Eamonn Cottrell

@eamonn

Visual Design

Writer

Podcaster

Web Developer

Musician

Author

Food Business

Parent

Thinker

I run a handful of coffee shops and roastery by day.

I enjoy coding, design, data, writing, video, podcasting and continuous education.

I'm a family man and father of 3 (almost 4) awesome kids!

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I'm open to

giving resume feedback,

live streaming,

making introductions,

full time roles,

joining company boards,

speaking on podcasts,

content creation,

speaking on twitter spaces,

part time roles,

co-founding a company,

beta testing new products,

and producing a podcast.

Contact Me

Resume

May 2003 - Present

COO, Cups Espresso Cafe

Portfolio

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Was a runner-up in Writeathon at Hashnode last month! I wrote these four articles for the competition: https://blog.eamonncottrell.com/series/writeathon-2022

Wrote an article about building an open source project to learn good project management practices. https://blog.eamonncottrell.com/build-an-open-source-css-library

Wrote about my two favorite mission-driven technology companies: Khan Academy and freeCodeCamp. Both of these have been instrumental in my education and my coding. https://blog.eamonncottrell.com/t...

Wrote about my personal journey with coding. Spoiler: It's been much longer and much more diverse than a months long bootcamp. 😂 This is the first of a four week writing challenge over at Hashnode....

Design & Illustrations

Completed another illustration for the Sacred Geometry pack. screenshot below; hi res pack coming soon.

Another illustration in the Sacred Geometry pack

#100DaysOfCode

Finished the scatterplot project over at freeCodecamp. This was a lot of fun...and was infuriating at the same time. As with most hurdles, the most difficult ones to get over provide the most satis...

Things I’ve built

Shipped my first product of the year, and my first ever on Gumroad: a free Google Sheets Finance Tracker Template

Podcasts

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Released a new re-verse podcast: https://share.transistor.fm/s/d2f8c0e3

Recorded and released a new re-verse podcast. https://share.transistor.fm/s/702e9433

Published a new podcast episode for Re-Verse: https://share.transistor.fm/s/a70410ac These soundscape/scripture combos are featured on my Infinite Memory web application as well.

Released a new Re-Verse podcast, Jarring. https://share.transistor.fm/s/a5ec4c2f These episodes are featured on my web app project, Infinite Memory.

Videos

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Began documenting my training for the Barkley Fall Classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt4Kixkr3II

Made a couple tutorial videos for the Toast point of sale system. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM4kOja-yPM7-7zdCLGamHLH6Qzk-ryyG

Streamed a review of my vanilla js project and then the recording of my latest podcast episode. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1300202188?t=0h0m33s

Made a quick overview of a vanilla JS project I'm working on. https://youtu.be/oY5ej6tZdCE

Articles and blogs

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Having a blast animating SVGs from within their code for GitHub README animations. https://blog.eamonncottrell.com/animate-svgs-for-github-readmes

Wrote an article for freeCodeCamp about using Google Sheets to display multiple images in a dropdown, dynamically changeable list using VLOOKUP and REGEX. Lot of fun doing this, and it solved a spe...

Wrote an article about null and undefined in JavaScript for freeCodeCamp. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-nullable-how-to-check-for-null-in-js/

Wrote an article for freeCodeCamp about dates & strings in Javascript. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-string-to-date-date-parsing-in-js/