While serving in the United States Marine Corps, Errol graduated from the Defense Language Institute and operated as a Pashto Cryptologic Linguist. His early post military career largely surrounded practicing effective leadership, project management, and continually looking for improvement in operations and process while performing as a Production Supervisor for a large manufacturing company.
Feeling stagnant and unchallenged, he made the decision to pursue a career change. Fast forward to today, he has achieved a Bachelors of Science in Software Development, succesfully completed the CIW User Interface Designer certification, and completed the CompTIA Project+ certification.
After shifting fields, he has mainly developed for the web, working professionally with Americommerce, Shift4Shop, Shopify, and WordPress. The platform he has gained the most experience with is WordPress through creating themes and plugins. His other areas of expertise include search engine optimization, analytics, digital marketing, and providing reliable and scalable solutions.
Errol has been able to contribute to several exciting projects such as, Monster Transmission & Performance, Engines.com, Accountants One Job Board, Red Phone Booth, and Rooted In Process.
Currently, he performs as a Software Engineer supporting a public facing SaaS platform, developing WordPress themes and plugins, and building custom internal and public facing integrated solutions for a large corporation. He has found the most enjoyment utilizing TypeScript, Vue, Terraform, Amazon Web Services, and PHP to perform in his professional role. In his personal projects, Errol also enjoys working with cloud solutions such as Vercel and Firebase, utilizing ReactJS, and continuing to grow his skills in Rust.
To contribute back to the development community, Errol often spends time on Discord servers answering questions to improve communication skills, provide insights and experiences to other up-and-coming developers, and to learn in public while meeting other creative and skilled professionals.
Outside of engineering, Errol spends his time raising his two beautiful children alongside his wife, enjoying a good professional or collegiate football game, or taking in the outdoors and gardening. He is also available to connect on LinkedIn, and in a more informal capacity can also be found on X.