Ethan Siegel

I've been programming professionally as a software engineer for about 5 years, and have been messing around with computers since I was a teenager. I love building software and if you need help architecting your application, setting up your project, or refactoring your codebase, I'd be happy to help.

Recently, I've spent a lot of time setting up full stack applications in different cloud environments (AWS and GCP) and am very familiar with many of the services. Before that, I spent a lot of time in the frontend using React, before that AngularJS, and before that... jQuery!

On the backend, I've worked extensively with Python Flask applications although I've also worked on backends written in Java using Spring Boot and NodeJS. On the database side, I've very familiar with MongoDB, postgreSQL and other SQL flavors, and enough about Elasticsearch to be get things going.

I see programming as an artisan craft, kind of like woodworking. Sometimes, especially when setting up infrastructure pieces, it can be a bit more like plumbing.

Also, if you're just beginning your web development journey and would like to have some longer sessions to go through concepts more thoroughly, please let me know. I can give a discounted rate. I'd be happy to help walk through in more detail:

• HTML and building web pages. What is it? How does it work?
• CSS and setting up basic styles for a web page
• Javascript basics: functions, variables, control flow etc
• Javascript and React fundamentals: how does it work together. What's going on under the hood
• More React fundamentals: setting up a build chain, functional and class components, state management

Or if you would like to dive into some more detail on other topics...

• API development with Flask: GET/POST/PUT request handling, query parameters, database connection
• Deployment architecture: setting up a proxy server with nginx, setting up blue/green deploy architecture, rolling deploys, automating dev-ops
• AWS/GCP application architecture

I prefer using mac/linux.