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Alicia Watt

Back-End-Engineer
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About me

Passionate about problem-solving. I love to break down a problem, understand it in parts, and make it better. I have a background in retail management and athletics coaching. I’ve enjoyed creating systems in my professional life that people interact with from breaking down a swim stroke to help my athletes improve, or removing obstacles to help employees reach their goals with greater ease. The fun is in designing the solution and continuously improving upon it. I hope to bring this same joy and creativity to my backend developer role. I'm looking forward to problem-solving with you.

Preferred locations

  • Denver, CO
Open to other locations and/or remote work

Previous industries

  • Consumer Services
  • Health, Wellness and Fitness

Skills

  • Bootstrap
  • CSS3
  • GitHub
  • Heroku
  • HTML5
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby

Currently learning

  • Python
  • Rust

Projects

GearUp

GearUp

Project scope time 80 hours
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Tools Used

  • Bootstrap
  • CSS3
  • Heroku
  • HTML5
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby

Planning outdoor group adventures can be complicated. Gear UP gives you a platform to organize trips, gear, and who is responsible for bringing what. Our team worked in an agile environment to produce a web app that adheres to the principles of a Service-Oriented Architecture. The app implements OAuth flows and API consumption of weather and GPS data, as well as a robust testing suite utilizing VCR’s, WebMock, and RSpec Mocks.

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Whether Sweater

Whether Sweater

Project scope time 18 hours
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Tools Used

  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • Ruby

"Whether Sweater" is an individual project that focusses on consuming and creating API endpoints. It combines freely-available weather, location, image, and travel-directions data to serve up information about the weather at queried destinations.

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