About Me

As a kid, I was always taking apart my electronic toys, trying to figure out how they worked, and putting them back together. Occasionally, they’d even work once I reassembled them! Then, when my parents bought our first computer, I was hooked. It ran Windows 3.1. I learned pretty quickly some of those foundational principals of how computers worked. Some of my fondest memories from that era are of messing with the way the computer did stuff via the command line.

From then on, computers were my biggest fascination. Well into my early twenties, I was constantly toying with old computers and trying to learn more and more about tech. A few number of years ago, I was in a dead-end retail job, wishing for something worthwhile to do. I did a lot of reading and decided that since the future was moving more and more to the web, then the web was where I needed to be.

These days I’m a full-stack WordPress developer with over 10 years of experience building custom themes and plugins, full-stack applications with PHP and Laravel on the backend and React or Vue on the front, and keeping production sites running reliably for clients. I also own and run an independent bookstore and café in Farmington, New Mexico, which among other things gave me the chance to build the store’s original WooCommerce site from scratch. Running a small business has given me a pretty grounded sense of what it actually means to build something that has to work in the real world.