I am a professional web developer with over three years of experience building and maintaining production websites, SaaS software, internal tools, and WordPress/PHP integrations. My strongest tutoring areas are HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, WordPress, PHP, and general full-stack web development skills. My education path has been nontraditional: I completed coursework toward a B.A. in Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles, later completed my GED, and taught myself web...
I am a professional web developer with over three years of experience building and maintaining production websites, SaaS software, internal tools, and WordPress/PHP integrations. My strongest tutoring areas are HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, WordPress, PHP, and general full-stack web development skills. My education path has been nontraditional: I completed coursework toward a B.A. in Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles, later completed my GED, and taught myself web development through structured online programs, documentation, and real production work at a SaaS startup. Because I learned this material outside a traditional computer science degree path, I understand how confusing it can feel when a student is trying to connect tutorials, syntax, debugging, and real-world projects.
Most of my teaching experience has come from one-on-one and small-team professional settings rather than a classroom. In my previous developer role, I helped onboard and support contractor developers, wrote technical documentation and feature specs, reviewed code, explained bugs and implementation details, and helped other developers work through tasks in a production codebase. I have also spent a lot of time translating technical issues for non-technical coworkers in marketing and operations, which taught me how to explain concepts clearly without assuming the listener already knows the vocabulary.
My tutoring style is practical and patient. I like to start by understanding what the student is trying to build or where they are stuck, then work backward into the underlying concept. For beginners, that might mean slowing down to explain how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript fit together before jumping into a framework. For students working on projects, it might mean debugging step by step, reading error messages, checking assumptions, and helping them understand why a fix works rather than just giving them the answer.
