About Me
Hello, I'm Garrett. I'm a full stack web developer currently living in Birmingham, Alabama. I enjoy making stylish, performant, responsive, and search engine optimized websites.
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Hello World!
Made friends in the Halo 3 modding community who introduced me to
programming mod tools in Visual Basic and C#.
2010
Reaction Gif DataBase
After learning some basic HTML and CSS I created a gif hosting
website using PHP and mySQL where users could upload, tag, and
search various gifs. The upload script would hash and check the
database for duplicates before storing the gif to reduce duplicate
uploads.
2012
Class Scheduler
Expanding on this, I developed a web interface for finding ideal
class schedules for my community college. This project focused
more heavily on efficient methods of querying and sorting
data.
2014
Learning OOP
Midway through my Computer Science curriculum at Auburn
University I learned much more about Object Oriented Programming
and gained exposure to languages from Python down to
Assembly.
2016
Web Development
Closer to the end of my college career I became bored with
creating CLI tools that technically work but are a UX nightmare. I
started creating small webapps in Node.js and realized the fruit
of my labor tastes sweeter with a sleek front end on
top.
2018
Yellow Card
Before graduation I begain working for a Cryptocurrency exchange
startup called Yellow Card. There I was introduced to my first
modern Javascript framework Vue.js. Being a smaller startup
company, I was given exposure and responsibility over the entire
stack, allowing me to mature into a full stack
developer.
2019
Hobbies and Interests
Open Source / *nix
I am a supporter of the open source ideology. I believe that most code should be free to use and contribute to.
Speedrunning
Speedrunning is the act of beating a videogame as quickly as possible. Watching a seasoned speedrunner beat your favorite game is a treat.
Craft Beer
Beer is great! It's even better enjoyed with a small group of friends over a board game at your local brewry. Porter/Stout man.
