Wrote internal software using React, Redux and Rails to support the Recurse Center jobs team.Created a website styleguide in tandem with a design refresh, enabling more CSS reuse across RC's various pieces of software and speeding up the development process.Improved the front end development process by adding LiveReload, switching to Autoprefixer from Compass and adding automated JavaScript linting.

Assisted Recurse Center attendees with a wide variety of technical problems, including help with choosing effective projects for their learning goals, finding good learning materials and squashing tricky bugs.Planned and led critique groups, a new experiment at RC: bi-weekly small group meetings where Recursers could get in-depth code review and discuss the goals of their programming projects.

Spearheaded migrating version control systems from Bazaar to Git. Researched effective migration strategies, wrote documentation and gave training presentations to help the dev team use Git effectively.Wrote a new JavaScript model layer for the internal front end framework that was well-received and quickly integrated into additional projects.Implemented a front end build system using Gulp and improved front end practices, including adding unit tests, using CommonJS modules and streamlining our CSS by following BEM conventions and creating a styleguide.Introduced React as part of development on a new product by integrating it with existing front end code.

Designed and developed websites for small businesses, primarily on the LAMP stack. Worked directly with clients to determine their design needs and project requirements.Introduced better development practices, including version control and automated deployment.Built software to generate print layouts for a large-format printer directly from online customer orders, automating a previously tedious manual process and streamlining production.