About me
Two-time back-to-back UC Berkeley dropout who still needed time afterwards to learn the power of failure and the inefficiencies of shame. Growing up I rooted my identity solely in my “intelligence” and what I could accomplish over others. The tried and true classic framework in optimizing for ignorance and misery.
Since then I have done my best to interface with as many people as possible. From de-escalating disgruntled customers to smiling with abnormally cheerful ones. From encouraging demoralized students to pushing for growth in self-satisfied students. From facing failures alone to celebrating successes together. And I’ve seen just an abundance of blessings in taking the time to know and help the people around me.
I am passionate about optimizing for growth in any capacity and striving for it with everyone around me. Everyone has different values and thus makes the task difficult. However, I believe it produces the best outcomes and goes hand in hand with tech’s goal for efficiency.
Preferred locations
- Los Angeles, CA
- San Francisco, CA
- Denver, CO
Previous industries
Skills
Currently learning
Projects
Flakes of Wrath
Flakes of Wrath
.jpeg){kind=avatar}
Tools Used
An app to Plan winter trips into the backcountry with smart forecasts and a proprietary avalanche prediction algorithm.
Built with a Service Oriented Architecture with Rails for both the front and back ends. All endpoints are restful, and the backend uses a service-facade design pattern. Authentication is through Google OAuth. We used Bootstrap with some custom CSS to make it pretty. It's currently deployed to fly.io.
The main product is an avalanche forecast that combines current avalanche conditions from the Northwest Avalanche Center with a 7-day forecast. Additional features include setting a favorite zone, planning future trips, and adding emergency contacts. All endpoints have full CRUD functionality.
Flakes of Wrath was selected for Demo Comp to represent the 2207 back-end cohort and ended up taking first place.
Lunch and Learn
Lunch and Learn
Tools Used
A useful way to learn new recipes and the countries they originate from
Built a fully functional back end app to expose and build multiple APIs for a front end team
Self taught exposing RESTful JSON APIs to aggregate data and then build CRUD functional endpoints for a theoretical FE team
Exercised use of Rails, Postgresql, Postman, serializing, and creating documentation for others to understand the app’s use
Little Esty Shop
Little Esty Shop
Tools Used
Little Ssty Shop is an e-commerce-based web application that I worked on in a team of 4 and later expanded on as a solo project for adding discount functionality to the merchant side of the site. This application has two separate sides to the site. The first side provides access to merchants, and the other side provides access to site admins. Based on which side of the site you are accessing, different functionality is available. This functionality includes checking sales data, managing items or vendor availability, and allowing merchants to set discounts on items sold
