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I am an experienced software engineer passionate about learning and building performant, correct applications. I've been recognized as a individual performer and as a team player.
Outside of programming for work, I enjoy programming for fun, reading, tinkering with Raspberry Pis and surfing Lake Michigan when time and weather and children allow.
w0rk experience
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CompanyNorthwestern MutualSoftware EngineerI work on the client website building new products, supporting legacy systems, and contributing to interal libraries to support and enhance product development.React Redux TypeScript Express Graphql
I was recognized as the individual contributor of Q2 2023 of Northwestern Mutual’s web and mobile engineers for having decreased the entire client website’s LCP by ~500ms.
Individually built a custom SSG framework to be used with vanilla vite configs for prerendering static apps to improve apps' performance as the org transitioned to React frontends served from S3. -
CompanyThe Peach Software CompanyOwner, Software EngineerPrevious work includes converting a headless JS app into a Qwik/ Qwik-City (TypeScript) frontend and an Actix (Rust) backend for web and native mobile clients to consume.Rust Actix TypeScript Qwik Postgres
The frontend scoresacross every Lighthouse metric on both web and mobile. The backend test coverage is over 65%. -
CompanyCatholic Charities of St. Paul and MinneapolisSoftware Developer/ AdministratorI built and maintained internal web apps (Flask and Django) for critical agency wide functions, e.g. critical incidents, employee management.Python Django Flask Postgres HTMX
recent p0sts
streaming html bodies with axum
streaming html bodies with axum
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Stream HTML to clients. The best rendering pattern known.
a rust blog with axum htmx and cloudflare
a rust blog with axum htmx and cloudflare
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Building a blog site in Rust with Axum and HTMX and hosting it on Fly.io and Cloudflare.
if an ai could speak
if an ai could speak
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The power of language, statistics and just how far we still are from something meaningful coming from ai