About me
I'm a software engineer from Pittsburgh, currently working at PlexTrac. I care about making simple workflows that match the cognitive flow of real humans.
For fun, you can usually find me snapping photos with my Nikon, scuba diving, reading something by Brandon Sanderson, or drawing on Procreate.
Hire me for:
HTML & CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, Express.js, React, React Router & Remix, Redux, TypeScript, Frontend architecture, user interface design, wireframing, unit testing with React Testing Library and Jest
Learning:
AI programming with Python, Anaconda & Jupyter Notebooks, Pandas, Numpy, & Matplotlib, Postgres, Figma
Prior experience:
Angular.js, AWS, PHP, Symfony, Java, MySQL, MongoDB, Java, Cypress
In late 2020, I ran a Lighthouse test on a simple content page on Harvie, a farm management platform and Symfony app, and received a performance score of 31/100. The JavaScript bundle, the API requests, the database lookups, even with minimal UI to render, had a baseline score in the thirties! Along with customer feedback, this helped to catalyze a renewed commitment to performance at Harvie. Read more or see the slides.
I also gave this talk to the EU conference that same year.
Education
Udacity - Nanodegree AI Programming with Python
Completed in 2024
University of Pittsburgh - M.S. Information Science
2017-2019
Washington & Jefferson College - B.A. Computing & Information Studies
2010-2014