHP + jQuery front-end client + Stripe for subscriptions and Twilio for email
Used Express, Node & TypeScript to deliver a key integegration that provided financial and identity information to client partners.
Designed a mobile app to track mood using user-centered design principles, built a prototype in JavaScript and did user research
CodeIgniter PHP backend with a client written using bootstrap + data visualization using JavaScript
Writing
I researched and prototyped GraphQL APIs in many languages to compare how they are architected versus REST APIs.
Helped co-author some research on how web application frameworks may be applied to help scientists.