I'm a generalist software engineer. I came up through about ten years in customer support before I wrote code professionally, which is why I'm more interested in solving problems than clever tech.
A local-first desktop job-search workbench. It scrapes careers pages, and scores each role against your profile, so even a high-volume search keeps the focus on quality of fit. Data lives as plain Markdown in a local Obsidian vault—user-owned and version-controllable. Tauri v2 + Rust + Svelte 5, a durable SQLite task queue, OS-keychain secrets, and automated workflows leveraging scripting, LLMs and scraping with deterministic orchestration.
An AI-empowered learning-path generator: describe a goal and get a structured path from fundamentals to mastery, every step backed by a real, verified resource that links you out to the original creator. Built for people trying to upskill fast in a market full of layoffs. Next.js 15, React 19, Supabase, Stripe, and 40+ models via OpenRouter, with a retryable background-job pipeline doing the generation.
A stash-management app and community for sewists by a sewist. It recommends patterns that suit fabric you already own (and the reverse), tracks works-in-progress, and gives sewists a feed that isn't locked inside one brand's walled garden. Ruby on Rails.
A dating service built on matchmaking practices I learned in HR tech: respect the criteria the user actually set, get them in front of a person quickly, learn from what happens. No swiping, no chat surface—just a path from criteria to a scheduled first date in public. Phoenix / Elixir.
- Code + Coffee — I co-host this monthly developer meetup. Casual, low-stakes, show up and build.
- Public Schools — As Site Lead at MAXX Potential, I guest-taught sessions on web/software development and information security for local school districts.
- 757ColorCoded — Web-team lead and recurring speaker (2018–2023) for Hampton Roads community for People of Color in tech. Built their first CMS-backed site.
- Hampton Roads DevFest — Speaker (2018, 2024).
- Hampton Roads Women in Technology — Communications committee, then chair (2018–2019).
- Midlothian Code — Founded a nonprofit for current and aspiring developers; grew it to 81 members in four months.
- Web — chazonabaum.com
- LinkedIn — in/chazonacodes
- Bluesky — @chazonabaum.com
- Email — hello@chazonabaum.com