About

Yes. I’m a bit of a nerd. But not one of the antisocial ones. I genuinely love people. There is something energizing and rewarding in helping others, talking, teaching, and socializing.

You may be wondering how I became the person I am. Well, it is a long story. It starts before I was born, but we won’t go back that far. I started building websites in 2013 with simple HTML and CSS. I quickly started learning PHP to enable me to customize Joomla, the first CMS I used. However, I soon discovered getting a site to show up in Google was more work than building the website. With that, I dove headfirst into the world of SEO.

As time went on, the relative popularity of Joomla waned as that of WordPress grew. I reluctantly learned WordPress but was pleasantly surprised to find it works well for blogs, small business websites, and e-commerce sites (with WooCommerce). I have yet to be convinced that it should be used as the default CMS, especially for more specialized content types or high traffic websites.

In 2018 I started learning Python and have built and deployed a few several applications with Flask and Django. Go and TypeScript were added to my toolbox over the last two years. I possess a decent knowledge of Vue.js, AWS, Linux, Apache, SQL, Git, and a dozen other things I work with day in and day out. I am never done learning. I have a long list of technologies that I would like to learn.

I craft each project as a piece of art. My keyboard is my brush and my next masterpiece is but waiting to be discovered. I love what I do!

My focus is on creating simple, elegant, maintainable code that creates real value for the people who use it.

In my free time, I also enjoy reading, writing about SEO and web development, and teaching classes for the local chamber of commerce. When I am not busy making the internet a better place, my time is spent with my beautiful wife, Emily, and my one-year-old son.