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Michael Marchand

Full Stack Engineer, Back-End Engineer, Software Developer
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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
Open to other locations and/or remote work

Previous industries

  • Banking
  • Financial Services

Skills

  • Apple
  • Atom
  • Bootstrap
  • Business Development
  • Chrome
  • CSS3
  • Firefox
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Google
  • Heroku
  • HTML5
  • JavaScript
  • Less
  • LinkedIn
  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby
  • SaaS
  • Sass
  • SQL
  • Visual Studio

Currently learning

  • Bash
  • CoffeeScript
  • DevOps
  • GraphQL
  • Gulp
  • jQuery
  • PostgreSQL
  • R
  • RubyMine
  • User Authentication
  • Wordpress

Projects

YouTube API solo project

YouTube API solo project

Project scope time 20 hours
Collaborators

Tools Used

  • Bootstrap
  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby

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).
Code Repository
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Jekyll-backed, Github Pages deployed Blog

Jekyll-backed, Github Pages deployed Blog

Project scope time hours
Collaborators

Tools Used

  • CSS3
  • HTML5
  • Ruby

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
Code Repository
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Mock E-Commerce Platform

Mock E-Commerce Platform

Project scope time 30 hours
Collaborators

Tools Used

  • Linux
  • RSpec
  • Ruby

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
Code Repository
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