I’m an Android developer 💻 and dancer 🎶.
I love the work I do at Buffer on their Android team. I enjoy learning about new things, and applying them to my work. You can keep up to date on the things I've been working on by subscribing to my newsletter 📬.
You can often find me at conferences exchanging information with others as a speaker 🎤. Come say hello if you spot me at one!
In addition to speaking at conferences, I also write for Ray Wenderlich ✏️. I'm a part of their Android team, helping to educate people in Android and Kotlin.
Dance is another important part of my life. I’ve taken classes in various styles since kindergarten, but these days I spend most my time taking tap classes 🎵.
While studying at Hope College, I also started getting involved in dance technology and dance production 🎭. I had a couple projects that worked together with a dancer and an Xbox Kinect, and did a significant amount of lighting design. Ask me about them, I love talking about it!
When I’m not out doing these things, you can find me in my home base of Chicago 🏙️ with my partner, Tyler. In my spare time, I enjoy playing board games with friends, or curled up at home with a good book, my cat, Peter Pan 😻, and hedgehog, Khoshekh 🦔.
The Kotlin stdlib has a lot of great extension functions. How can you use them in your Java code?
medium.com - Dec 3, 2018
Working remotely with a global team means I have a lot of flexibility with the structure of my day. It also means I have communication coming from multiple different directions, and from different time zones. How do I organize this, stay productive, and stay sane?
medium.com - Nov 9, 2018
www.raywenderlich.com - Sep 19, 2018
Some gesture actions are not accessible to people using screen readers. This is how we improved the accessibility of a feature we recently added.
overflow.buffer.com - Sep 5, 2018
Coming back to droidcon NYC for a second time was a great experience. Here's a recap of my time there.
medium.com - Aug 29, 2018