Robert Heath

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About Robert Heath

I love learning and communicating through a host of different languages and platforms. A native English speaker, I studied French in middle school, high school, and college before learning Japanese while living abroad. I've studied music my whole life as a clarinetist and conductor and have organized concerts as a way for living composers to speak with audiences though their music. Over the past couple of years, I've studied and used a variety of programming languages and frameworks, mostly Ruby on Rails, React, and Next.js. While attending the Turing School of Software and Design, I learned to talk about code and its impact on others. As the engineer with Fixate.io, I built multiple APIs, including an integration with Chat-GPT, and the frontend dashboard. In my free time, I've been building a concert management application (using Next.js and Prisma) that will greatly simplify the work for the usually small-scale production teams of classical music organizations. Ask me for demos of either of these projects! Speaking of concerts, I put on concerts myself as a classically trained clarinetist and conductor. Learning a language is just the pre-work. Languages are a means to communicate with others, and I enjoy the conversation and the interaction with other people, regardless of the specific language. After all, the point of language learning is to have conversations. Cross-language communication can also reveal new perspectives and solutions, and I believe the arts and tech have much to learn from each other. If you want to have a conversation about code, music, Japan, or France, shoot me an email at robert.b.heathii@gmail.com! You'll find me roaming around in the following areas: Pittsburgh (PA), Morgantown (WV), McAllen (TX).