Veteran • Engineer • AI Builder • UI Architect • Data Wrangler
I build tools, systems, and people.
- 🧬 AI Engineering — Gemini 2.5 Pro • GPT-4o • PHI-3 • Transformers.js • DeepSpeed
- 🔁 Data Engineering — Terraform • Firebase • SQL • GitHub Actions • Analytics-driven LLM training
- 🎨 UI Engineering — React • Tailwind CSS • Accessible design systems • Component architecture
Languages: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL
Frontend: React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion
Backend: FastAPI, Flask, Node.js
AI/ML: Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT-4o, PHI-3, DeepSpeed, T5, Transformers.js
Infra: Google Cloud, Firebase, Terraform, GitHub Actions
Testing: Cypress, Playwright, Postman
Design: Storybook, Figma, Accessible UI Patterns- ✏️ Military-to-Civilian Translator – NLP tool using T5 + Transformers.js
- 📊 Vets Who Code Intelligence – LLM + data pipeline for alumni success signals
- 🎨 Mission UI – Accessible, animated React design system
- 🧠 Knowledge Base – Training with DeepSpeed for curriculum intelligence
- 🧰 jerome.codes – Portfolio, blogs, labs, design, and code all in one place
- 📘 Junior to Senior – GitHub ReadME
- 🧠 Teaching in Public – GitHub ReadME
- 🧭 Learn How to Learn – Stack Overflow
- ⚡ Embrace the Suck – Stack Overflow Blog
📌 Wired • Business Insider • HuffPost • Black Enterprise • GitHub ReadME • Stack Overflow • Roadtrip Nation
- Wired: How One Veteran Is Using Code to Make a Difference
- Business Insider: An Air Force veteran who taught himself to code explains how he started a nonprofit that has educated other vets on how to get jobs in tech
- HuffPost: Vets Who Code: Training Troops for Careers in Tech
- Black Enterprise: BE Modern Man: Meet 'The Tech Veteran' Jerome Hardaway
- GitHub ReadME Project: Jerome Hardaway · GitHub ReadME
- Stack Overflow: Ben Popper is the Worst Coder in The World of Seven Billion Humans
- Roadtrip Nation: Jerome Hardaway - Roadtrip Nation Interview
🏛️ White House Demo Day — Honored by President Obama
🧠 Google — Invited as a builder for Gemini-powered veteran tech
- 🌐 Website → jerome.codes
- 💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/jeromehardaway
- 🧠 Vets Who Code → vetswhocode.io
- 📺 YouTube → @vetswhocode
“Focus Fuels Freedom.”