About me

I completed both my undergraduate and graduate studies in music, specializing in Voice and Opera. During my masters, I started performing with professional ensembles and teaching voice and piano lessons. When the pandemic hit five years later, all my gigs were canceled so I started learning web development in my spare time. When things opened up again, I went back to performing, but continued coding and started building sites for a few clients with my then girlfriend (now wife) who is a designer. I liked coding more than teaching music lessons so after getting married, I took a job as a digital content manager for a large WordPress site. A year later, I took a position as an application programmer on the enterprise applications team at the same organization.

My primary skills/responsibilities are in backend application integrations, web development, and Linux system administration. At work, I mostly write Python and SQL with a little React thrown in as well. My web projects are mostly PHP, JavaScript, and CSS. I split my free time between singing and working on my sysadmin skills in my homelab. As a singer, I specialize in choral music and have made two GRAMMY award-winning albums with Philadelphia new music ensemble The Crossing.