I have deep web development experience dating back to my first website on Geocities in 1999. I became interested in programming at an early age, and am a self-taught programmer who has always been driven to learn more and do more to see what web technologies are capable of (a lot!). I love to see what interesting and useful things I can create, but I also like to give back. I have deep roots in open source work with many popular and widely used projects (frisby.js, phpdotenv, and valitron, among others). Community involvement and teaching is another passion of mine, through efforts like co-founding the Techlahoma Foundation (a 501-3(c) non-profit) and a local JavaScript user group. I also enjoy blogging, and speaking to share my knowledge with others.