I am a full time web developer but having been an artist my whole life, I am looking to branch out more into graphic design professionally.

At work, I do mostly Angular with C#/.Net Core on newer projects. I'm newer to Angular, so I'm still learning, but I feel like I'm getting better with each Medium article and StackOverflow post I read, so that's something. I'm pretty sure that our other dev who works in the Angular project wishes I'd quit reorganizing the project as I learn more, but that is an unfortunate side effect of learning how things were done wrong when the project was built by my predecessor.

I handle most of my team's front end work, since it's kind of my wheelhouse. I'm very comfortable with CSS, and I've learned to love SASS. I work a lot with Bootstrap, and my biggest setback in this department is the fact that I don't have direct access to our CDN. I'm working on that.

While front end is my comfort zone, I'm still a full stack developer, and I've learned a lot over the last year or two. My SQL skills are still negligible compared to our back-end focused devs, but I can do an inner join without having to check a sticky note cheat sheet on my monitor, so that's progress.

In my spare time, I'm trying to teach myself more about design. I have found that while I have the eye for it, I don't have the knowledge base yet. My newest discoveries were the meanings of words like kerning and microframing, which kept popping up in articles.

Basically, I'm constantly learning.

My reading list is constantly growing, and recommendations are always welcome!

Finished: The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Stop Decorating the Fish: Which Problems to Ignore and Which Problems Really Matter

Current Audiobook: The Toyota Kata: Managing People For Improvement, Adaptiveness, and Superior Results Next Up: The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

Current Book: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship Next Up: Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow

I'm always looking for new sources of information as I try to learn how to do a better job of improving myself, my code, and my team.

Please feel free to reach out! Kate