Hi there ✋🏽, Nerando here.

Former middle school science & literacy teacher turned software engineer. I build frontends, write about what I learn, and talk about it at conferences. Motto: Ship, then sharpen.

What I'm doing now

• 💼 Software Engineer (Front End) at Hygiena, building life sciences SaaS (Vue 3, Nuxt, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS)
• 🧵 Consultant at TechTile LLC, a boutique development studio & consulting practice
• 🎤 Speaking on Vue, frontend development, my take on best practices for developers, and how developers learn. Slides at slides.developingdvlpr.com
• ✍️ Writing at developingdvlpr.com/blog, including the A Clearer Vue series
• 🎓 Studying Software Engineering at WGU
• 📊 Working on holding myself accountable at IsNerandoDoneYet

Stack

• Core: Vue 3, Nuxt 3, TypeScript, Pinia, Tailwind CSS, Astro
• Data & backend: Supabase, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Node.js, Ruby on Rails
• Testing & tooling: Cypress, Git, Azure DevOps, Jira, Sentry
• Deploy: Netlify, Vercel
• Practices: Accessibility, CI/CD, TDD, documentation

Previously

• Junior Software Developer (Vue) at Nexcor Food Safety Technologies
• Full-stack developer on a React/React Native + Node/MongoDB mortgage platform at Equity Prime Mortgage
• QA / Junior Software Engineer building JavaScript ad tech for Cartoon Network & Adult Swim
• Mentor at Thinkful and Lighthouse Labs; co-organizer of freeCodeCamp Atlanta since 2018
• Part of the team that won the 2018 ATLC3 civic hacking challenge and donated the full $40,000 prize to disability and tech-education charities

Ask me about

Community building, learning how to learn, Vue/Nuxt, and teaching intro web dev.

Find me

😄 He/Him · ⚡ Fun fact: I still love Legos and reading education research.