- I break things until they work
- I overengineer stuff until stuff is simple
- I make tools to make life easier for my nerd friends.1
- I present these tools at local meetups to my nerd friends.2
- Sometimes I wake up and find myself leading software development lifecycles.
- In these situations, I inevitably have opinions about the existing codebase.
- I volunteer to fix everything myself by changing the whole stack.
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- I learn the value of teamwork. That counts as profit.3
- Rinse and repeat.
- Senior year of university, I stumbled into working with an AlphaLab-funded startup.
- Actually, I just did the music for their app.
- I have an undertapped network.
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Node.js, Express, React, SQL, MongoDB, TypeScript, Git & Version Control, REST API, GraphQL, Next.js, Prisma, Mongoose, Jest, Jira, Figma, Bootstrap, Material UI, Tailwind CSS, OOP, Agile, Accessibility, Docker, Cloud Platforms, and other stuff too.
Stuff I make4
- Ecohz - providing a funding solution for underserved climate projects (WeHaventLaunchedYet)
- SongStrudel - doubling music production productivity. (Repo)
- PartyRoomBloom - planning engaging tabletop gaming sessions. (Repo)
- C Flat Run - getting this a cappella group more bookings. (Repo)
- Nick B. Schatzki - making my brother a famous voice artist (shameless plug he's really good). (Repo)
- Top Secret - wrangling an old React package because it did what this secretive client wanted. (ImUnderAnNda)
- LA Epic Club Crawls - persuading the owners to let me rebuild their site that I did my darndest to optimize.
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Footnotes
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By nerd friends, I mean tabletop roleplaying nerds and music theory nerds who don't rate pop music because it's too diatonic. ↩
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This time, the term "nerd friends" refers to fellow tech people. I am excellent at naming things. ↩
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See Underpants Gnomes. ↩
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The word cloud for this bio is just the word STUFF. ↩