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Kevin Ta

Back End Engineer
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About me

"The Only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've spent all of my 20's working in a restaurants, starting small and eventually climbing to management. During this decade I gained appreciation for teamwork, communication and dedication. I still was left with a feeling like I was worth more then this life and lifestyle.

Thinking of the quote by Mr. Emerson, I didn't want to settle for a life in the service industry. I chose to sacrifice time and financial security to develop and decide who I want to end up being, a software engineer.I continue to be excitedly intrigued at the complexity and depth of the tech industry.

I learned how to crawl while being at Turing and will continue to walk the developer pathway until I can run with an amazing company! I look forward to meeting potential employers!

Preferred locations

  • Denver, CO
  • Aurora, CO
  • Lone Tree, CO
  • Centennial, CO
Open to remote work

Previous industries

  • Restaurants
  • Retail

Skills

  • Atom
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Heroku
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby
  • Slack
  • Visual Studio

Currently learning

  • Python

Projects

Lunch & Learn

Lunch & Learn

Project scope time 30 hours
Collaborators

Tools Used

  • GitHub
  • Rails
  • RSpec

Back-end portion of a Service Oriented Architecture application to search for cuisines by country, and provide opportunity to learn more about that countries culture. This app will allow users to search for recipes by country, favorite recipes, and learn more about a particular country.

Achieving and completing this project was a journey of struggle, research, and learning. Becoming more comfortable and consuming and exposing API endpoints in this project was a great success. With many companies utilizing this method of receiving and sending data, I look forward to potentially working with them in the future!

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Little Esty Shop

Little Esty Shop

Project scope time 65 hours
Collaborators Profile picture for Sean Culliton Profile picture for Emily Port

Tools Used

  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby

Collaborative team of 4, building a mock web store front. Little Esty Shop allows admins as well as merchants to display, edit, create, and delete merchandise.

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