About me
Having always had a mind and love for problem solving, I took my first foray into the vast world of IT 5 years ago. Starting out on a help-desk for an internally developed real estate software solution, I took up opportunities to better my knowledge of development processes, languages, and customer interactions to build my way into Quality Assurance, and later Product Management.
I found a deep passion for stepping into a problem, understanding the needs of both individuals and teams, and working towards producing a strong solution to better the workflow of the users. Now I'd love to bring that drive to your engineering team!
As a developer, I'm most interested in bringing together my past experiences in the industry, and my passion for wildlife and sustainability to help make a lasting impact in the world of ecology and conservation.
Preferred locations
- Colorado Springs, CO
- Denver, CO
Previous industries
Skills
Currently learning
Projects
Kind Kitchen
Kind Kitchen
Tools Used
Kind Kitchen is a simple recipe app designed around the concept of throwing together a list of random ingredients from a pantry, and making something delicious! Users can search by a dish name, list of ingredients, and further refine their search to filter by dish style, meal type, and dietary preferences.
Learning goals and contributions:
- Consume multiple 3rd party APIs to inform a front-end application
- Implement user image uploads with an S3 integration
- Leverage Google OAuth for seamless user registration and log in
Experience Exchange
Experience Exchange
Tools Used
Experience Exchange is a social media-lite application, bringing like-minded people together to bond and form friendships through the sharing of skills and experiences. Users can fill out a profile with skills they'd like to share and learn, and search for others based on skillset and distance.
Learning goals and contributions:
- Provide standard CRUD and query functionality for a front-end team, leveraging REST API standards
- Improve reliability and protability by dockerizing and deploying multiple microservices around the core application
- Communicate across a full-stack development team, establishing clear JSON contracts and similar handshakes
- Maintain an agile process via CI/CD workflows, using CircleCI and Heroku
