👋 Hi, I’m Garrett

A former jazz musician turned full-stack programmer hungry to deploy my creative skills within a new field.

In many ways, I think the aspects of my personality that made me excel musically are the same that drove me towards the world of programming. A huge part of studying music is the process of exploring new systems, learning the various rules, and seeing how they relate to what you already know. I've found programming to be remarkably similar, with the many frameworks and languages akin to different scales, chords, songs, or ensembles.

I strongly believe that my creative, curious demeanor, and ability to flexibly integrate into a team is of value to any future employer.

Technical Skills

Projects

Noodlr 2.0 | Live Demo | Repo

TLDR: Noodlr with a facelift.

While I was happy with the logic of the original Noodlr, the site had an underwhelming UI. After spending some time studying the front end with greater depth, I rebuilt the project from scratch.

Noodlr 2.0 is built with 100% functional components. It utilizes custom hooks, custom Context Providers, react-spring and more. Currently a front-end only web-app, though a fleshed out back end is in the works.

Noodlr | Live Demo | Frontend | Backend

An online step sequencer allowing users to experiment with creating their own music.

Built with a Rails API backend and a React Redux Frontend. Utilizes Tone.js to programmatically generate music.

JavaSketcher | Live Demo | Repo

A fun single page application that lets users express themselves creatively through drawing. Drawings can be saved locally and/or uploaded to the server.

Built with a Rails API, HTML, and Javascript.

Breadbook | Live Demo | Repo

An expansion on Sourdough Tracker, BreadBook incorporates social media functionality, allowing users to browse the recipes and ingredients of other users (ranked by usage or popularity if desired). Users may comment on, like, and bookmark various recipes as well.

Built with Ruby on Rails.

Sourdough Tracker | Live Demo | Repo

While making sourdough, like any process utilizing fermentation, there exists natural variation due to temperature, humidity, starter strength, etc. Sourdough Tracker is an online utility that helps users log actions throughout the process, tracking the time, what was done, and leaving space for any additional notes.

Built with Sinatra

Links

LinkedIn | Blog