Jack Weilage
I am a web developer with a love for elegant, performant solutions. By combining effective communication skills and a modern understanding of web standards, I build simple, light, and accessible websites.
Experience
Bellingham Public Schools - Substitute Paraeducator
May 2024 - Present
- Acted as a data entry specialist, indexing and validating ~10,000 employee records.
Education
Bellingham High School
Aug 2019 - Jun 2023
- Attended all computer science and programming courses available. Self-studied using online resources, documentation and hands-on practice when in-class options were exhausted.
- Created an actionable list of concerns relating to the Bellingham School District's websites through a month of deep analysis and investigation as a senior. The list, containing accessibility, performance, and internationalization issues, was presented to the CTO and assistant director of Educational Technology, receiving high praise.
Whatcom Community College
Sep 2023 - Present
- Currently attending classes full-time, working towards an AAS-T Cybersecurity degree.
- Planning to transfer to Western Washington University via the Cybersecurity Transfer program.
Projects
- Built and deployed a website displaying realtime data related to events in and around Whatcom County.
- Identified a need for more comprehensive developer tooling for Mapbox in Svelte, and created svelte-mapbox as a thin, ergonomic wrapper around mapbox-gl-js.
- Source code and more details can be found on my GitHub at github.com/jack-weilage/whatcom-live.
- Designed and built the smallest and fastest date manipulation library in JavaScript. Chronosis weighs in at under 1kb, while performing almost all tasks faster than any other library (even date-fns!).
- Source code can be found on my GitHub at github.com/jack-weilage/chronosis and documentation can be found at chronosis.js.org.