I love creating things and I love problem solving. If that seems vague, it may explain why I am constantly dabbling in new languages and frameworks. I've developed a good working relationship with PHP/Laravel and Vue.js lately, and am building a webapp you can try out over at www.Privvi.io... but I'm already excited to dive into a project using a Node/Express back end.

I've been a loner hobbyist for a long time, and I'm looking forward to getting involved in a team environment, learning from people who are better than I am, and contributing to something bigger than what I can do alone.

I'm a freelance/contract/hobbyist web developer by night; by day, I coordinate disability support and tutoring programs for a community college. I certainly can't say I "taught myself" to program, because I have benefited from fantastic online resources and the questions and generous responses of probably thousands of people on websites like Stack Overflow. However, everything I have learned, I have learned because I have wanted to, because it is fascinating and exciting and cool.

I would consider myself a full-stack developer primarily because I want to understand how everything works, and I want to be able to know how to do it myself; but I get the most joy out of front-end development, which I find straddles the line between data and procedures and design and UX in a way that I find satisfying.