About
I'm a developer and designer based in Rapid City, South Dakota, with a BA in Computer Science from Claremont McKenna College and Harvey Mudd College in Southern California. Day to day, I work full time on internal web systems for a contracting company, which means a lot of full-stack ownership across a consistent stack of C#, .NET, and Vue.
Outside of that, I design and build websites for small businesses and creative organizations, and I take on freelance and collaborative work — especially projects with room for unconventional ideas. I'm also interested in continuing the remote-sensing research I started in undergrad (light emissions from vegetation as a proxy for photosynthesis and CO2 intake), and — someday — partnering with National Geographic to help document endangered cultures and ecosystems.
I'm also drawn to ethnography and oral history — sitting down with people and asking how their world has changed. That interest carried a Fulbright proposal on climate and cultural change in Kyrgyzstan to the finalist round; further down is the version of that project that actually happened.
I care about software that's careful and legible, but I don't take it too seriously — most of what I build for fun is purposefully a little strange. More on that below.
