Jared Clarke
Greater Seattle Area
Summary
Former in-home caregiver turned aspiring software developer and designer, fluent in HTML, CSS, SVG, JavaScript, and design applications like Sketch and Adobe XD. Literate in Go and Scheme. Teaching myself C.
Experience
In-Home Caregiver
- (7 years)
Provided in-home, palliative care to my grandmother. Tasks included bathing, toiletries, sorting medications, meal preparation, driving, answering phone calls, writing letters, managing finances, and talking to doctors. In 2023, I moved her into assisted living. Tasks remained the same, although I was then able to take breaks from work.
Night Janitor
- (2 years, 4 months)
Cleaned sinks, toilets, locker rooms, basketball courts, weight rooms, and tennis lounges. Managed the health and safety of evening patrons by ensuring the proper use of equipment.
Education
The Evergreen State College — Bachelor of Arts - BA, English language and literature, general
Skills
Taught myself how to program using web technologies. Used skills to build web portfolio, jaredclarke.dev, which is comprised of four projects:
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A four-function calculator, which I built and rebuilt with a handwritten lexer, parser, evaluator, and error handler.
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A parallax animation that I built with JPEG and PNG image files, CSS keyframes, CSS transforms, and the Document object model. Compressed image files with a command-line program, which I built with the Go standard image library.
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A JavaScript library, Luka.js, which provides variable-arity, functional replacements for a handful of arithmetic operators.
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A pattern-matching and parsing library, Cursor, which I implemented in Scheme. Based on both Parsing Expression Grammars by Bryan Ford and the LPeg parsing machine by Roberto Ierusalimschy and Sérgio Medeiros.