Web and Mobile Developer

I am a web and mobile developer with over 15 years of experience building secure and performant systems for the web and mobile. A lot of my recent work has been around custom analytics, UX measurement, AB testing and performance optimization.

I live and work in West Virginia with my wife and my son.


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A More Civilized API

TDLR: I built an API that returns quotes from Star Wars: The Clone Wars as either JSON or RSS. You can find it at wisdom.ferrell.rocks. Despite my best efforts, I love a good holiday programming project. Mastowatch, arguably the biggest solo development undertaking of my…

Emily

I would like to introduce you all to someone named Emily Matejovitz. Emily was born on June 19, 2008. She loved kids, and especially babies. She was from Michigan and had plans to study at Ferris State University, with the goal of becoming an ultrasound…

Tapestry Connector for WordPress

Thumbnail is a screenshot from the Tapestry landing page. TLDR: I built a Tapestry connector that reads the WordPress REST API. Download it here. I finally built a Tapestry connector! Like all good projects, this little guy was born out of necessity. A local news…

Our Children Deserve Better

As the parent of a perfect, beautiful little boy with autism, I'm posting this ahead of this afternoon's press conference. If you take this administration's claims at face value, which you absolutely should not, there are only two plausible explanations for holding the "Tylenol causes…

The Sword, The Funyuns and The Trophy

I’ve talked about this a little bit before, especially in the context of holidays, but the amount of time my dad and I spent together over the course of my life was kind of V-shaped. We did a lot together—relatively speaking—when I was just starting…