Software engineer based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Passionate about all things tech, solving interesting problems, learning how things work, and [simultaneously] breaking and building things in order to create something to be proud of.
Currently working at Industrial Resolution as a Senior Software / Elastic Certified Engineer.
I enjoy working on lots of little passion projects which you can find on my GitHub and getting involved within my local tech scene.
Incoherent ramblings, project updates, reviews, and other writings fallen into the ether.
This is a bit of a retroactive post that’s been sitting in my drafts, but two months ago I had the pleasure of attending ElasticON 2024 in New York City thanks to our company being a partner and sponsor for the event. It was a great experience and I learned a lot about current and upcoming features within the Elastic stack. I also had the opportunity to meet some of the Elastic team as well as some of my clients.
A few years ago, the RRTA (Red Rose Transit Authority) performed a big overhaul to their transit system, including the introduction of a new mobile app called RRTA Go Mobile by ModeShift. The app was designed to replace the old paper tickets and passes with a digital system that could be used to purchase passes and plan trips. As a big proponent of public transit, this was a very welcomed improvement for me. There were a few issues early on with QR codes not scanning properly and/or failing to renew, but those issues were quickly resolved. I myself have submitted a ticket or two to the developers regarding some issues I’ve encountered and received a fairly timely response with fixes following shortly after, so props to the developers for that.
Earlier this year, I became interested in the LCWC (Lancaster County-Wide Communications) incident page - a county-wide dispatch system that provides incident updates for all of Lancaster County, PA.
Here are a few public projects I’ve worked on. I still have a lot yet to add here and some of these might not be 100% up to date, but I'll get to it eventually™.
If you would like to see my portfolio and resume for professional work, message me.
General-purpose Discord bot with some tailored features for Lancaster County, PA.
Tenji (展示) is an open-source project aimed at providing a reliable REST API for MyFigureCollection.net.
LCWC++ is a third-party, open-source project aimed at creating a REST API for the Lancaster County-Wide Communications (LCWC) webcad service
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