I’m a backend focused full stack web developer, most comfortable with Clojure + Clojurescript, Python, and Javascript.

I also make music

Programming Resume

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Skills

• Technical Product Management
• Clojure, Clojurescript
  • Reagent, Reframe, HoneySQL, Pathom
• Javascript, TypeScript
  • React, Redux, JSON Schema, Node
• Python
  • Django, Django Oscar, Django Wagtail, Django Rest Framework
• SQL
  • PostgreSQL
• DevOps
  • Docker, AWS, Terraform, Azure, Linux/*nix, Bash Scripting
• Interactive (for fun)
  • p5.js
  • C# for Unity
  • C for Arduino

Values

• Simple is better than complex
• Design code around the data, not the other way around
• Data should map onto the real world
• Document all the things
• Chose tools that allow for faster iteration
  • Making Smaller Circles

Projects

Waveblocker

live
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A browser based paint app where the user changes colors by singing. Uses Web Audio APIs, ml5.js, p5.js with Clojurescript.

Monotron Duo + Arduino MIDI

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Adding MIDI input to a toy synth with an Arduino. A fun introduction to micro controllers, C programming and MIDI.

Favorite books, talks and papers

• Simple Made Easy
• SICP
  • I’m currently on Chapter 4
• Programming With Hand Tools
• A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics
• The Nature of Code
  • My example exercises with Clojurescript and Quil
• DevOps Demystified
• Operations Management: Process and Supply Chains
• The Future of Programming
• The Little Schemer
• Clojure for the Brave and True
• Everything I Have Learned I Have Learned from Someone Else
• The Art of Learning
• A Pattern language
• The Nature of Order
• How to Solve It
• Grokking Simplicity
• The Web After Tomorrow
• The Dream Machine