About Me
💻 I started coding to help my son make games with Scratch.
After teaching myself HTML / CSS and WordPress, I moved on to iOS apps.
I recently completed a full-stack software engineering bootcamp in September of 2022 focused on JavaScript, React and Ruby on Rails. I now work as a fulltime developer while continuing my education by building projects, going to meetups, and collaborating with other devs in my free time.
I’m currently learning the MERN stack while continuing to focus on JavaScript fundamentals with apps like:
- Rock Solid Skulls (E-commerce store)
- Sure Shot! (Basketball Tracker)
- Color Mask Morph (SVG / Image mask and color picker)
- Life Music (Mood Generated Song Playlists)
- Fade-In-On-Scroll
2023 Goals:
💼 Update my portfolio site using new coding and design skills
🏠 Design and create a separate personal website
🌎 Attend meetups, conferences and hackathons
Meetups:
- Tampa Bay Dev Group - every 3rd Thursday
- South of the Bay Dev Group - 3/15
Discord Communities:
- #dearjuniordev
- Commit Your Code
Conferences:
- B-Sides Tampa Cybersecurity 4/1 ✅
- Google I/O '23 5/10 ✅
- Microsoft Build 5/23-5/24 ✅
- WWDC ✅
- TEDx 9/29
Speak on tech panels ✅
- SCF Coding Academy 2/22
- LWRBA 10/25
Host a Workshop
- BBM 6/29/23 ✅
🖥 Build a network of freelance clients
- 3/5
🤝 Collaborate on an open source project
🤝 Contribute to a forked GitHub repo ✅
🏆 Finish Google IT, AWS, ̶N̶o̶d̶e̶.̶j̶s̶, and React certification courses
🤜🤛 Find a mentor ✅
☕ Schedule Coffee Chats ✅
📝 Continue blogging about my experiences as a developer
- 2023 blog count = 18
Have a article published ✅
- POCIT 3/29/23 People of Color in Tech
Interests
📲 🖼 🎧 I love technology, art, and music. I'm interested in AI, blockchain, ML, AR / VR and how they intersect with the future of creative experiences.
[email protected]
Reach me at:- visit my website to see more projects and learn more about me: jawaragordon.com
📚 Blog posts
- Ready Player React: How to Build a Video Game with JavaScript — Part 3
- Ready Player React: How to Build a Video Game with JavaScript — Part 2
- Ready Player React: How to Build a Video Game with JavaScript — Part 1
- Choose Your Own Adventure: NEXT.js App vs. Pages Router
- Parents Who Code: An Open (Love) Letter