I’m always up for exciting new things. Email me at jlinwood (at) gmail.com to reach me.

Some of my most recent experiences:

• Building an open-source toolkit for accelerating web application development with LLMs (ZapCircle)
• Created and led in-person training workshops for early career technical employees, organized around real business problems - stakeholder management, presentation skills, technical requirements gathering, and solution engineering
• Taught an in-person workshop on back end development for front end developers at Connect.Tech in Atlanta in 2023
• Interviewed customers for technical case studies, and then published them on our web site for marketing
• Acted as the technical product owner/code reviewer for a scrum team working on a Wagtail CMS/Django application
• Led an intiative to modernize Twilio’s large collection of open source example projects, got this done well under the deadline
• Did a revamp of a startup’s technical documentation site and expanded it out to support multiple technology
• Taught an online class in Python, Pandas, Jupyter, and machine learning for the federal government
• Built augmented reality cross-platform mobile applications for the national parks with Unity - Wildspot and Jenny Lake Explorer
• Taught an online corporate class on Javascript fundamentals
• Mentored in-person data science/machine learning group projects for early career technical employees
• Built several iOS apps in Swift for startups, working with product managers, designers, and back-end developers - everything from pre-seed to Series C
• Wrote 250 page book about locations and maps with iOS and Swift, published by Apress
• Created a new section of an API vendor’s documentation web site to cover a common set of challenges for developers
• Coached teams of early career software developers with a Java/Angular/Spring Boot development project with agile sprints
• Built a SaaS in the fitness space with Ruby on Rails 6 and React