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Xander Hendry

Back End Engineer
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About me

I'm a back end software developer with a diverse background, including experience in cosmetology and sales, which has equipped me with the ability to thrive independently or collaboratively. In the past year, I've immersed myself in the world of Ruby. In this time I’ve developed strong aptitudes for debugging, navigating unfamiliar material, and collaborative problem solving.

Preferred locations

  • Denver, CO
  • Portland, OR
  • Salt Lake City, UT
  • Burlington, VT
  • Seattle, WA
Open to other locations and/or remote work

Previous industries

  • Cosmetics

Skills

  • ActiveRecord
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitHub Projects
  • GraphQL
  • Heroku
  • HTML5
  • PostgreSQL
  • Postico
  • Postman
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Slack
  • SQL
  • Visual Studio

Currently learning

  • C#
  • .NET

Projects

Tavern Keeper (Back End)

Tavern Keeper (Back End)

Project scope time 200 hours
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Tools Used

  • CircleCI
  • GraphQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • Render
  • Ruby

This application is a Dungeons and Dragons Encounter Builder, with the intended user being a Dungeon Master. It allows the user to fill out a form to add encounter details including encounter name, party size, party level, summary, description, treasure & rewards, and monsters. Monsters from the D&D 5e compendium can be filtered and added based on size, name, hit points, and armor class attributes.

This GraphQL API handles the backend functionality including:

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Sweater Weather

Sweater Weather

Project scope time 40 hours
Collaborators

Tools Used

  • ActiveRecord
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • Ruby

Sweater Weather is an API only app that was built as the final solo project for our 3rd quarter at Turing. In this project we were challenged to create an app based on the needs of a hypothetical front end team. We were provided with a list of wireframes, and the data that the FE team would need to populate the web page. The purpose of the app is to provide a 5 day forecast at a given destination, or the weather at time of arrival. The app also handles user sign up and login. I aggregate data from Weather and Travel API's to provide a forecast from the given destination.

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