My Work
MinTID
An app that uses generative AI to create complex exam questions about any topic. Was originally built for E2E testing, but had a myriad of potential use cases. Built with React, TypeScript, and Claude 3 Opus.
Hummingbird
An exam creation tool and custom-tailored content management system for bespoke test questions created in-app. Built with React, Node.js, TypeScript, and DynamoDB, with a serverless backend.
VoC
Gathered recent reviews from multiple sources, ran them through sentiment analysis, and provided a dashboard of trends. Built with React, Node.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, and Amazon Comprehend.
User Journey
Using Scala Spark to analyze billions of records and determine the most common discrete paths users were taking in our apps, I built an interactive Sankey diagram in React to distill the insights.
Prism
A suite of tools designed to glean insights from billions of rows of analytics data, daily. Built with React, Node.js, Elastic Beanstalk, Scala, GraphQL, Elastic Search, and MongoDB.
Mike Johnston
Mike Johnston was running for Governor of Colorado, at the time (he is now Denver's mayor.) I built a slick and informational website for his campaign using React and GatsbyJS.
My Skills
My Passions
I'm as much of a people person as much as I am a coder. I've spent portions of my career as the "lone coder" and as a "higher up" director over multiple teams. At the end of the day, I want to be in the code, and I want to work with great people.
My passion for coding has not ceased since I typed out my first lines of HTML and CSS. Since then, I've learned a myriad of languages and frameworks, but my focus is mostly on TypeScript, Node.js (or lately Bun.js,) and React. On the backend, I've come to believe Serverless Lambdas, Event Queues, and Step Functions can cover 90% of our use cases.
I often build engineering teams from scratch, and it's important to me to hire engineers who care about each other as much as the code they write. The products created from that foundation have a success and longevity unparalleled to others I've come across. I've been told (on multiple occassions) that the teams I create have a remarkable close-knit culture. At a Fortune 50 company, my success in hiring diverse and talented teams culminated in me joining the Diversity & Inclusion committee to help push forward the entire technology organization.
Work With Me
I'm looking for new opportunities as a software architect, lead engineer, or engineering manager/director (who is still close to the code.) If you think I'd be a good fit for your team, shoot me a quick email using the button below, and let's find out!