DJ Drakos sitting on a couch, staring intently at something on their laptop

Hi, Iā€™m DJ Drakos!

Iā€™m a Software Developer based in sunny Portland, Oregon.

I love bringing well-crafted, accessible applications to life
using modern, scalable web technologies and design patterns.

featured projects

Local Clock

Live Site | github

Toolkit: React.js | styled-components | Radix | Semantic HTML5 | CSS | Session Storage | APIs: IP Geolocation, Programming Quotes, World Time

A responsive, accessibility-forward React.js app that renders a dynamic UI based on the time of day. I go into more details of the development, including creating a reuseable fluid grid component and incorporating an accessible collapsible panel using Radix primitives on the repo README.

toolkit

Languages

JavaScript ES6 / TypeScript / HTML5 / CSS3 / PHP / Python / SQL

Technologies

React.js / Node.js / WordPress / Docker / AWS

Design

Adobe Creative Suite / Sketch / Figma

Practices

Agile / CI/CD / Pair Programming / RESTful APIs / Test-Driven Development / Version Control

career

As a kid, I coded for fun, but didn't see a career in it. So, naturally, I went to art school instead.

I eventually found my place leading a team of tireless, brilliant humans to revive the lost craft of letterpress printing at modern industry scale. The work demanded constant learning, ingenuity and reinvention.

After ten years, I was ready to hang up my apron, hand off the passwords to my hand-rolled MRP tools, and return to code. In April 2021, I enrolled in Alchemy Code Lab to study fullstack software development, then was hired onto the instruction team after graduation.

I worked across the stack as a part of the nimble team at Kickstand to migrate an enterprise vendor management system from Django to Typescript, React, and Chakra.ui ahead of its international launch.

I'm currently working with Variable West to expand their web platform as the organization moves its primary content pipelines away from social media.

Have a project idea? Just want to chat? Get in touch! I'd love to hear from you.

colophon

Portfolio v0.1.1

Best viewed on desktop at full screen. Mobile version looks pretty good too, though. Built with React v18, styled-components, and Radix Primitives, deployed on Netlify. The icon sticky scroll is a hand-rolled React hook that uses the magic of CSS and the Intersection Observer API.

Typographic direction aided by Type Scale.

Icon Credits: Weather | GitHub | LinkedIn | Email

šŸ–¤ to the Radious crew for the bio pic and workspace for the day