Some call me Kern.
I'm a (mostly) self-taught Software Engineer, passionate about freedom of information, privacy, open-source, and evolving with emerging tech.
An aspiring polyglot, I am meticulous, persistent, and creative in my ability to deliver solutions and apply humanistic principles in my work.
Yipp, yipp!
- MySQL, Redis, Supabase, PostgreSQL
- Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy
- TypeScript, Remix (v2), React Native, React Router, Tanstack Start
- GitHub Actions, Sentry, DigitalOcean, Render, Cloudflare Workers, Docker
- 🧪 bolstering a codebase test suite with pytest, unittest, coverage, etc.
- ✅ configuring multiple CI pipelines with Github Actions to validate code security, lint, format, test, type, & compile/build checks
- 🎟️ iterating on a custom voucher management Shopify app built with Remix, TypeScript, Prisma, MySQL, Polaris, & Tailwind CSS
- 🔭 seeking out and taking advantage of opportunities to contribute to open-source projects
- 🆕 configuring & integrating HubSpot with existing technologies for various clients
- 🧰 studying System Design & Architecture and DevOps best practices
- 📖 teaching myself Rust & Golang
- 🫔 hungry, probably
- Oxlint Collection of JavaScript tools written in Rust
- Ruff Rust-based next-gen Python linter and formatter
- Pyrefly Fast type-checker and Python language server (you guessed it) built with Rust 🦀
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I update this document regularly to supplement all my hidden github contributions in private repositories. Plus I enjoy it. So let's drop it!
🦫 Pet Projects:
- 📦 culinary-unit-abbreviation - lightweight and tested npm library that converts culinary unit strings into their corresponding abbreviations
- TypeScript/Jest/npm
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- 📝 WebDev Flashcards - An open-source Web Developer study tool deployed on Vercel
- JavaScript Full Stack (Node.js, React, Express, MongoDB)
- repository
- 🕹️ NinjaSweeper - Minesweeper clone hosted with GitHub Pages
- Vanilla JavaScript/CSS/HTML
- repository
⏸️ Curriculum-borne projects:
- 🍔 GetYum - A spoonacular API-fueled Recipe-to-Grocery List app with Spotify Web player integration (Dev10 Capstone group project)
- 📈 VolatilitySurf - Stock Options Volatility Surface Trading Tool (Coding Dojo group Java project)
- 🤧 LookAchoo - Geolocal Sneeze Context App (Coding Dojo personal MERN stack project)
- 🍳 piqr - Random Recipe CRUD App (Coding Dojo personal Python project)
