JACEGALLOWAY
I build web apps, mobile apps, and AI-powered products end to end — from clean React interfaces to resilient Node.js services.
Jace
Galloway
I've been taking computers apart and writing code since I was a kid. It started with video games and the machines that ran them: by sixteen I was building my own PCs, and for years I ran a computer repair and custom gaming rig business on the side. That hardware obsession pulled me toward software. I taught myself HTML, CSS and LAMP stacks, got comfortable in the terminal, built websites for anyone who asked, and even spent a stretch doing QA on Sony's MLB The Show.
My first career was in business and marketing, but it never stopped being technical. I spent most of those years programming CRMs to automate marketing campaigns: email, text messages, internal and external communications, all of it wired up and running without a human in the loop. Automating everyone else's workflows made it obvious that what I really wanted was to build the software itself, so I went to The Ohio State University for a full-stack development education and made the switch to software development professionally.
Today I build web and mobile applications end to end: React, Next.js and React Native on the front, Node, Express and PostgreSQL or MongoDB on the back, TypeScript throughout. My work ranges from a field-service platform that technicians use every day to consumer mobile apps, ecommerce storefronts and a native macOS utility. The projects below show what that looks like in practice. I'm always up for talking about a development role or a project you need built.
GitHub
Live from my public repos
Recent commits
Projects
Books
This is a section for the books I've read that I think are relevant to prompt & AI Engineering. I have also included a X conversation thread that explains why I chose the categories of books that I have here.
Over the last several years I have read over 400 nonfiction books, this is a fraction of them.
You can explore my complete Audible library here.
College is mostly a scam at this point.
— Amjad Masad (@amasad)September 23, 2024
You pay $200k+ to get a piece of paper that says you can follow instructions and sit still for 4 years.
Meanwhile, the most successful people I know either dropped out or never went.
The fundamental issue is that most universities have become massive real estate portfolios with bloated administrations that happen to also run schools on the side.
— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath)September 24, 2024
The education part has become secondary to the business of managing endowments and facilities.
I no longer think college is worth it for most people.
— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath)September 24, 2024
The value prop is completely broken:
- Crippling debt
- Outdated curriculums
- Professors disconnected from reality
- Woke ideology prioritized over critical thinking
Learn a skill. Start a business. Skip the debt.
Work
Experience
Developer & Project Manager
REMI - Columbus, OH
Freelance Developer
Self-Employed - Remote
Marketing & Data Entry Specialist
Fix Your Funnel - San Diego, CA
Quality Assurance Analyst
Sony - San Diego, CA
Marketing Manager
ADventures - San Diego, CA
Insurance Broker
Independent - Tampa, FL
Driver
Uber & Lyft - San Diego, California, / Tampa, Florida, / Columbus, Ohio
Earlier Experience
Education
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH