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Tyler Caudill

Back-End Engineer
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About me

Software Engineer located in the Chicagoland area. After 10+ years of experience with production and management in the printing industry. I decided to follow my dreams and dive into technology. In November, 2022 I graduated with a back end certificate from Turing Software of School and Design. I am passionate about continuing my personal development, while collaborating with teams to produce innovative, empathetic applications.

Preferred locations

  • Phoenix, AZ
  • Denver, CO
  • Chicago, IL
  • Las Vegas, NV
Open to other locations and/or remote work

Previous industries

  • Printing

Skills

  • Apple
  • Atom
  • Bootstrap
  • Continuous Integration
  • Git
  • GraphQL
  • Heroku
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • Redis
  • RSpec
  • Ruby
  • SQL
  • User Authentication
  • Visual Studio

Currently learning

  • Node.js
  • Python

Projects

StayOrGo

StayOrGo

Project scope time hours
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Tools Used

  • AWS
  • Heroku
  • JavaScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • React
  • Ruby
  • Full stack disaster alert application, where a user signs up for SMS notifications during an event of a major disaster in their area.

  • Collaborated with a team of front and back end developers on a 2 week sprint to obtain MVP functionality, practicing Agile methodologies.

  • Created Postman Server to establish a JSON contract for development teams to use for their application.

  • Implemented backround workers for SMS and email notifications.

Launch the App Code Repository
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Sweater Weather

Sweater Weather

Project scope time 14 hours
Collaborators

Tools Used

  • Git
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • User Authentication
  • Backend application to deliver estimated weather for your road trip destination.

  • Solo project consuming APIs from the NWS, mapquest, and a books endpoint to deliver recommendations.

  • Implemented BCrypt and an API key generator upon user creation.

Code Repository
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