About Me

Hi, my name is Drew, and this is my personal website.

How I became a software developer

It all goes back to a dumb sports injury in high school. I got a multiple-season-ending injury during football season, so I joined the school newspaper in the spring, and discovered a love of photography & journalism that I followed through college, graduating with a degree in history.

I couldn't afford nice photography equipment & a computer for editing, so I learned to build my own computer, and I realized I really liked it. Like really liked it. I eventually went back to school to get a CS degree, and the rest is, well, not history =)

As a result, I'm a highly technically-skilled software engineer with the writing and critical-thinking skills that liberal-arts educations are prized for.

Cool (software) stuff I've done

I love working at startups, and as a result I pour most of my software development energy into work, but here are a couple things I've done that exist outside of a specific work context:

• I wrote & led development of an npm package called @great-expectations/jsonforms-antd-renderers. It is an Ant Design renderer package for the jsonforms library, and it includes some really cool TypeScript types that tell you how to fix your schema-based forms when the schemas change!
• I built a deckbuilding web application for a digital card game called Elder Scrolls: Legends. It's called The Shivering Deckbuilder. You can read about my process in this blog post.
• The data-viz experiments that used to be this site's front page.

Reach me on GitHub.