Welcome to elmquist.dev, a website where I share my adventures in coding and my efforts to write excellent software.
While earning a master's of financial mathematics at the University of Minnesota I got my first taste of software development, and I was hooked.
I spent the next several years in the financial industry but programing was a hobby at that time or something I use to remove repetitive tasks from my professional life.
Eventually I got involved with the Chicago Python User group. I participated on of their mentorship programs and 3 months later I had a shiny new Django website. Not long after I became one of the maintainers for their website, chipy.org.
Today I'm a professional developer with experience working on a wide range of software in the python ecosystem.