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I'm a software engineer based in Denver. I love nature and art.
I'm a software engineer based in Denver, Colorado. I'm helping build Codespaces at GitHub to help make tinkering on code easier.
Previously, I've worked as a developer on platforms for customer data and insights with Custora and Amperity. I taught myself how to code and further studied web frameworks at App Academy. Before that, I worked in avian field biology and leading outdoor programming for adults with developmental disabilities.
In 2012 I graduated from Bowdoin College in my home state of Maine, where I studied biology and spent a lot of time researching an amphibious fish.
I spend most of my spare time these days birding in the Denver area, playing the guitar, and developing a computer strategy game about ecology and evolution.
Education and experience
As a full-stack engineer, I thrive most when working to improve a product from a variety of angles— whether that's collaborating with designers to build polished frontend interfaces, teaming with infrastructure engineers to wrangle data in distributed systems, or connecting it all in a web framework. I especially love Ruby & Rails.
SoftwareCurrently working on a strategy game about evolution, using the Godot engine. Below are some projects I worked on before working as a dev full-time.
Chickadee
KNOW WHAT YOU HEAR IN NATURECURRENTLY UNHO$TED
Ruby on Rails & Backbone.js
It harnesses avian demographic data collected by citizen scientists from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's eBird database, assembling quizzes and detailed information using audio recordings from Xeno-canto's library, photos from Flickr, and detailed descriptions from Wikipedia. Chickadee allows users to custom-tailor their experience, studying birds from their regions of choice— at national, state/provincial, and local/county levels.
JavaScript & HTML Canvas
Arcade-style browser game; life is simpler when you're microscopic.
CURRENTLY UNHO$TED
Python & Flask
Lightweight, single-page web app that finds the most recent reports of owls in North America.
Ruby for CLI
Pure Ruby game for the command line. Will try to get you with Fool's Mate!
Visual ArtExperiments from time to time. Click for fullsize.
UNTITLED (2019)
INTENTION FLOWER (2018)Colorized an old ink drawing from back in 2014.
SEASON'S TREE (2018)20" by 30" collage & oil on foamboard. Special thanks to Tim Farley.
EMMA (2017)16" by 20" oil on canvas. Pretty lady I hang out with.
UNTITLED (2017)16" by 20" oil on canvas. First crack at an oil painting.
SHINING GLEN (2016)14" by 11" paper collage derived from a series of works by oil painter Jim Hansel.
MEETING NEAR THE COVE (2015)28" x 18" paper collage on an old microwave box.
AUDUBON GONE WRONG (2014)
Digitally-unnaturalized bird photography. Series of eight 8" x 10"-ish prints, with photos taken in Maine, Idaho, and Costa Rica.
BEER LABELS (2013-2018)
Made for various homebrews cooked up with friends over the years.
Music Haven't recorded or produced in years, but when I do it's mainly guitars + tinkering in Ableton.
Daymarch EP
Released April 2, 2016
Check out this short EP featuring a blend of
electronic music and guitar/misc recordings. It's hard to describe
the genre but I'd love it if you gave it a listen!
Check out other miscellaneous old tracks on Soundcloud as well.
SoundCloud
Bandcamp
Coming Soon!
I'll port over the blog content from my old site when I get the chance.
