• 🔭 I’m currently working on refactoring on a simple React Weather App using the Open Weather API, as well as building my own D&D character sheet creator & stats tracker

• 🌱 I’m currently refreshing my skill set with Typescript

• 💻 Some of my application testing and other sandboxes can be seen on my Codepen

• 📸 If you're interested in seeing a few of my photographs you can do that here: imattking.com

I love building with code. I am as easily captivated by fine-tuning CSS or iterating through array methods, as I am retouching a photograph, playing a video game, watching an episode of Critical Role, or reading a book.

Software engineering is my passion, and it is at the forefront of my endeavors! My background is rooted in more 'aesthetic' disciplines. I have a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism (specializing in video production) from the University of Georgia, and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Savannah College of Art & Design.

My greatest artistic inspirations can be found in the works of Ansel Adams, Dieter Appelt, Joseph Beuys, the philosophies of Roland Gérard Barthes, the complete imaginative storytelling prowess of the Critical Role cast, the writing of both Anthony Bourdain & Nick Flynn, animation from Japan, and anything involving dungeons, dragons, or both dungeons and dragons.

My personal philosophy has long read: Light. Changes. Everything.

"What's past is prologue." — William Shakespeare

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." — Isaac Netwon (by way of those before him)

"I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul." — William Ernest Henley