I am a full stack web developer with experience designing and building beautiful mobile first responsive websites. I built custom ecommerce functionality, PayPal integration with WordPress sites, and Gutenberg blocks using React.

I worked with clients to setup websites using pre-existing WordPress themes or design and build custom websites from scratch.

I love building WordPress plugins. My latest project is the category dropdown plugin that lets you display a simple dropdown of parent and child categories on your sidebar.

I was the lead developer for the Chamber Dashboard plugins which provide all the features to build a membership site for Chambers of Commerce and other membership organizations.

What brought me to Web Development?

My web development career started when I decided to take a biotechnology course in the local tech college in Wisconsin. As part of that course, I learn’t HTML, Linux, PHP, Java and also did a project which involved building a HTML page with a php back end. I started building small web pages just to play around with the CSS. The rest as they say is history and I ended up developing websites full time.

In 2012, after moving to Seattle, I joined a small web development company in Bellevue, WA where I worked on a variety of sites and CMS’s. I built custom themes for Magento, WordPress, Drupal. After an year and a half, I decided that I wanted to do some freelance development. So, I quit my job and started freelancing in August of 2014.

Though, I like building any kind of website and always love a challenge, I like working with WordPress as it is very flexible, has tons of documentation help and is very easy to work with. I have faced my share of challenges with the other CMS’s and I try to avoid them if possible.

Hobbies & Interests

When I am not working, I like to try new recipes, work on my garden, read or generally spend time with my family.