About

Hi, I'm Jerod. I build websites that earn their keep.

I'm a developer in Bellingham, WA who spent four years shipping production software — and even longer in professional kitchens before that. Half Dollars is me doing both things I know: building sharp websites, for local businesses I understand.

2021 – 2025

Web Developer / Software Engineer

Cloud Security Alliance · Bellingham, WA

Four years shipping production web software: a build-time image optimization pipeline, Playwright test automation, Auth0 integrations, and internationalization pipelines across a large content platform. Ruby on Rails, React/Next.js, TypeScript — the same stack your site gets built with.

Before that

Sous Chef

Professional kitchens

Years in real kitchens. I know what a Friday night rush feels like, what a menu needs to do, and why a restaurant's website has about eight seconds to turn a search into a reservation.

2022

B.S. Computer Science

Western Washington University

With a minor in Mathematics. Formal training in how software should be built — then four years of doing it for a living.

Now

Freelance · Half Dollars

Bellingham, WA

Building custom websites for local businesses — agency quality without the agency invoice. When I'm not coding, I'm busking downtown Bellingham on guitar.

Why a former sous chef builds your website

Because I've been on the other side of the counter. I know a restaurant lives or dies on Friday nights, that a plumber needs the phone to ring, that a shop owner doesn't have time to learn a page builder. I build sites for the way local businesses actually work — fast, clear, and pointed at one job: turning visitors into customers.

Work with me