Bio
I gave the Cliff Notes on the homepage, but I guess this is the (slightly) longer-from version.
I'm a long-time software engineer who got my start in the early 2000s in grad school. I spent a long time based in Charleston, working with several local companies before settling into a remote role a few years ago. I've since moved with my family to the Augusta, Georgia area.
I've spent a plurality of my working life working with PHP and JavaScript in their various incarnations across the last fifteen to twenty years. I've also got practical experience with C# across two different jobs, and honestly, there's a lot I miss about it. Go has been a more recent obsession of mine, primarily for building command line tools for personal use, but I'm still looking for more interesting use cases for it.
Here's my LinkedIn if you're looking for a more thorough overview of my work experience.
A few experience related bullet points:
Years of practical experience with modern frontend frameworks (React and Vue), but also the ancient wisdom one only has if they spent a lot of times in the jQuery mines.
I've used PHP on-and-off since 5.3, and I am currently working frequently with 8.3 and 8.4.
Spent the C# portion of my career bridging the divide between the later web frameworks of .NET 4 into .NET Core. Absolutely fell in love with Dapper, honestly (especially after being exposed to Entity Framework at the time).
Spent a ton of time around server administration and what's now called DevOps. Spent time managing bare metal Linux servers across several years, learned more than I ever wanted to know about containers and orchestration after that, managed to use AWS in production for years without an insane cloud bill, and these days, I spend time wrangling dev/prod Kubernetes in Google Cloud and trying to improve our local Docker setup for development.
Worked in a wide variety of different industries/sectors over the years: education, defense, ecommerce, an HR SaaS, manufacturing, and most recently an accounting SaaS.