Max Lepper

@maxllepper
Self-taught Web Dev • Career Industrial Dev • Blogging and Startups
Dayton, OH

Career Changer

Web Developer

Self-Taught

Blogger

Learn In Public

Open Source Contributor

Black Lives Matter

Inclusion and Diversity Enthusiast

JavaScript

React

CSS

WordPress

Project Management

Community Management

Self-Starter

Failed in Public

CI/CD

GitLab User

Startup Enthusiast

Side Projects

Obsidian.md

Animation

Notion Enthusiast

Discord Admin

Pixel Art

Home Automator

Cocktail Enthusiast

Neopets Alumnus

Rabbit Hole Explorer

Home Mixologist

Home Barista

Hi there, I'm Max, a self-taught web developer / multi-discipline engineer! I work full-time developing software platforms for industrial vehicles, and come home and work on web development projects until later than I should.

Currently, I'm developing a site for Silver is Gold, which is a non-profit site aiming to connect retired individuals with companies to solve high-level business challenges and assist with staffing needs. I'm also constantly writing in my personal development journey blog, Learning Log.

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I'm open to

open source contributions,

participating in user research,

and brainstorming.

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Resume

Apr 2019 - Present

Electronic Controls Specialist, Scott Industrial Systems

Oct 2015 - Apr 2019

Electronic Controls Programmer, Scott Industrial Systems

Mar 2014 - Dec 2016

Co-Founder, Intraverse VR LLC

Oct 2013 - Oct 2015

Lead Drafter (Drafter IV), Scott Industrial Systems

Portfolio

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Contributed a pull request to a DokuWiki plugin to resolve a fatal error after DokuWiki version updates. https://github.com/tschinz/dokuwiki_stars_plugin/pull/8

While we had developed some promising demos and had exciting success with our pneumatic soft muscle and tendon operator IK controls, the team at Intraverse VR encountered an issue that we would not...

After debating the issues with VR haptics and how to drive immersive experiences, and creating a few preliminary designs, I incorporated Intraverse VR with two friends. Our mission is to design hap...

My feature PR to "create-react-component-folder" is accepted and is released live on version 0.3.7

Blog Posts

Exceeded 100k words written in my blog posts over the course of the past year! https://maxlepper.gitlab.io/learning-log/journal/2021/07/25/polish-css-seo-and-production.html

I posted my first blog on a my new site, Learning Log! Learning Log will be a place to record my time, learning resources, challenges, successes, and failures in public as I learn modern web develo...

Certifications

I completed my Software Project Management Specialization certificate from Coursera! View the certificate here 👇 https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/specialization/certificate/C52P7NEA...