Hi, my name is Jason and I have been programming for a while.
I've worked on a lot of fun and interesting projects, as you will see if you read on, and have now graduated from Penn State University ↗! If my experience sounds like something you are hiring for or know someone who is hiring for, please 
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Since way back in senior year of highschool, when I decided I would learn JavaScript to make a minecraft bot ↗. Then I learned TypeScript so I could make APIs ↗ for myself and others. Around the same time I also started learning Java because if you're already making minecraft bots you may as well start making minecraft mods ↗ and contributing to Java tools↗ for JavaScript minecraft bots. Since then, I learned Kotlin, which is the TypeScript to JavaScript in the Java world, and continued making minecraft mods ↗ and minecraft plugins ↗. Around this time, I took a look around the programming landscape and tried out Gleam, which is a growing programming language that compiles to Erlang, or in my use case JavaScript, for more minecraft mods ↗.
After that, I started looking into other things which I found interesting, like data presentation formats and databases and stumbled upon Trustfall. Trustfall is, according to the github README, "A query engine for any combination of data sources. Query your files and APIs as if they were databases!". And that's what I did for a while, until I wanted to expand the project even more, being a programmer myself, I created a github adapter ↗ and contributed back to the original project ↗ under the guidance of the extremely patient and helpful maintainer.
Later, I took my Rust knowledge on the road when I got interested in learning about linters and a brand new project at that time, OXC, which describes itself as, "A collection of high-performance JavaScript tools.". I found this premise interesting, and I also found Rust to be a great language for new contributors to a project, so I spent a good amount of time contributing to this project too ↗.
For more of my open source contributions, see !