I'm a frontend developer who enjoys translating designs into pixel-perfect websites and components. On top of that, it's a joy to create websites and tools anyone can use and enjoy. I like looking at something and saying "We did that and I was a part of it."
Lately, I've found myself doing a lot of development for growth teams. It wasn't something I knew I wanted to do until I fell headfirst into it. I enjoy helping product, marketing, and design teams increase conversion through better page performance, A/B testing, and better UI/UX patterns.
Speaking of UI/UX patterns I know it is a bit ironic that my site isn't an example of good UI/UX. This is somewhat intentional. I wanted a place where I didn't have to worry about converion rates, super-optimized readability, or any of those metrics (outside of lighthouse 100s!).
I've worked with a lot more web technologies than I'd like to admit. I've written backend code in ASP, ASP.NET, .Net, and PHP. On the frontend I started with vanilla JS and jQuery. From there, I've dabbled in Knockout and React before settling on Vue. After bouncing around I finally decided to settle on the my holy trinity: Laravel, Vue, and TailwindCSS. Despite convience of TailwindCSS, I absolutely love writing with Sass.
During my time as a dev, I've bounced between editors. I started school with Notepad++, moved to Brackets, Atom, and settled on VSCode. However, when a bug with Vetur was causing significant memory and cpu usage (crippling my laptop!) I swapped to Neovim. It needs no introduction but there's nothing better than those sweet, sweet, vim motions. As a bonus, I'm a bit more efficient when SSH'ing into servers!
While not working you can usually find me spending time with my better half, playing games, working on project cars, or doing something outdoors. I also try and maintain a healthy amount of incomplete projects (*ahem* cars) to keep myself busy when I have free time.
22 Tacoma 6MT: This is my go-to truck and daily driver. While it's mostly a grocery getter it does serve a bigger purpose. From snow travel to logging and taking us up and over mountain tops and into the wilderness.
'93 F150: This was my grandfather's farm truck. I've spent more time in this truck's bed as a kid going fishing and helping out around the farm than I have spent driving it. It's beat up and not pretty but it runs and it made the trip from OK. to CO. during the heat of summer.
'95 240sx: Arguably the worst lawn ornament I own. It doesn't run, the trunk doesn't latch, and there's a spare motor in the passenger seat. What started out as a high school project has become the "I'll get to it someday" project.