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Hey, there!

I'm Jason, a 26-year-old software engineer from central Ohio. I like making things and sharing them with others.

If you have a creative idea brewing, I'd love to help bring it to life!

Feel free to get in touch and let's chat about it.

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Are you a recruiter looking for a great hire?

Let me tell you what I can do for you and your company.

  • Design, develop, and deploy a production-ready, user-friendly, and WCAG-compliant website with a highly-modular and beautifully-designed React front-end.
  • Build and maintain a fully-functional, high-performance website back-end in C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python, integrating with database solutions like Postgres, MySQL, and SQL Server.
  • Lead, train, and mentor developers and business analysts on an ongoing basis, emphasizing the value of understanding, self-improvement, generosity, and kindness in every circumstance.
  • Document, explain, and teach processes and concepts in a digestible and maintainable manner across all levels of business, from the CEO to the developer to the customer, and everywhere in-between.
  • Isolate, treat, and eliminate bugs of all shapes and sizes across the stack while improving current methodologies and practices to reduce the likelihood of future regressions.

Are you an individual looking to build an app or website?

Let me tell you what I can do for you and your idea.

  • Plan, design, and develop your idea into a fully-working application or website, working alongside you every step of the way to ensure your vision is executed in whatever way you see it as easily and painlessly as possible.
  • Deploy and maintain your website, desktop application, or mobile application on an ongoing basis, ensuring quality updates, collaboration, and service, and never charging you more than you can afford to pay.
  • Explain and expose the inner workings of your website and application, teaching you how everything works and showing you the incredible potential and power of today's technology.
  • Brainstorm, build, and share ideas, designs, and processes with and alongside you throughout your application's lifetime and beyond - once you know me, you know me for life!

Let the work speak for itself...

Screen capture depicting a website titled Web Reporter with many check-boxes and buttons displayed on a white background

The Web Reporter application provides constituents an easy and customizable way to identify and collect information about every parcel within the county. See it for yourself!

Web Reporter

Franklin County Auditor's Office — Released February 24, 2026

The Web Reporter application provides constituents an easy and customizable way to identify and collect information about every parcel within the county.

Built using a .NET, React, TypeScript, and SQL Server tech stack, the application computes, joins, and retrieves data from across multiple databases and many millions of records. Using a unique LINQ dynamic expression builder crafted by hand, user queries are converted into safe, parameterized SQL queries to achieve maximum performance and customization.

I led the development team on this project. My responsibilities included developing the front-end and back-end for the application, designing and styling the front-end, building and deploying several databases, coordinating with other departments, and leading our development team towards solid standards and a working product.

Screen capture of a webpage titled Levy Estimator for the Franklin County Auditor

The Tax and Levy Estimator assists thousands of Franklin County constituents in calculating and reviewing their estimated property taxes. See it for yourself!

Tax and Levy Estimator

Franklin County Auditor's Office — Released September 9, 2025

The Tax and Levy Estimator application assists thousands of Franklin County constituents in calculating and reviewing their estimated property taxes.

Built using a .NET, React, TypeScript, and SQL Server tech stack, the application computes and retrieves data for half a million properties across the county using a modular service architecture that improves flexibility, reduces development effort, and boosts performance.

I led the development team on this project. My responsibilities were akin to those for Web Reporter - take a look at the entry above to see what I was responsible for!

Screen capture depicting a webpage with a table of data and information for property conveyances

The Conveyance application hosts property transfer and sale records for all of the parcels within Franklin County and provides this data to the public for auditing, verification, and data analysis purposes. See it for yourself!

Conveyance

Franklin County Auditor's Office — Released September 9, 2025

The Conveyance application hosts property transfer and sale records for all of the parcels within Franklin County and provides this data to the public for auditing, verification, and data analysis purposes.

Built using a .NET, React, TypeScript, and SQL Server tech stack, the application computes and retrieves data for half a million properties across the county in a manner not dissimilar to the Tax and Levy Estimator application.

I led the development team on this project. My responsibilities were akin to those for Web Reporter and the Tax and Levy Estimator - take a look at the entries above to see what I was responsible for!

Screen capture of the home page of the Mount Vernon Nazarene University website

Mount Vernon Nazarene University is a Christian, non-profit university located in Mount Vernon, Ohio. See it for yourself!

MVNU

Mount Vernon Nazarene University — From July 14, 2022 to July 28, 2023

Mount Vernon Nazarene University is a Christian, non-profit university located in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Early on, I managed and maintained their original website platform using a legacy, proprietary content management suite (CMS). Later, I spearheaded an initiative to migrate from this older, unsupported CMS to a flexible WordPress instance.

I co-led the development and design process for this project alongside our creative director and a team of interns under my guidance and supervision. I was responsible for managing the website content, building integrations between external vendors and services, improving and upgrading data management and user experience, coordinating with vendors, and performing system administration for our on-premises server suite.

A business logo depicting flowers at the edges of a diamond with the text "Vita Nova Boutique" displayed in the center

Vita Nova Boutique was a fashion forward online boutique hoping to bring you new, unique, and beautiful designs.

Vita Nova Boutique

Vita Nova Boutique — From July 14, 2022 to July 28, 2023

Vita Nova Boutique was a fashion forward online boutique with a mission to bring you new, unique, and beautiful designs.

I built and maintained their storefront and mobile application, starting on the Ecwid e-commerce platform and eventually moving to Shopify, where we received awards for highest user retention, page performance, and engagement metrics across thousands of leading Shopify stores.

I joined with Vita Nova as their founding lead developer. Beyond managing the storefront, I was also responsible for implementing a point-of-sale system, loyalty program, and back-end service integration for mobile purchases and user data.

Vita Nova Boutique closed down in September of 2021 after nearly five years of strong business. I left Vita Nova in March of 2020, a little prior to their closing, to more deeply pursue my college education.

So, what do you think?

If you like what you see, I'd love to get in touch with you and talk shop. Feel free to reach out when it's convenient for you.

I look forward to making your ideas come to life!

Let's talk!