Russell Dempsey

I am a Software Engineer, Web Developer, programmer, coder, father, dog trainer, poet, handy-man, gamer, jack-of-all-trades, open-source contributor, freelancer, and life-long learner.

My passions other than Software Engineering are: Dog and Owner training, Artificial Intelligence, ML, Math, Education, Finance, and data-science-love sprinkled atop all of them. It's also important to note that I approach life with an attitude of continuous improvement. I greatly value effort and believe that mistakes are inevitable and that any aspect of anything can be improved in some way. We may not know what, why, how, or when, but there is a way, and the search for that way is usually incredibly fulfilling.

I think that process improvement is my ultimate specialty.

I have over 20 years of development experience spanning multiple disciplines, with over 15 years of industry experience as a full-time, full-stack software engineer. I have fallen in love with JavaScript on both sides of the browser over the past 25 years, and with TypeScript over the past 10. Still, I also enjoy automation, scripting, dev ops, version control systems, minor Linux hacking, and general CLI scripting. I am eager and capable of catching and keeping up with just about anything else you throw at me, though probably a little rusty.

If something needs to be done, I try to do it myself at least once. Mostly, this is because I'm endlessly curious about how things work, but also because I'm frugal.