I always thought my dream was to be a music composer, writing my compositions with my fountain pen under the light of a candle in a dark room. But that felt like I’m using only my creativity, and that did not satisfy my problem-solving urge. I yearned to learn more, yearned to learn something different.

And that’s when it happened – the spark I was missing ignited the instant I clicked play on my first JavaScript tutorial video. Since then I can’t get enough. Web development calls to all my passions; it incorporates creativity and problem solving and I’m allowed to break it to improve the code (in a separate Git branch, of course).

I love applying responsive design principles and watching my web pages shrink into mobile screens and still look amazing. It’s oddly satisfying. I think in a way I’m kind of like those web pages; I’m moldable, but I still keep my creative flare intact.

My specialties include quickly learning new skills and programming languages, problem-solving, responsive design principles, website optimization, So far I have JavaScript, TypeScript, jQuery, API, HTML, CSS, SASS,  Bootstrap, Node.js, ExpressJS, MongoDB, REST, Jasmine and Git/GitHub under my belt. I’ve started learning React.js and React native. I’m still enthusiastically grabbing onto any other programming languages, frameworks, or principles I can integrate into the coding web in my head.