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Collin Sparks

@collinsparks
Early-Career; Come say hello! :)
Aurora, IL
he / him

Pythonista

React

Git

Dancer

Available for Hire

Introvert

Home Barista

Human

Gardener

Dog Mum

GitHub user

Python Developer

SQL

Russian Literature reader

Dark Mode Enthusiast

E-sports Enthusiast

Self-Taught

Actor

Coding

Hobby

Hi there!

I'm an early-career software enthusiast, with a background in dance and theatre nerdiness!

My happiest and proudest moments have taken place in the company of stellar friends and colleagues; I'm always looking out for opportunities to find and interact with these pockets of high-quality humans :)

Cheers!

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I'm open to

open source contributions,

live streaming,

and volunteering.

Portfolio

Excellent course, "Modern React with Redux" by Stephen Grider “"Whoa... this is way more natural than raw HTML and JS!"” I met a web developer while playing Rocket League... we chatted for the whol...

I had too much data for the web-cookie jar... “@#!*&#!!!” My data-parsing-spreadsheet-tool-turned-web-app needed to accept arbitrarily-large documents... I realized after the fact that cookies only...

My CLI tool was too inaccessible for my (very non-tech) users. “"You still did it by HAND???"” I decided to rewrite it into a web-app, which I could deploy on the internet with a GUI and the abilit...

I started using Python in 2018 to help my mom. “"Wait... this actually works!???"” I wrote a data-parsing tool to automate a dreadful set of tasks for generating huge spreadsheets. I was amazed whe...