Hello!
I'm a creative software engineer adept at delivering impactful solutions through cross-functional collaborations. My background in music, writing, and education gives me a unique perspective and ability to empathize with users, leading to intuitive and easy-to-use designs.
These experiences translate in to results: for example, winning Google's BitRate hackathon in 2020 for our team's generative text-to-music AI web application, DearDiary.ai.
Areas of expertise include:
- Full-stack development using JavaScript, React, Node, Express, MongoDB, HTML, and CSS.
- Marketing and writing skills including content strategy, technical writing, and editing.
- Music and audio production, mixing, and editing using Logic, Max/MSP, and Final Cut.
- Curriculum design and instruction for lesson and course development.
- Strong fluency in Spanish and functional knowledge of Portuguese.
- High emotional intelligence and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills, both individually and as a team member.
Current Projects:
👨💻 Creative Developer/Project Manager - full-stack development, music & audio, building tools for creativity.
⚡️ Founder/Principal at Lightning Lessons - 15+ years connecting people to themselves and their community via stellar remote guitar and music coaching. Inspiring musical creativity through educational YouTube content. Thousands of successful guitar lessons taught.
🎶 Songwriter/Producer at Gentle Return - writing, recording, performing weird pop indie rock. Owning the full project pipeline of audio production, from idea to release. Programming custom audiovisuals in Max/MSP/Jitter, creating videos on YouTube. Crafting custom composition and sound design for film, podcasts, brands, and non-profits (including sound design for our beloved freeCodeCamp.org).