I'm Grant.

I like to build.

TypeScript connoisseur. Animation aficionado. Frontend web, mostly React and Next.js. Cross-platform mobile with React Native. Backend with Node.js and Python. Have written an SQL query or two. Can wrangle the cloud when needed.

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Background & experience

My work history. From teaching calculus, to slinging code, to leading teams.
Oct. 2023 – Present
Staff Software Engineer @ Ramp
Full-stack web development using React and Python. Leading initiatives to streamline cardholder and admin workflows.
  • Led a team of fantastic engineers on the spend management frontend team.
  • Led the development of a new cardholder experience on web.
  • Overhauled the core of Ramp's card transaction web interfaces.
June 2022 – Oct 2023
VP of Engineering @ Formidable
Helping client engineering teams shine their brightest. Overseeing the development of open source software and community outreach.
  • Oversaw client projects and ensured client teams had what they needed to succeed.
  • Led client projects as an IC when needed.
  • Led the open source program at Formidable, maintaining existing projects and creating new ones based on client needs and ecosystem trends.
Nov. 2021 – June 2022
Sr. Software Engineer @ Coinbase
Full stack web and mobile on the Platform team. Built client SDKs and developer tools to help third parties integrate with Coinbase's fiat payment rails.
  • Helped bring Coinbase Pay to market, allowing partners to use Coinbase's fiat rails to on-ramp into the crypto ecosystem.
  • Development of Coinbase Pay SDKs for web and mobile.
Mar. 2021 – Nov. 2021
Sr. Software Engineer @ Formidable
Software consultant, building software and helping others build software better. Focus on front-end web and native mobile using primarily JS tooling.
  • Helped shape the foundation for Puma's global cross-platform mobile app.
  • Launched Android app for a major news organization using React Native, setting the foundation for them to later consolidate their iOS app into the same codebase.
  • Modernized a video game store's web presence, migrating to Next.js and TailwindCSS to improve performance and enable more sophisticated UI patterns.

Recent Posts

Some things I've written or tinked with lately.
September 2023
The power of minimal reproducible examples
The act of creating minimal reproducible examples will make you a better engineer, and drastically improve your chances of getting bugs fixed.
August 2023
The math of zooming in
The UI math of zooming in while preserving focal point, covering a Linear Algebra approach as well as a more intuitive approach of window mapping.
August 2023
My keyboard ergonomics journey as an engineer
My journey to find an ergonomic but productive keyboard for my software engineering purposes.
August 2023
Automated Open Graph Images with Astro
How to write a custom Astro route to generate Open Graph images for you based on your content.
August 2023
Keeping it tight with Astro.
For a couple years, my personal site has been built on Next.js. While in the process of adding a blog feature, I figured it was a good chance to migrate to Astro.
And more

Projects

Some open things I've worked on.
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Victory Native

High-performance charting library for React Native powered by Reanimated, Skia, Gesture Handler, and D3. Check it out.

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OSInt Raycast Extension

A Raycast extension for running Open Source Intelligence checks on a domain. Check it out.

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Groqd

A type and runtime safe query builder for the GROQ query language. Check it out.

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Clips

A screen recording app built with web technologies. Check it out.

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Mandelbruh

A mandelbrot fractal generator built with raw WebGL and Svelte. Check it out.

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React Native Zephyr

TailwindCSS-inspired styling library for React Native. View the docs.

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Personal PokeDex

Pokedex site built with Next.js static site generation powered by PokeAPI CSV data. Check it out.

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GifMaker

Browser-based FFMPEG video converter. Handy for turning .mov files into GIFs. Check it out.