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Full Stack. Curious. Actively contributing to the open-source community.I build custom websites for small businesses looking to expand their audience with improved SEO and overall performance. I enjoy working in Next.js, React, Node/Express and postgreSQL, but more important to me is picking the right tool for the job. I've had great success especially with migrating businesses away from Wix / SquareSpace legacy storefronts, reducing year over year digital operating costs by more than 72%. If you're interested in learning more or seeing some of my past work, don't hesitate to reach out!I am also actively contributing to NexTrace, an open-source performance monitoring and debugging tool for Next.js applications. I'm passionate about network health and ensuring optimal performance across the codebase. Also, console.log() is my hero.I recently published an article to medium.com exploring the reasoning behind the NexTrace team's decision making. I've also been invited to speak publicly on web sockets, their various protocols, and why/when to use them.In my spare time, I've been developing a chess application inspired by Chess.com's famous "Puzzle Rush" within React, C#.NET and MongoDB. I also enjoy violin, game design and making sushi.

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  Software Engineer

  Nextrace (Open-Source)

  Aug 2023 - Present

  - Utilized Facebook’s JSCodeshift API to perform codemods, extracting and manipulating ASTs in consumer’s codebase in a secure, minimally invasive manner that doubled expected client-base with support for JavaScript and TypeScript file types- Integrated React and D3 libraries into IDE workspace using VSCode API to provide consumers with UI elements and graph displays, allowing developers to easily assess the efficiency of their application and streamline work-flow through single-click file navigation- Built a robust NextJS playground application for end-to-end testing which helped identify countless bugs, resulting in a more stable 1.0 launch- Increased testing coverage 54% across React front-end as well an Express back-end using Jest, resulting in smoother post-launch development and significant reduction of technical debt