me

πŸ‘‹ Hi, I'm TJ Maynes.

Software Developer & XP Coach

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» What I do for work

I build web experiences at Kohl's Technology Center using TypeScript/React. I'm an Extreme Programming (XP) coach helping grow more XP practitioners across Kohl's technology org. I'm mobbing with a local-first large-language model (LLM). Currently, using codellama.

I πŸ’– product development, developer enablement 🀝, and automating the hard things πŸ€–.

πŸ”Œ What services I offer

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

  • Fullstack (Typescript/Python), 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.

πŸ‘¨β€πŸš€ 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

πŸš€ What I'm learning

I'm learning how to build AI assistants using Python, LangChain, & Llama2 for domain-specific purposes. Also, learning how to compose techno music using VCV Rack (modular synthesis) πŸŽ›οΈ.

🌎 Where I'm coding from

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Rochester, Minnesota (Central Timezone)