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Nikky Rojas

Back-End Engineer
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About me

After Serving in the United States Air Force as an Aircraft Mechanic, I started my journey on becoming a dedicated and adaptable Back-End Software Engineer.

I am excited to continue exercising my troubleshooting skills, leadership skills, and the many others I have developed through my diverse background.

I look forward to being an asset on a collaborative team, continuously growing as an individual/developer, and being a positive contributor to society.

Preferred locations

  • Denver, CO
Open to remote work

Previous industries

  • Airlines/Aviation
  • Military

Skills

  • Atom
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Heroku
  • LinkedIn
  • Management
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby
  • Slack
  • SQL
  • Trello
  • Visual Studio

Currently learning

  • Bootstrap
  • JavaScript

Projects

Got-Baggage

Got-Baggage

Project scope time 80 hours
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Tools Used

  • Cypress
  • GitHub
  • GraphQL
  • JavaScript
  • Rails

Worked on a team of 7, divided into a front-end and backend group. Created an organizational rails app for traveling utilizing GraphQL, Javascript, and Cypress. The app allows individuals to create a packing list for multiple family members and choose a trip type which will provide a pre-populated packing list.

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Critterism

Critterism

Project scope time 50 hours
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Tools Used

  • Google
  • Heroku
  • RSpec
  • Ruby

Worked in a team of 4, rotating on both the backend and frontend application creation. Implemented Google OAuth2 for user authentication. Critterism is an educational rails app that utilizes the consumption of every.org API and opentbd API to create a fun trivia game that educates and also provides the option to donate to animal related charities.

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Viewing Party Light

Viewing Party Light

Project scope time 30 hours
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Tools Used

Worked as a pair to create a frontend and backend rails app. Viewing Party Lite is a movie hosting application that enables its users to explore movie options, create viewing party events for themselves, and invite other users. This application utilizes the consumption of a public movie API to make a working application.

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