My resume

I’m a self-taught Rubyist who in mid-2020 left a career in humanities teaching, got a new day job in tech support, and used my newfound free time to work toward my first developer job.

Work

Sana Benefits | Remote

Software Engineer April 2023 – present

Associate Software Engineer Feb. 2022 – March 2023

Booster Apps and Rivo | Remote

Tech Support Manager July 2021 – Feb. 2022

Tech Support Engineer June 2020 – June 2021

Personal projects

“Learn Ruby” resource list 2020 – present

Learning in public as a way to keep myself motivated while helping others find good learning resources.

This website | GitHub | Bridgetown, Hotwire (Stimulus + Turbo Drive) 2021 – present

Blogging monthly on development-related topics.
Featured on the Ruby Rogues podcast for the Bridgetown tutorial that I wrote alongside my site.
My Bridgetown tutorial was also featured in Ruby Weekly.

“Reading” Ruby gem 2021 – present

A parser for plain-text CSV reading logs.

Open source contributions

Bridgetown | Ruby 3 Jan. 2022

Circulate (Ruby for Good) | Rails 6, RSpec, Factory Bot Dec. 2021

Education

M.A. in Classical Studies | University of Kentucky 2014 – 2017

B.A. in English Literature | LeTourneau University 2010 – 2014