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Jackson Valdez

Back-End Engineer
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About me

Aspiring Software Engineer with a passion for programming. I love anything that challenges my thought process, problem solving skills, and ability to apply technical knowledge to complex situations. I believe programming is an essential skill that is needed in almost every industry, and I find that exciting and something worth being a part of.

I have about 6 months experience working in the restaurant industry. I washed dishes, worked with customers, served tables, and a few other things. This experience ultimately improved my ability to handle multiple tasks and to communicate with co-workers and customers which are essential skills that I can leverage as a software engineer.

My passion for programming started with video games. I would add my own features to Minecraft such as new blocks, items, weapons and such by creating my own add-ons. After doing this for a while, I realized that programming was something I wanted to pursue as a career.

Preferred locations

  • Denver, CO
Open to remote work

Previous industries

  • Restaurants

Skills

  • Atom
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • RSpec

Currently learning

  • CSS3
  • GraphQL
  • HTML5
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • User Authentication

Projects

Rüm - Group Project (8 people)

Rüm - Group Project (8 people)

Project scope time 96 hours
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Tools Used

  • GraphQL
  • JavaScript
  • Rails
  • React
  • Ruby

Rüm is a 8 person group project to create an app that connects musicians and artists with rooms to rehearse in. The team was split into a frontend team(4 people), and a backend team(4 people). I was a member of the backend team. In this experience I learned how to communicate with a frontend team and being able to work in a large group.

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Market Map

Market Map

Project scope time 15 hours
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Tools Used

  • Google
  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby
  • User Authentication

Market Map is an application designed to connect used car shoppers with an intuitive representation of used car listings all around the country. It allows them to see faults in used car prices by comparing the prices of listings to listings of the same make and model.

Market Map is an application built by a team of 6. There are 2 separate codebases for both frontend and backend. Both were built with rails.

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Relational Rails

Relational Rails

Project scope time 8 hours
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Tools Used

  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby

Relational Rails is a 2 person project that was designed to familiarize one with essential skills needed in most Rails applications. Such As:

  1. Routing
  2. ActiveRecord & PostgreSQL
  3. RSpec
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