About Me

I am Jake Gunter. I’m a software engineer, musician, composer / arranger, and lighting designer (not always in that order).

I was born in Chandler, Arizona; I grew up in Santa Cruz, California, where I picked up my interests in playing music (at the age of 8 or so) and technical theatre (at 16). After high school, I moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which I earned a joint degree in Humanities and Engineering, with focuses in Computer Science and Theatre Arts. After graduating, I moved to Vienna, Virginia, to begin work as a software engineer at Capital One.

How to contact me

If you want to contact me for any reason (well, for any non-spam reason), I’d love to hear from you! The best way to reach me is via email. You can email me at contact AT jakegunter.net. I check my email very often, and will most likely get back to you within a day (unless you are a robot and/or spammer, in which case you should probably not expect a response).

Looking for my résumé?

That’s great! Send me an email and I will be happy to send you a copy. (In the interest of personal privacy, I don’t publish my résumé online.)

Colophon

(A colophon is a statement in a published work ⁠— usually a book, but sometimes a website ⁠— describing various typesetting choices made in the creation of the work.)

On this site, headings are set in Overpass, designed by Delve Withrington, and body text is set in Equity, designed by Matthew Butterick. (If you are viewing this site in a non-modern web browser that only supports system fonts, you are likely seeing both headings and body text in Georgia, designed by Matthew Carter.) Snippets of code, wherever they appear, are set in Matthew Butterick’s Triplicate.

This site is written in HTML5 and CSS3, generated by Hugo. It utilizes Skeleton.css, written by Dave Gamache, for layout and some styling (the font and color choices are my own, as are the underlines that appear when you hover your cursor over a link, which took a surprising amount of effort to get right). Coding work was done in Visual Studio Code and Sublime Text 3. Content is served by Netlify and Amazon Web Services.