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
![Screenshot detail for project Kind Kitchen](https://terminal.turing.edu/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBdDFvIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--93ed56c6a19e6357da6007aa9d6413ffaa2c6042/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJY0c1bkJqb0dSVlE2RW5KbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5bWFYUmJCMmtDSUFOcEFsZ0MiLCJleHAiOm51bGwsInB1ciI6InZhcmlhdGlvbiJ9fQ==--2f17d7aa4c6dab9e37d7af2bdbb7d452b5fd576d/Screenshot%202024-01-05%20at%203.36.29%20PM.png)
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
![Screenshot detail for project Experience Exchange](https://terminal.turing.edu/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBdDVvIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--7922dd06be64c79357d9d3e4853ba2edd88c4a5f/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJY0c1bkJqb0dSVlE2RW5KbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5bWFYUmJCMmtDSUFOcEFsZ0MiLCJleHAiOm51bGwsInB1ciI6InZhcmlhdGlvbiJ9fQ==--2f17d7aa4c6dab9e37d7af2bdbb7d452b5fd576d/Screenshot%202024-01-05%20at%203.40.25%20PM.png)
![Screenshot thumbnail #1 for project Experience Exchange](https://terminal.turing.edu/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBdDVvIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--7922dd06be64c79357d9d3e4853ba2edd88c4a5f/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJY0c1bkJqb0dSVlE2RW5KbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5bWFYUmJCMmtDSUFOcEFsZ0MiLCJleHAiOm51bGwsInB1ciI6InZhcmlhdGlvbiJ9fQ==--2f17d7aa4c6dab9e37d7af2bdbb7d452b5fd576d/Screenshot%202024-01-05%20at%203.40.25%20PM.png)
![Screenshot thumbnail #2 for project Experience Exchange](https://terminal.turing.edu/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBdDlvIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--19be643e8c4991e5fe5a055933ca3e26879eea6b/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJY0c1bkJqb0dSVlE2RW5KbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5bWFYUmJCMmtDSUFOcEFsZ0MiLCJleHAiOm51bGwsInB1ciI6InZhcmlhdGlvbiJ9fQ==--2f17d7aa4c6dab9e37d7af2bdbb7d452b5fd576d/Screenshot%202024-01-05%20at%203.40.13%20PM.png)