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Erik Riggs

Back End Engineer
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About me

Former restaurant owner and operator looking to take my years of experience into a career as a software developer. I am a proven problem solver that has collaborated with diverse groups of people to achieve a collective goal. Constantly adapting and evolving to accommodate frequently changing situations and trends. Being a software devloper combines my passion for new experiences, working toward goals as teams, and my skills for reaching solutions to new and different problems daily. I am looking forwarding to facing new challenges everyday and collaborating with others to find solutions as I gain more knowlegde and experience in my new career.

Preferred locations

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

Previous industries

  • Hospitality

Skills

  • GitHub
  • GraphQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby
  • SQL

Currently learning

  • JavaScript
  • Python

Projects

Eat Local

Eat Local

Project scope time 100 hours
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Tools Used

  • Continuous Integration
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GraphQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails

Eat local is an application that provides the user with a list of locally owned businesses based on location in an effort to support small businesses. This application was created with a 7 person team using service orientated architechure between a React front end and a Rails back end. Eat local was created from inception to MVP using agile practices over 3 sprints with wireframes, JSON contracts, schemas, CI/CD, and GitHub projects to ensure a collaborative workflow between a front end and back end team.

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Lunch and Learn API

Lunch and Learn API

Project scope time 40 hours
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Tools Used

  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby

Lunch and Learn is a back end rails API that provides data for recipes and learning materials based on a country search. It uses 4 external endpoints and aggregates that data to expose 5 endpoints based on wireframes for front end consumption.

  • API facade design pattern is used to consume and aggregate data from external endpoints.
  • JSON standards are upheld by serializing the data before exposing each endpoint
  • Authentication is used by creating an API key upon user creation
  • Follows TDD using RSpec and VCR to
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