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Chris Asercion

Back End Engineer
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About me

Former educator to backend software engineer. Transitioning because I wanted to continue my pursuits in the creative arts through software development. Experienced in Ruby on Rails, SQL, ActiveRecord, and much more.

Preferred locations

  • Denver, CO
Open to other locations and/or remote work

Previous industries

  • Music
  • Primary/Secondary Education
  • Hospitality

Skills

  • ActiveRecord
  • Continuous Integration
  • GitHub
  • GraphQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Postman
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • SQL

Currently learning

  • Android
  • Bootstrap
  • C++
  • Python

Projects

Foodie Brain

Foodie Brain

Project scope time 60 hours
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Tools Used

  • CircleCI
  • CSS3
  • Cypress
  • GraphQL
  • Heroku
  • PostgreSQL
  • Postman
  • Rails
  • React
  • RSpec

A web application that demonstrates basic CRUD functionality through a food review page. Our learning goals surmounted to the ability for a review to include; a description, map location, and a picture. This project hinged on GraphQL as our new technology focus.

Launch the App Code Repository
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Label Lens

Label Lens

Project scope time 80 hours
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Tools Used

  • Bootstrap
  • Render
  • RSpec

Label Lens provides users with a query device to search albums by label. By typing in the name of an album, they are returned with links to albums from the same label. The new technologies that our team implemented O-Authorization through Spotify, a mobile first platform, and password-less login. Our goal was to making a working web application that was client driven.

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