Michael Yount
Executive Chef at Freelance
Lehighton, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Yount is a transitioning technologist and MIT xPRO-certified full stack developer (MERN) with a decade of professional experience and a background as an Executive Chef. He combines hands-on web and app development work—freelance projects and a personal portfolio—with six-plus years of Unity and Blender experience from indie game and VR projects, giving him strong cross-disciplinary teamwork and deadline skills. Comfortable with tools from Photoshop to GIMP and a lifelong programmer since the 1980s, he brings both creative asset production and front-end/back-end development fluency. Based in Lehighton, PA, he’s actively taking on small web projects while pursuing advanced coursework to deepen his engineering practice. His non-obvious advantage is an operations-first mindset honed in high-pressure kitchens, which translates to reliability and process discipline in software delivery. Open to roles in app development, he’s aiming to leverage his unique mix of creative, technical, and leadership experience for a career change.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Computer Science, 96.7, Certificate, Computer Science, 96.7 at MIT xPRO
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Github Skills (2)
javascript6
react6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Michael-Yount/MichaelAYountProgrammerWebSite
Dec 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:85 pushes, 6 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
Michael-Yount/KitchenPrepApp
Dec 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:248 commits, 170 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
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