me

👋 Hi, I'm TJ Maynes.

Software Developer & XP Coach

👨‍💻 What I do for work

I build web experiences at Kohl's Technology Center using TypeScript/React. Also, I'm an Extreme Programming (XP) coach helping grow XP practitioners across Kohl's Technology org.

I 💖 product development, developer enablement 🤝, and automating the hard things 🤖.

🔌 What services I offer

Feel free to contact me if you need consultation on the following:

  • Fullstack (Typescript), agile product development
  • Scaling Extreme Programming (XP) practices within your organization
  • Designing, developing, and managing automated solutions such as CI/CD pipelines and writing test suites in legacy codebases.

👨‍🚀 Some projects I'm proud of

  • Image Analyzer - a NextJS app that allows users to analyze images using MobileNet (via TensorflowJS), image descriptions from ChatGPT, and hosted on Cloudflare Pages
  • Developer Workstation - Ansible playbooks for managing my developer workstations across Macos & Ubuntu
  • Career - My resume & CV written in LaTeX

🚀 What I'm learning

I'm learning how to build AI assistants using local-first LLMs. Also, learning how to compose techno music using VCV Rack (modular synthesis) 🎛️.

🌎 Where I'm coding from

Rochester, Minnesota (Central Timezone)