I am a lover of learning and craft. In both of these pursuits, I find tremendous amounts of fulfillment and energy. Because of this passion, I can maintain positive momentum in moments of adversity and failure. I seek a team that values quality, learning, and humility.
At the end of the day, I need to be surrounded by people who love the craft of software development as its own end.
- Software development
- Sociology
- Public speaking
- Long-distance Running
- Novels
- Music
- Listening
- Conflict resolution
- Education software
- Health and fitness analytics
- Cybersecurity
- Other technology stacks
- Work with people who are curious, hard-working, passionate, and kind
- Serve people involved with learning or those who need better tools to do their work more efficiently and securely
- Harness endurable energy for myself and provide it for others
- Stay calm in stressful situations
- Find creative solutions
- Identify system patterns
- Listen carefully
- Build applications that are test-driven and follow OO principles
- Room to move around
- Natural lighting
- Open access to others
- Large workspaces (monitors, desks, etc)
- Culture of humor
- $75,000 - $85,000
- Ability to: use my expertise, exercise leadership, help others, creative
- Bonuses: intellectual stimulation from colleagues, respect, challenge
- Specific: Denver/Boulder, Detroit, Remote
- General: places of historical or geographical significance
- Liberate through enthusiastic education.
Liberate captures both a sense of empowerment and the harsh reality that being set free is often disorienting.
I chose the preposition ‘through’ because it highlights the need to face the adversity of liberation directly by going through it, not around, above, et cetera.
While painted-chest sports fans might come to mind, enthusiasm comes from root ‘en theos’, meaning to be one with or inspired by God. Taking it out of a theological context, to be enthusiastic is to feel a connection to something greater, which is essential for creating intrinsic and sustainable drive.
Education also has an interesting etymological root. The Latin ‘educere’ means to come out of some place, which really speaks to how transformative teaching and learning can be: it can literally bring you out of one place (often some form of figurative darkness) to another (perhaps unsurprisingly referred to as enLIGHTenment).
These words, powerful in meaning on their own, come together to communicate more broadly that personal growth is a worthy, necessary, and rewarding endeavor.