About me.

I'm Jose R. Herrera — a CS student at the University of Virginia and a full-stack developer who likes shipping things that solve real problems. My favorite projects live where software meets the messy real world: self-hosting an ERP to replace my family's store's legacy system, migrating 500+ products into PostgreSQL, building tools people actually use.

I've owned deployment and DevOps on Agile teams, built Discord-style messaging features, and designed relational schemas with real data-integrity constraints. I care about clean code, secure systems, and learning in public — which is what this site is for.

Away from the keyboard: piano, languages (Japanese and Korean right now), and the gym.

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Charlottesville, VA

Education

University of Virginia

BS, Computer Science · expected May 2027

Charlottesville, VA

Northern Virginia Community College

AS, Engineering · 2025

Annandale, VA

Skills

LanguagesJava, Python, C++, JavaScript, SQL, R

TechnologiesGit, Docker, Linux, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Django, React, JDBC, Hibernate, Gradle, JavaFX, AWS, Heroku

CertificationsAWS Cloud Practitioner

SpokenFluent in English & Spanish · studying Japanese & Korean

Now

Studying Korean daily, training four days a week, learning Chopin slowly, and building this site in public.