Hi there. I'm Jake Mates, a web developer and designer living in Tiburon, CA (slightly north from San Francisco). Since I started Jake Mates Design in August 2008, I've done work for Fortune 500 companies and have clients around the world. Rather than a long essay about who I am, how about some facts?

Facts about Jake Mates:

• I first started coding websites at age eleven.
• I'm an Apple Certified Associated in iWork. I've created 35+ presentations - I know Keynote like the back of my hand.
• I can recite the lyrics to Still Alive. It may or may not be my ringtone.
• I am a collector of vintage Apple computers and assorted items.
• I am a huge supporter of Bitcoin. If you want, I accept payment in BTC.
• I play a lot of Minecraft. I'm a mod on the Reddit servers too; come say hi!
• I learned my first programming language (Scheme), at age ten.
• I love to travel: anywhere, anytime.
• I go to Redwood High School in Larkspur, CA.
• Ninety percent of my room is composed of the IKEA catalog.
• I am currently learning Ruby on Rails.
• I dabble in photography.
• I'm a hardcore redditor. The narwhal bacons at midnight.
• There is a finite number of facts about me.