About

Interdisciplinary problem-solving. More angles. Better solutions.

Hi! I'm Jammes Luckett (pronounced "Jom"), a full stack software engineer, web developer, and multidisciplinary artist. Art Mechanix is the creative studio and imprint that serves as the home for all of my problem-solving adventures. Naturally, my code-related work has often centered around frontend and backend solutions for the creative industries, but I've worked with independents, startups, and enterprise firms across many other industries.

An interdisciplinary approach is a natural part of who I am and how my brain works, shaped by lifelong interests and experiences across the arts, humanities, and sciences. It's one of the key reasons clients enjoy working with me, and why some have recognized my work, including Comcast. Working across disciplines has allowed me to apply my skills in very different contexts and see more possible angles from which to approach every challenge. This allows me to offer clients more practical, flexible, and creative solutions that fit their needs, aesthetic, and budget. It often saves time and money, too!

Because I've always been exposed to many different experiences and perspectives, it's also a key part of my work to be mindful in my designs when it comes to things like UX and accessibility. They're not afterthoughts for "compliance," but something I consider the right thing to do from day one, to create a better internet that can be enjoyed by everyone who wants to. It's the same thinking behind my passion project World In Your Eyes.

While much of my professional story unfolded in Los Angeles and took me to cities around the world, I'm a Midwest native who is now making her home in the NC Triangle region. When I'm not "working," I'm still working and learning: building something for myself, creating visual art, restoring old gadgets, or sharpening my DJ skills.

My Background

As a Gen Xer who grew up during the shift from analogue to digital, I've been coding for most of my life. Some of my earliest programs were multimedia projects, so I learned early that the disciplines I work in share much of the same terminology and process. I was also immersed in electronics, and I carried my appreciation for designing, troubleshooting, and testing wiring into similar pipelines in code. I started building web and software solutions professionally in 1997, just as the internet was picking up steam.

Since 1997, I've worked with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Python, React, the Web Audio API, AI, and other technologies. From fully hand-built sites to traditional and headless content management systems and agentic solutions, I turn lifelong learning into practical, creative solutions for real people. I design and build with care, and I strive to deliver work that matches your aesthetic, needs, and goals.

Just as I did in childhood, I've always drawn on my background as a composer, producer, writer, and visual artist in my tech work. Often the two are directly linked, because I've built apps and tools to support those passions. I've also done closely related work for others, such as producing and editing content, writing technical documentation, and building features for media players and portfolios.

Natural curiosity has always pushed me to experiment with new tech long before it becomes commonplace. That has helped me serve people in my other roles as a technical writer, IT certification instructor, tutor, and technician, and helped reduce their fear and intimidation around technology.

Tech Career Highlights

Earlier in my overall career, I was quickly promoted to Lead Researcher for early SaaS dot-com startup iNetNow, Inc. in Los Angeles. Over the course of the firm's three-year lifespan, this work frequently extended into software and user experience. I contributed to the improvement of user experience on its websites and proprietary internal search engine. I helped identify, diagnose, report and resolve code issues, redesigned the delivery format of extended research reports, and supported with technical writing. These efforts directly helped to increase its subscriber base and eventually helped lead to a partnership with Lycos 411.

I also built early promotional sites and wrote marketing materials for films such as May and The Woods, as well as independent films. These helped generate buzz and, in some cases, strengthened their positioning for festival selection, studio acquisition, and distribution. In the case of May and The Woods, my concepts, designs, graphics, and marketing assets were adapted for the films' official release campaigns by their respective major studios.

Even in recent years, my tech work has earned recognition, including on contract projects for Comcast's Data Science department located at its Philadelphia headquarters and ASM International, the world's largest materials science association. I also built a website that increased pass rates while serving as a CompTIA instructor for IT certification nonprofit Per Scholas during the pandemic.

Creative Approaches to Technical Work

Every discipline offers its own palette of ways to approach a problem, and many of them connect. Working across disciplines and very different contexts gives me more ways in and more possible solutions, with different benefits depending on your goals, budget, and timeline.

I'm not limited to a single set of tools or habitual assumptions, and I never get so focused on the technical that I forget we're making things for people. That makes me more flexible than a traditional specialist. You don't have to be forced into a one-size-fits-all approach, and you get a practical, creative solution that fits your combination of needs, aesthetic, and budget. Often it also saves time and money, and results are more interesting and distinct.

I pride myself on listening, asking questions, and finding creative solutions that are practical and a pleasure to use. I get a kick out of translating between my clients' vision and the technology that brings it to life.

A lifetime of creative work, curiosity, and experimentation has also exposed me to many different perspectives and experiences. This keeps me mindful of how differently others may experience the world. It's why incorporating accessibility considerations into my design and build proposals from the start matters so much to me. It's also why I spend time building passion projects such as World In Your Eyes, which lets you step into how other people and species see, hear, and sense the world.