Portfolio

Got to play around with Serverless Cloud this weekend! https://blog.grahamr.dev/how-to-build-a-discord-webhook-service-using-serverless-cloud

I gave a presentation about my team's project, Pilot, which you can re-watch on YouTube here.

Another one bites the dust! My team and I have been using Waypoint extensively (and you'll see why very soon 😉) and we encountered a bug - investigated it, squashed it, and now it's merged! https:/...

First open-source contribution merged into main 🥳 as someone who's used HashiCorp's Vagrant before and really enjoyed it, it's a little surreal knowing I've helped extend some of the functionality!...

While it's reached buzzword levels of infamy, something I have struggled with a lot is impostor syndrome. Not just in regards to tech or software engineering. In fact, most of my life I've been liv...

In April, I began prep-work for Launch School's Capstone program, which you can read about here. This will be my full-time focus until my team and I complete our project.

After spending years in therapy merely treating it as a buffer between me and the Void, I decided to finally commit to moving forward in some fashion since I was truly struggling with my mental hea...

I left Forefront to move back home and help take care of my grandmother. I also started taking Launch School seriously at this time, which you can read about here.

During lockdown, I signed up for some community college courses in psychology. While I love psychology, I knew that it would take a long-term commitment to truly pursue it and I wasn't ready at the...

I started a full-time position at Forefront Solutions as a software engineer. I continued to contribute to our legacy codebase written in PHP and jQuery, and began to work directly with our largest...

I was spending this summer giving Physics II my 3rd try. Eventually, I realized my GPA was inversely proportional to the amount of money I was spending on school, so I decided it was no longer wort...

I started a part-time internship at Forefront Solutions, where I dove into a legacy codebase written in PHP and jQuery to fix bugs, tweak features, and improve user experience.

I was elected Vice-Chair of my school's IEEE chapter. This is where I solidified my desire to work in technology. I loved being part of the community, going to conferences, and mentoring underclass...

Somehow my Calculus II professor convinced me to double major in Applied Mathematics???

My job last job at Target quickly radicalized me since I got to see the horrors and hypocrisies of massive corporations up close and personal! So I went full circle and switched back to Computer En...

I realized that, while I enjoyed hardware, I wasn't sure if it was what I wanted to work with long-term. I ended up switching to Computer Science, since I had enjoyed the programming I had done in ...

I became increasingly dis-satisfied with technology. Or at least, that's what I thought; in reality, I just had a big 'ol case of impostor syndrome because I was pretty quickly failing out of colle...

Many compounding factors led to me having a panic attack on the job. I ended up quitting and re-working my entire life in the span of 24 hours! Well, not really. I did quit, and made many other ras...

I was promoted a couple months later to Target Protection Specialist - a whopping $0.20 raise to deal with being threatened by knives, stop people from stealing food that ends up being thrown away ...

Started my first job as a Cart Attendant at Target, where I learned to juggle the responsibilities of "no one else wants to do this"

I spent a month studying abroad in Germany at Hochshule Esslingen near Stuttgart. This is where I peaked. Everything I do in life is to re-create how I felt in Germany and nothing more.

Began Freshmen year at Lipscomb University studying Computer Engineering