Acknowledgments
I am grateful to the coworkers, mentors (formal and informal!), managers, and friends who have supported and encouraged me—and who gave me the chance to be part of their projects along the way.
Career Influencers
A.F., M.B., and D.Z. for helping me start my career in web development.
M.B. again for helping me find my next opportunity during a rough job market.
M.S. for the wide array of projects and responsibilities you gave me.
G.S. for inspiring me to develop my first React application.
S. "MD" for inspiring me to learn Phaser game framework.
R.P. for encouraging me to explore generative AI. "We're all LLMs."
Logo
E.L. for donating your time to design my professional logo. I still love it after all these years.
Content Strategy
E.P. for the idea of adding tags to this portfolio.
First Draft Readers
L.Y. for sassing me over my bad code example.
Tutorial Websites
WebMonkey for helping me learn PHP way-back when.
W3Schools for being my go-to for learning.
Coding Challenge Websites
Project Euler for the opportunities to practice Perl.
CodinGame for all the opportunities to practice Python.
LeetCode for all the opportunities to practice both Python and 11 more languages.
Poetry References
Robert Frost for his beautiful poem, The Road Not Taken, which I then repurposed.