LIVE
2026 → ongoing
Layoff Calculator
A free, source-cited tool that grades severance offers and estimates runway in sixty seconds.
hi, i'm tara
I build
delightful & useful
things.
Engineering manager at Gusto. Independent builder of a layoff calculator, a jiu-jitsu app, and a tap-and-knock game for my kids.
▶ NOW SHIPPING gusto pro workflows & integrations★rolling at north south jiu jitsu★waiting for the caterpillars to hatch★deep in the dungeon crawler carl series★▶ NOW SHIPPING gusto pro workflows & integrations★rolling at north south jiu jitsu★waiting for the caterpillars to hatch★deep in the dungeon crawler carl series★
01 / builds
Things I've shipped lately.
currently shipping · 2026
LIVE
2026 → ongoing
Rollcall
A training log and community for jiu-jitsu practitioners. Tracks belts, drills, and the people you roll with.
FOR THE KIDS
2026 · live
Knock It Off
A tap-and-knock game where a cat shoves food off the counter to a hungry dog. Built in Godot, mostly for my kids.
02 / career
How I got here .
In middle school, my friend taught me to edit Neopets pages with HTML at a sleepover. That was it. I was hooked on shaping the web by hand. I studied advertising at CU Boulder (with a tech-and-media minor), spent my early career in a customer-support seat at a startup called Kapost, attended Women Who Code meetups with friends, and finally bet on a thirteen-week bootcamp called Fullstack Academy when bootcamps still felt like a risk…
03 / off-keyboard
Useful shit, not software.
Heart & Hammer
501(c)(3) · 2012 → today
A nonprofit my family started for community partnerships and humanitarian giving across NY, NJ, FL, and the Philippines.
5,000+
care packages
13 yrs
continuous
4
regions served
Kinetic Minds
kid-coding pilot · 2025 → 2026
A creative-coding program for K–5 students in Montclair. Started with a community fundraiser.
$3,750
seed raised
30%
sponsored seats
6 mo
ran
04 / off the clock
Outside the IDE.
Jiu-jitsu.
White belt, a year in. I eat my own dog food by tracking every roll on Rollcall.
Gardening.
Slowly turning the yard into something the kids can dig in.
Caterpillar habitats.
Backyard butterfly releases with the three short people I share a roof with.
Snowboarding & hiking.
CU Boulder ruined me forever (in a good way).