I believe software is art, software can change the world, and great software is worth making.

History and experience

Today I design, build, and maintain complex systems. I began developing software, however, as a student in college for the newly released iPhone SDK. I am a self-taught software developer. Before learning to program I climbed on computers as a kid. My earliest memories include my dad teaching me BASIC–nothing complex, just a BEEP and a few GOTO's.

My first projects were simple iPhone Apps in college. They stored data locally and this lead me to think: How can they communicate? This question would later lead me into learning to program PHP and build LAMP-stack webapps. Following graduation, I became Director of Technology for a financial company in Tallahassee, FL.

Not favoring the IT admin side of technology I left to co-found a startup: Opphub. As the technical co-founder I was responsible for building and shipping our offering–which was a searchable database of opportunities for students.

I left Opphub and took a position as Application Developer at Auto Data Direct. Here I learned jQuery UI widgets, Java, and Tomcat. After a year of learning the stack I was promoted to Technical Team Lead of the TOW123 product and made Senior Software Engineer. As lead I was responsible for sprint planning, PRs, technical planning, and feature implementation.

One major push we made on the TOW123 team was a new mobile application. This new mobile App was quickly developed using the agile approach to software development shipping a minimum viable product quickly and new features on a regular basis. TOW123 was pulled from the market in the summer of 2017 and I moved into an internal modernization project.

In January 2019 I left Auto Data Direct and joined Kikoda as a Senior Software Developer. I am currently working as technical lead on projects responsible for application and system architecture.

Motivation

Learning–I am always seeking out new opportunities to learn.

Creating cool things–the more exciting the better!

Interests

Currently I am excited about DevOps (being a developer and running the software I work to create). Specifically new technologies like:

In addition to DevOps I enjoy learning new programming languages: