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I'm a tech tinker, systems thinker, and creative technologist who has experimented a lot and now wants to join an existing company to grow and co-create bigger things. I still have much to learn, and desire to make greater impact expeditiously. I blend broad technical understanding with deep obsession, emotional intelligence, and a lifelong passion for understanding & solving problems.

My background spans enterprise consulting, developer education, community organizing, and creative tech. I've led nonprofit web revamps, built community platforms from scratch, co-founded & managed student organizations (including my university's first hackathon, RAMHacks, 2014-2016), hosted dozens of webinars and interviews, and organized interdisciplinary symposia.

I've recently been advising an early-stage startup and supporting small-org clients, while further developing my technical skills and prototyping several ambitious apps. I took a long sabbatical during the COVID-19 pandemic for health and exploration, while helping some small organizatons at-cost.

🔭 what i'm looking for

Senior Developer Relations Engineer or Senior Full-Stack Engineer
On-site/hybrid in NYC, Richmond VA, Cincinnati OH, Austin TX, or somewhere new!
Good, energetic, mission-aligned teams where I can contribute both code and knowledge-sharing
Bonus: regenerative tech, education, social impact, public-good, etc.

🧬 skills n tools

Languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, C#, SQL, PHP, Lua, learning Python
Frameworks: React, Next.js, Astro, Angular, Vue, Spring Boot, .NET, Ionic, Android, iOS, Unity3D
UI: Tailwind CSS, Radix/Shadcn, Framer Motion, GSAP, Material UI, Bootstrap, SCSS
Platforms & CMS: Wordpress, Webflow, Shopify, Stripe, Bloomreach CMS, Contentful and other headless CMS, Ethereum/Polygon, Solana
Data & Auth: PostgreSQL, Drizzle / Prisma, MongoDB, Supabase, NextAuth, OAuth, JWT
Infra: AWS, Vercel, Railway, Netlify, Supabase, Neon, Jenkins, Docker, learning Temporal
Testing: Jest/Vitest, Playwright, Cypress,, JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, Postman
Dev Tools: VSCode/Cursor, npm/pnpm/Yarn/Bun, Vite, Webpack/Turbopack, Zod, Postman
AI Tools: OpenAI, Structify, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini, Grok, Lovable, v0, MagicPath, MagicPatterns, Midjourney, Leonardo, Kapwing
Other Tools: Trello, Notion, Figma, Canva, Excalidraw, Prezi & slideshow software, spreadsheet software, various photo & video editors, Brain.fm for focus
Accessibility & compliance: WCAG, ARIA, ADA, GDPR, HIPAA

Other skills: self-reflexivity, endless curiosity, professional etiquette (e.g. representing company at networking events), presentation, articulation, intuition, emotional regulation, going with the flow, discernment (slop/bs detector), cooking, filtering for the best grocery deals, archery, and some other stuff

Projects/Life Rant

i started coding in middle school ~2007 with myspace HTML+CSS layouts, if you could call it that. i went on to learn in class in high school, and took it from there on my own. i competed in coding & game-making competitions, founded multiple clubs, taught & tutored, participated in & managed hackathons, even made a lot of spreadsheets to min-max video games with my guilds.

i have all sorts of projects tucked away on hard drives, online repos, long forgotten websites, or in forever lost videos & streams. i also did a lot of work through my enterprise consulting jobs, most of which is not saved to share and half of which was less creative, architecture & operations type of stuff. I frankly spent a lot of my other time minmaxing my life for fun, friends, events, random life adventures, and lots of games--most of which i'm honestly proud of and grateful for.

i've always had a hyperactive imagination since as long as i can remember, filling notebooks with ideas of games, mods, apps, systems, educational & societal changes--a lot emerging nowadays, like particular kinds of online learning paradigms, new voting systems like liquid voting, AI for graphic & idea generation, AI for driving, and more. maybe because of video games, my deep interest in history & fantasy, and parents encouraging my expression.

i do woe about the overwhelming number of ideas i never manifested. it was never a high priority for me, for whatever reasons. i had lots of opportunities early, from minecraft mods & servers to bitcoin to Big Tech jobs to game industry jobs to web3 industry jobs. i worked local, and was near friends and girlfriends. i was happy. i did also spend a very high number of hours learning & deeply researching all things related to geopolitics, from 2008 era onward, out of a since-9/11 concern of what wild world i'm growing up in??

tl;dr i want to craft, i want to be a positive influence in the world, and i want to enjoy my short life. meanwhile, ill keep improving & doing my best.

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