About me
My name is Ethan Black and I'm a creative, curious, and socially-oriented backend software engineer.
Previously, I worked to improve the lives of Coloradans through the political process as a progressive activist and legislative aide. As a nonprofit political director, I used online political communication and advocacy to educate voters, protect reproductive rights, fight climate change, and pursue justice of all stripes.
I hope to utilize my experience and passion to create software that improves communities and creates a positive social impact.
Preferred locations
- Denver, CO
Previous industries
Skills
Currently learning
Projects
Refugee Aid
Refugee Aid
Tools Used
Refugee Aid (Or Refuge) is an application where organizations that host or offer aid to refugees can post requests to the general community, such as for food donations or language translation help.
Compassionate citizens of the community are then able to use the website to search for aid requests in their city to see if there is anything they can offer their time and resources to.
**Data included in the deployment is seeded data for demonstration purposes and is not intended to represent any real organization and their needs.
Wutz
Wutz
Tools Used
Wutz is a social daily trivia game featuring clues from the Jeopardy! game show. I was project lead for a group of 5 developers using an accelerated Agile workflow.
The game consists of separate frontend and backend applications. The backend is an API that uses background workers to consume external Jeopardy and ChatGPT APIs to efficiently generate a daily game board, The frontend utilized a mobile friendly design and local storage for minimal backend API calls.
Wutz was developed over two weeks in September, 2023.
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