I'm a design-minded software engineer in Seattle. I love finding stories in data, creating digital art, and exploring technologies to build intuitive, meaningful services.
Over the years, I've been an NPR radio researcher and host, a digital editor on a national fiction magazine, and co-founded an annual local music festival. I hold a PhD in English from the University of Cincinnati, where I taught creative writing, composition, and media studies.
This "mission control"-themed full-stack data visualization app provides richer insights into Submittable user data. Users can dig into their submissions, successes, expenses, and more with this clean, fun dashboard!
This collaborative music catalog lets writers share albums that inspires writing. Users update a Google Docs CMS and the Spotify API provides further recommendations.
Midi Collaboration App from agbales on Vimeo.
Play music online with friends! Real-time MIDI collaboartion with USB controllers. Custom 80s themed UI for a throwback feel.
I created a tutorial on Medium that was published with Hackernoon:
Revise the Internet! This Chrome extension allows you to update any web text or images directly on the page, with a click.
The Chronicling America API from the Library of Congress is combined with landmark lynching datasets from the past 100 years to offer insights into the history and narratives of lynching. Awarded second palce in National Endowment for the Humanities' challenge for the Library of Congress database Chronicling America API.
Litwolf is a full-stack React app that helps writers better understand the fiction marketplace. Literary award data was scraped from the web with Nokogiri, stored with MongoDB, and visualized with dataviz tools like Highcharts and Nivo.
I independetly created this custom API for ProPublica's "Spending at Trump Properties" data. It allows queries by date, property, spender, and other properties, returning infromation about political and taxpayer money spent at Trump Properties since the beginning of his presidential campaign.
Annotation Genius allows you to add Genius-style markup to web documents! Annotated sections are wrapped in spans with id's that correspond to a user-supplied JSON object. It's fast, simple, and comes ready with custom CSS.
Transforming Cincinnati Open Data into simple and interactive maps in order to educate the public about citizen complaints against the police department.
A custom SVG map I created in Illustrator helps residents locate their district.
Pairing the New York Times and Google Books APIs to create a visually engaging best sellers list. The returned ISBN numbers from the NYTimes best Sellersare used to query the Google Books API and return cover images that are paired with each listings.
The tutorial I created was published on Medium with Free Code Camp.
This project scrapes one city’s bridge data from a table on BridgeReports.com. It then uses links within that table to scrape associated pages. The resulting data is converted to JSON and used to populate a Google Map.
The tutorial I created was published on Medium with Free Code Camp.
This project comes out of a lecture I gave at Ada Developers Academy in Seattle. I created this terminal game with a CSV and a few gems to illustrate Ruby's CSV library methods and ther terminal's potential.
You can read more in this extended tutorial I published with Free Code Camp.
Populating Google Maps with the rarely viewed data about roadkill pickup in Cincinnati.
Clicking the various icons reveals text from the report. You'll find it varies from matter of fact to oddly personal.
Animal icons custom made with Adobe Illustrator, some from tracings and others from scratch.
I completed my Front End Development certification with Free Code Camp. That learning included a variety of projects including this Simon Game:
I'm a software developer at Substantial, a digital product studio in Capitol Hill, Seattle. I work closely with designers, developers, and product managers to imagine and build creative products that make a lasting impact.
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I'm a contributor on Ganbreeder, a collaborative artistic platform that uses BigGAN models to connect artists and explore high complexity spaces. After corresponding with project founder Joel Simon, I began contributing new features to make image creation more intuitive and granular.
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I was hired to transform The University of Cincinnati's Ellison Collection -- a rich database of literary readings at the Langsam Library-- into a public-facing, serachable site.
I standardized CSV data, built an API, and produced a clean, intuitive UI. The work involved technical problem-solving with Ruby, Javascript, PHP, HTML, and CSS. I also produced photos, logos, and site copy to appeal to both students and community members.
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I joined American Short Fiction, a nationally acclaimed fiction magazine based in Austin, Texas, in 2014. I reviewed submissions and helped launch a podcast. In 2015, I became the Digital Editor, taking on responsibilities with design, promotion, and further editorial review.
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I worked with KHPCO to create and host a new website. The Hospice organization helps coordinate and inform individual Hospice branches, so they needed a way to provide information to the general public and private members.
For this, I built minimal public-facing info pages and a quick login for members who frequently visit for updates, policie changes, files, and newsletters.
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