About me
I blend experience in UX design, full stack web development, and teaching, into a technical leadership role that is ideal for digital product teams. As a Developer Lead at Shopify, I have learned to build teams and navigate the challenges of a company that is scaling fast (I joined Shopify when it was around 700 employees).
On the technical side of things, I specialize in front-end web development with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and I have also built a solid foundation in Ruby/Rails and Object Oriented Programming. I am currently focused on learning to scale myself as a technical lead and learning more about software design and architecture.
Here are some things I care a lot about and would love to discuss with you:
- The challenges of communication and execution at large scale software companies
- Leading teams of developers
- Programming literacy
- Self-directed education and homeschooling
- Resisting the attention economy (e.g. http://humanetech.com/)
- Software design and architecture
- Keeping democracy intact
- Magic, fantasy, and the importance of play
Here are some technologies I know: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, Javascript, Typescript, React, HTML, CSS, Git, The internet
Here are some technologies I have tried and enjoyed using: Angular, Coffeescript, React Native, Node, Elixir, Elm