About me
See a snippet of my "learning exhaust" at my Jekyll-built, GHpages deployed blog: Marchandmd.github.io
Hello!
I am a proven professional, with a verifiable history of passion for coding/software development. I'm making this change because I bet on myself to become my greatest potential, and am earning the respect of my peers and superiors along the way.
After comfortably teaching myself a significant amount of Ruby and Rails over the course of 3+ years, I brought my skill-set to Turing. Here I have honed my technical knowledge and acumen into a job-ready candidate. Bringing 10+ years of professional experience, I am ready to join a team looking for an eager, intrinsically motivated, group-oriented self-starter.
Just a few of my refined professional skills include: Attention to detail, problem solving, self-reliance, and an excellent/responsive communication style.
I'm looking to do more than simply join a team: I want to be part of an organization that has a clear sense of vision in the software it develops, and expects as much from it's stakeholders.
If your company places an emphasis on empowering it's employees to become better humans and striving to improve quality of life at a macro-level, than we should talk...
If you appreciate the tone of this message, feel free to contact me so we can continue to conversation! MichaelDavidMarchand@gmail.com
Preferred locations
- Boulder, CO
- Chicago, IL
Previous industries
Skills
Currently learning
Projects
YouTube API solo project
YouTube API solo project
Tools Used
Exposes an API to function within a Service-Oriented Architecture
Key accomplishments:
- Expose an API that aggregates data from multiple external APIs
- Expose an API that requires an authentication token
- Expose an API for CRUD functionality
- Determine completion criteria based on the needs of other developers
- Test both API consumption and exposure, making use of at least one mocking tool (VCR, Webmock, etc).



Jekyll-backed, Github Pages deployed Blog
Jekyll-backed, Github Pages deployed Blog
Tools Used
100% self-taught and successfully deployed "learning exhaust" blog
Key accomplishments:
- Learned new templating language (liquid)
- Learned new framework (Jekyll)
- Deployed successfully to Github Pages



Mock E-Commerce Platform
Mock E-Commerce Platform
Tools Used
Monolithic Rails app with complex DB structure, heavy ActiveRecord/SQL querying and API consumption
Key accomplishments:
- Building custom Rake tasks to import CSV data
- User Stories to drive completion of features
- Following wireframes to guide front end design
- Practice designing a normalized database schema and defining model relationships
- Utilize advanced routing techniques including namespacing to organize and group like functionality together.
- Utilize advanced active record techniques to perform complex database queries
- Practice consuming a public API while utilizing POROs as a way to apply OOP principles to organize code


