About

I’m Aaron Krauss, and I’m a full stack developer based out of OKC, Oklahoma. I’ve been coding for well over a decade now, and I’m very actively involved in my local tech community. I work at Clevyr as the Technical Lead of New Development, and I’m a fan of Laravel, Vue, Flutter, Ruby, Go, Python, JavaScript, SQL, Swift – and honestly, just about anything.

Background

My love of coding started when I was 14 in my first high school programming class, and I’ve become a major polyglot programmer since then. I started by learning Visual Basic, Java, and C/C++ in school, and then went on to self-learn Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, Shell, SQL, C#, … the list goes on and on.

Over my career, I’ve gotten to work on some pretty cool projects, such as big data, detailed analytics, oil and gas, healthcare, biopharma, state and federal, games, collaboration apps, and plenty more. You name it, I likely have some sort of experience with it.

I typically play the role of a back-end developer, working with multiple programming paradigms in software, web, and mobile development. I prefer to program in a Unix-based environment, utilizing the terminal heavily for everything. My main skills here are PHP/Laravel, Ruby/Rails, Dart/Flutter, Python, Go, SQL, NoSQL, APIs, Node.js, Git, Shell, and Vim. Boy do I love vim. I’ve also got a pretty big fancy for DevOps tools like Docker, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes.

That said, I don’t work only on the back-end; I’m incredibly comfortable with HTML, CSS (including TailwindCSS - that’s what this site uses!), and all the major JavaScript front-end frameworks (Vue, React, Angular). I’ve also built plenty of projects using CMSs like WordPress, CraftCMS, and more. Check out my projects to see what I’ve worked on!

My Interests

I love tea, and that’s putting it lightly (don’t ask me how many teapots I have). I’ve been a tea enthusiast for nearly two decades now. My favorite high quality teas are Japanese greens and Chinese oolongs from reputable sources, but I have nothing against plain ‘ol tea bags too. Tea is for everyone.

I love longboarding. I got into it in college as a quick way to get between classes, and I just fell in love with it. I don’t do any fancy tricks; I just enjoy cruising, carving down hills, and getting rid of any stress from the day.

I love craft beer and making cocktails. If you’ve seen My History with Beer, then you know beer is a part of my heritage. I was born in Germany, after all! After I turned 21, craft beer rocketed into a full-blown passion. As far as cocktails go, I have a full at-home cocktail setup to craft whatever you can dream. It may take me 10 minutes to make a drink, but you can bet it’ll be made right!

I love my family. My wife Layla and I have been together since 2006! She’s my partner in crime when it comes to traveling the globe, playing tennis, bingewatching TV series, and pretty much everything in between. She’s the sweetest, most thoughtful and honest person I know. I can’t imagine a life without her. I love her, and she’s an incredibly talented dietitian too! I also have two beautiful sons, Cyrus and Lucas, who keep me busy and full of love in ways that I could only ever have dreamed about.