This is my personal website. Currently it is built using Gatsby with WordPress as a headless CMS, and the styling is done using Tailwind CSS.
Always expecting to spend my career doing some form of writing, I studied English literature in college. Shortly after I learned about content writing and blogging, which seemed like the best way to make money with writing. I quickly became interested in SEO, and began working in the digital marketing industry. I had built some websites and learned web development basics as a child, but interacting with them daily reignited my interest, and I knew I wanted to be building websites, not just optimizing them.
In 2020 I had an opportunity to take part in the full stack coding bootcamp at University of Denver. It was exciting to finally learn how the content I wrote in a Content Management System made it to the front end of a website. The bootcamp was focused on MERN stack web development, and I was attracted to React because of its potential regarding site performance, including Core Web Vitals. My interests in SEO and building websites were merging closer together, and I loved figuring out how to implement technical SEO in the context of a modern website.
I've always had a love for democratization of knowledge, and therefore attracted to open source software projects that make the internet increasingly accessible for businesses, publishers, and everyday people. Therefore I was naturally interested in projects like WordPress, which I encountered daily as a digital marketer, and Gatsby, which has long been laser focused on giving developers tools to build performant front ends.
This website is built with Gatsby and manages content with headless WordPress. On this blog I enjoy writing about topics related to headless WordPress and SEO. I also use it to share portfolio projects in web development. Feel free to get in touch with me through the contact page.