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Location: Seattle, WA

Age: 48

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Blue-Gray

Status: Married

Orientation: Gay

Height: 5'11"

Weight: 160lbs.

Job: Lead Software Engineer

Instagram: dangardg

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Porfolio: camelbird.com

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I love to program, design and build for the web, and solve problems in clever ways. I enjoy digging into how things work, trying new tools, and iterating until something feels right. I'm into Bluetooth audio too—pairing and what actually sounds good on the go—and lately I've been using Raycon bone-conduction headphones, I can listen to my tunes without blocking out the world pretty cool tech.

I'm a big fan or Mark Rober's Youtube channel and his Crunch Labs site. It's really fun to see what creative and sometime silly engineering projects he comes up with. I love how he's making engineering learning fun and accessible. I even signed up for his Hack Pack subscription box, can't wait to make my first robot. I also grabbed an Arduino Kit to play around with.

I'm also into AI-assisted development tools, I use Cursor IDE for exploration, refactors, and boilerplate when it saves time, while still making sure I understand the code it generates, and the reasoning behind it. I like spec-driven design: nail the requirements and interfaces first, then implement and test against that contract so the codebase stays intentional.

GitHub Spec Kit fits that mindset: it's GitHub's toolkit for spec-driven development with AI—structuring how you capture requirements, break work down, and keep specs and code aligned instead of drifting.