Who is Julian?
I'm Julian! I enjoy technology, solving problems, the outdoors and big adventures.
I started the path towards software on a very different road. In high school I decided I wanted to pursue a career in business, thinking it's the best way to reach personal freedom. When I started to make my own pet sitting business, I realized a business without a website basically doesn't exist -- so I created my own, and I was hooked.
I spent the next few years teaching myself HTML, CSS, Programming, and JavaScript in-depth, and enrolled in Farmingdale State College for the Computer Programming major, expecting graduation at the end of Spring 2021. I regularly helped teach my colleagues web development concepts and lead groups into doing hackathon projects. We'd even won some prizes!
In the past, I've worked as an instructor for Nucamp Coding Bootcamp where I would teach full stack development to students of all ages, Suffolk County Web Masters where I made updates to 30+ client websites using diverse tech stacks, Railinc where I developed a new application for companies to track their railroad shipments.
My latest experience at LexisNexis had me migrating legacy technologies into a new tech stack. I helped bring forth Lexis+AI, the "hallucination-proof" legal chat assistant.
Outside of code, you'll probably find me hiking in nature with my wife or snuggling with my two cats, Simba and Oliver.