I am a software engineer who has been working in the industry for over fifteen years. I enjoy music, gaming, iconography, and home improvement projects. I love to continuously learn new things, and I find expanding my knowledge base often comes while helping others do the same. One of my passions is the Extra Life fundraiser, which raises money for kids in Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
Pictogrammers is an open-source community developing high-quality icons for use by designers and developers in web and application development. As a co-founder, I designed, develop, and maintain our web site. I also help maintain our icon databases, field issues on GitHub, and have personally contributed more than 1400 icons to our various libraries!
I love speaking at conferences, meetups, and more. You can find archives of my past presentations in my talks repository.
For the past eight years, I have been participating in the Extra Life fundraiser. Extra Life works to save local kids through the power of gaming, and 100% of all donations go directly to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. From 2017 to 2020, I led the Accusoft Team and we raised over $30,000 in those four years!
I have been a huge advocate for Extra Life over the years, because I believe so strongly in its goal: to give hope to children who are confronting scary things no child should have to face. In addition to raising money for Extra Life, I have also:
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Created an NPM module wrapping the Extra Life API, allowing fundraisers to build interactive applications to help them in their fundraising goals.
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Given a presentation about the creation of that NPM module at API: World 2019.
If I have ever helped you in the past, and you are looking for a way to give back or if you are just feeling generous, please consider donating to this amazing cause! #ForTheKids