About Me
I'm a full-stack developer residing in Tucson, Arizona. I started college thinking I'd become a music teacher-- until I rediscovered my love for technology. Programming is something I'd done a bit growing up, mostly adjacent to my overall computer hobbies. But there I was in my dorm when I should have been studying music theory or practicing my instrument... spending long nights learning and trying out mobile app development ideas.
My development habits were forged in the fires of open-source, where I worked with wonderful, decentralized teams of people to build ambitious, community-focused projects. For better or worse, I picked up Windows Mobile/UWP development (RIP) and then jumped to Ember.js. Eventually, I graduated with my music degree, during which I'd started working for the university building full-stack web apps.
You could call me an early Vue adopter (I've been using it since the 1.0 days, and a proud attendee of every VueConf.US... so far!). I've also spent a lot of time building RESTful backends in Django and Flask, configured far too many CI/CD pipelines, and am a huge believer in "DivOps", component libraries, and design systems.
Work
- Frontend engineer on a platform used by over 50,000 coaches and their clients
- Primarily focused on the flagship web app which coaches use to schedule workouts, chat with clients, and monitor progress
- Frontend-focused engineer focused on delivering feature updates and bug fixes to a SaaS appliation used by thousands of businesses.
- All the duties and responsibilities of my previous position at the University of Arizona, as well as leading a team of 3 full-time developers and 3 student developers.
- Oversaw support, bug reports, and general interfacing with application users, including regular software demos and training.
- Generated documentation for new developer training, style guides, linting practices, design, component libraries, etc.
- Designed and developed in-house and publicly accessible applications and REST APIs for the Financial Services Office.
- Built a composable component framework and design framework to unify branding and share assets across our applications.
- Supported 10+ older applications of varying tech stacks, including AngularJS, jQuery, vanilla JavaScript and Django. Many projects were migrated to a more modern Vue.js-based frontend stack.
Education
- Regularly placed at the top of undergraduate students in chair placement and mock auditions
- Full-ride tuition scholarship (academic and music)
- Recipient of the Springer Grant from the Arizona Community Foundation, a 4-year grant to study music
- Magna Cum Laude - 3.8 GPA (received a 4.0 my freshman year with 43 credit-hours of course work)