My name is LeAlan Carter and I am 38 years old, married, and have 3 children. I live and work out of Helena, Alabama which is a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.

Since grade school, I have always been interested in programming. Over the years, I have accumulated a wide range of skills in web development and web design.

Beginning in 2013 I started Bearded Squid doing small websites and web applications on a freelance or contract basis. A lot of my early sites were built with jQuery, HTML, and CSS. I also did several SquareSpace and WordPress projects when a CMS was needed.

In 2016 I took a full-time remote Web Developer position with a startup called Remine LLC. As one of 3 developers on the project we created a SAAS Real Estate application for MLSes and Realtors. We built out many different versions of the application and full features in the three and a half years I was a developer there.

My responsibilites with Remine included team and feature leading, front and back end development, and interviewing and screening new hires.

In the spring of 2020 I started as a Senior Software Engineer as the the pricipal Frontend Engineer with Season Health. I have architected and built out the frontend application for both desktop and mobile using React with Typescript, Redux with Sagas, generated API types and functions from swagger docs, React testing library, CSS modules, and Cypress for end to end browser testing.

Music

I have played guitar since I was 16 years old and played with a band called Creature Camp for over 5 years. One of our accomplishments was winning a national battle of the bands contest through Zzounds.com, an online musical equipment supplier.

Gaming

When I am not busy working or doing something with my children, I enjoy running gaming servers and doing the occasional gaming. Me and a friend built a gaming server that hosts servers for Ark Survival, Atlas, 7 Days to Die, and many other games, while also maintaining and working with the community for those servers.