About Me

I'm Conner, a Texan Software Engineer who strives to build and share great software with the world

I usually go by "IroncladDev" on the internet

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Stats

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  • Nationality: American
  • Type: Asian
  • Age: 19
  • Religion: Christian
  • Language:
    • Spoken: English (American)
    • Written: Markdown (American)
    • Programming: Typescript (American)
  • Hobbies:
    • Jiu-Jitsu
    • Firearms Training
    • Airsoft
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Timeline

1/8 2016 ┃ 2017 ┃ 2018 ┃ 2019 ┃ 2020 ┃ 2021 ┃ 2022 ┃ 2023 ┃ 2024 ┃ 2025 ┃

2016 - 2018

  • Discovered Programming on Khan Academy
  • Built numerous small browser-based games with Processing.js
  • Learned the basics of HTML, CSS, and DOM manipulation with JQuery

2018 - 2020

  • Learned the fundamentals of HTML/CSS from Freecodecamp
  • Learned how to make Fullstack applications with Flask and Node from Codecademy
  • Built some HTML/CSS/JS + Flask/Node fullstack projects that didn't get much traction
  • Rolled my own auth various times

2020 - 2022

  • Found Replit and used it to share and host my projects
  • Continued to build various small web projects and browser-based games with HTML/CSS/JS
  • Participated in Replit's first official game jam
  • Applied for an internship at Replit (I flunked the interview)

Jan 2022 - Aug 2022

  • Got an internship at Saasbox
  • Learned Next.js and React
  • Built various small web projects with Next.js
  • Joined Replit's Community Moderation team
  • Did some contract work on Anti-Abuse tools for Replit's Trust and Safety team
  • Learned Typescript
  • Built some Next.js + Typescript projects

Aug 2022 - Aug 2023

  • Joined Replit as a Support Engineer
    • Scaffolded, prototyped, built, and improved anti-abuse tools
    • Built multiple internal support tools
    • Redesigned and wrote large portions of the Replit Docs
    • Actively maintained the open source Extensions API Client ↗
    • Eventually got fired for multiple HR violations (got too political on twitter)
  • Attended the Bitcoin++ conference for the first time
  • Built some viral AI/Langchain projects around the release of OpenAI's text-davinci-003

Nov 2023 - Dec 2023

  • Joined Fedi as a Frontend Software Engineer
    • Prototyped multiple small websites that interact with the Fedi API
    • Wrote a large portion of the Fedi Documentation
    • Performed extinsive work on the Fedi App and PWA
    • Indepentently built major features in the Fedi App
    • Traveled the world to attend large bitcoin-related conferences with the Fedi team
  • Switched from VSC*de to Neovim

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

  • Attended multiple tech conferences around the world
  • Went from being an introvert to a more outgoing person
  • Grew a large audience on X / Twitter
  • Built various web projects with Next.js, Tailwind, and Framer Motion
  • Started contributing to various open source projects

Jan 2025 - Jul 2025

  • Started streaming on X and Twitch
  • Redesigned my website and rebranded
  • Migrated from Next/Tailwind to Astro/CSS/JS
  • Launched WebTUI