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Katy Harrod

Back-End Engineer
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About me

Watching my mother learn to ride the unicycle in her 40s showed me I could learn to do anything, if my heart was in it. I took this sort of drive with me when I started my own e-commerce business after high school. One of my favorite aspects of running that website was monitoring the fluctuations in different metrics such as average engagement time as I made small adjustments over time. I've carried this feedback and improvement mindset with me to every professional and personal endeavor I've had since and have become a magnificent shape - shifter.

Knowing I can learn and improve at anything, I decided to go after what I am most excited about in life: technology. I went to the backend program at Turing because I see the potential in this industry and want to create tools to improve people’s lives. I see a more accessible future and I have an undeniable drive to amaze and inspire.

Preferred locations

  • Denver, CO
Open to remote work

Previous industries

  • Insurance
  • Medical Devices
  • Medical Practice
  • Pharmaceuticals

Skills

  • Atom
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Heroku
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby
  • Slack
  • SQL
  • Trello

Currently learning

  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • React

Projects

MyMeds

MyMeds

Project scope time 80 hours
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Tools Used

  • Atom
  • C++
  • Continuous Integration
  • Cypress
  • GitHub
  • GraphQL
  • Heroku
  • JavaScript
  • Product Management
  • Rails
  • React
  • TypeScript

August 2022 first place Demo Comp project. MyMeds is a medication inventory, tracking and notification application. It displays a user’s medications in a simple consolidated way showing dose, amount and timing. MyMeds is also a reminder service via visual, email and sms text messages to ensure a user does not miss a dose and when they can retake their meds.

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