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About
Me.

Hello and welcome to my little corner of the internet. I'm Jason, a software engineer currently living in Seattle, Washington. I would best describe myself as an entrepreneurial programmer, which means that I look at code through the lens of creating and maintaining great products.

During my time at Linebreak, through the many late night discussions with my co-founders, and the many many apps that we created, I learned how important it was to create products that people loved using and truly added value to their lives. I learned how to launch early and iterate quickly, how to create stand out products by solving unique and difficult problems, and how to start with "why" in order to focus product direction. These experiences informed the strategies I would use to architect code so that I could balance business/product needs with high quality software engineering.

My hope with this blog is to continue to explore this balance between business and engineering so that we can create better solutions for future products.

Skills

Frontend

  • Web
    • HTML/CSS
    • ReactJS/NextJS
    • Spring MVC
    • Django  

  • Mobile
    • React Native
    • Native iOS

Backend

  • BAAS
    • Firebase/Firestore
    • AWS Amplify  

  • IaC
    • AWS CDK
    • AWS CloudFormation  

  • Serverless
    • AWS Lambda
    • AWS DynamoDB  

  • Storage
    • Firebase Cloud Storage
    • AWS S3  

  • Auth
    • AWS IAM  

Languages

  • Javascript/Typescript
  • Swift
  • Python
  • Java
  • C/C++