J Seymour

I am an emerging back-end engineer with a prior background in skatepark design, landscape design, and horticulture. Before attending Turing’s certified Back End Engineering program, I have achieved over 4 years of experience working within project based design firms.

With a passion for collaboration and communication, I transitioned my career to focus on backend software development. I have spent the last few months at Turing honing my skills in Ruby, Rails, Git, Agile development, Restful API Building, and PostgreSQL, to name a few.

I have experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant RESTful services, reviewing code with best practices in mind, and mentoring teammates in formal and informal knowledge sharing sessions. Additionally, my experience with service-oriented front-end and back-end applications has prepared me well to work in a company with similar values.

Throughout every chapter of my professional life, I have brought my most authentic self to my work. I lead with my heart and my values in the front of my mind. I care about doing “the most good”, ethically, and progressively. Because of this I seek like minded companies, ones that have a mutual sense of respect and values. I have performed different roles within many unique team dynamics and I feel the best one for me is a team that prioritizes a healthy way to learn, grow and take risks. An environment like that would allow me to confidently bring my best self every day.