Mahon Baldwin

In a world without a leader...
A software engineer who uses his powers for good!

Hi, I'm Mahon (my secret identity must remain unknown). I've had the privilege of working for companies like Nike and Sling TV as a software engineer. I've been professionally programming since I graduated from BYU-Idaho in 2010. In addition to software development I enjoy reading, hiking, photography, psychology, sociology, sleight of hand, rearing my child, and finding new ways to surprise my wife.

If you're interested in my skills or portfolio, just scroll down.
If you want to know about my work history, you can view it on LinkedIn .
If you're curious why bees store their honey in the little plastic bears I'm sure there is a video on YouTube that can tell you.

#kudos

Here are some nice things people have said about me.

I have enjoyed working with Mahon for more than two years now. In that time I've been impressed with Mahon's software engineering skills, and with his dedication. Mahon has an intuitive understanding of good software design that few of his peers posses. This understanding is likely due to his drive for improvement—both in terms of his personal growth and improvement in software. He is always working towards a goal of efficient, readable code; at the same time, he knows when it's time to be finished because "perfect is the enemy of good."

Mahon takes the requisite time to carefully craft code. Anyone who works with him will notice that he doesn't just "get it working" on the "happy path." Rather, he carefully considers edge cases and possible errors. Additionally, he takes the time to truly understand the requirements (too often I've seen what happens when others are less careful). His careful attentiveness leads to better code, reduced complexity, and overall greater quality of a software product.

Mahon has all the marks of a great engineer—one that adds value to your code. One that works to understand the business's needs. One that helps those around him to achieve great results. I know that Mahon will go to great places and I hope I have the opportunity to work with him again someday. ~ David King

I had the pleasure of working directly with Mahon for 3 years at OrangeSoda. Mahon is a hard working developer who is focused on making sure that his software is of the highest quality and usability for the customer. He doesn't shy away from expressing his thoughts on how to best implement new features and he is always willing to work with others to figure out what will be best for the end user.

Mahon seeks to learn more and improve his skills constantly. He is an excellent developer, but that doesn't keep him from seeking new and better ways to code so that the software will be more robust and higher quality.

I really enjoyed working with Mahon and I'm certain he will be an excellent addition to any company that he works for. ~ Shawn Hart

I have enjoyed working with Mahon, he is an excellent engineer with a keen mind for making good quality software that works properly. He likes to understand the big picture, not just the block of code he is working on today. He goes out of his way to fix technical debt he comes across when possible and encourages others to write long term maintainable code. I think he would be a valuable asset to any software development team. ~ Bryan Lee

Mahon has been a very dedicated employee. He has been ethical, loyal and intelligent. He has taken the lead on some of the projects and delivered. He works well the team, a great asset to any company. ~ Douglas Tiejen

#skills

.NET
AngularJS
Arduino
AWS
Clojure
ClojureScript
ColdFusion
CouchBase
CSS
D3
Datomic
Google Cloud
HTML5
Java
JavaScript
jQuery
JSON
Kafka
LESS
MongoDb
NodeJs
PHP
React
SASS
Selenium
SQL
XML

#portfolio

Most of my professional work has been done for employers, but I have a few fun side projects that you can see here.

Cindy Baldwin is a talented children's book writer and poet who needs a place to tell agents and publishers about her and her work, this website is her place to do that. She is also my awesome wife. I developed her site after she drew up some mock-ups of what she wanted.

I enjoy playing around with electronics. This is an Arduino hooked up to the motors of an old remote controlled car. One day I plan to get a WiFi board and add remote functionality.

I made a little game of hangman just for fun.

I have several small projects on GitHub, most of them are simple proofs of concept.

#contact

Feel free to drop me a line, but if you really want to be considerate, please pick it up again. The best ways to get a hold of me are using one of the following social networks.

Twitter