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About me
Back End engineer with a love for all things design! I began my tech career as a self-taught animator and web designer, which gave me glimpses into the world of coding. Before long, I was scouring every project for coding opportunities—until I finally realized I wanted to code for a living.
While I am primarily a back end engineer, I also consider myself "front end adjacent" thanks the strong visual design skills I built over my career. I leverage my design and UX background to build intuitive, user-focused applications and databases.
I'm currently developing my front end skills in order to better deliver full stack applications and fit full stack roles. Currently I'm obsessed with Tailwind (given my Rails background), but I'm also learning React and TypeScript to make myself more competitive in the job market.
Preferred locations
- Los Angeles, CA
Previous industries
Skills
Currently learning
Projects
Wildlander
Wildlander
Tools Used
Wildlander is an open source community expansion for the video game Skyrim. Since 2016, Wildlander has accrued ~110k unique users, ~20k community members, 22 contributors, and ~$120k in user donations.
The project is coded primarily in Papyrus—Skyrim's proprietary OOP language—with Lua microservices and a custom launcher built in JavaScript and TypeScript.
It also features extensive documentation, a public roadmap, and a website built in Webflow.
Platform - A Social Media Aggregator
Platform - A Social Media Aggregator
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Tools Used
Platform is a social media application that aggregates content from YouTube, Twitch, and Twitter into a singular feed, organized by creator. It allows users to follow a creator's content across multiple platforms, without the pain point of visiting each platform individually.
The application was built part-time by a cross-functional team of front end and back end developers over four weeks, with one week Agile sprints. Our shared goal for this application was to stretch across disciplines, so we built tasks into our initial planning that would allow front end to develop some back end features, and vice versa.
Platform's front end is built with TypeScript and React, while the back end is built primarily in Rails. The back end also contains a Python-based microservice for webscraping Twitter data.
- The front end utilizes React Testing Library to ensure product stability and scalability.
- The back end utilizes Honeycomb for data observability, and caches its API calls with Rails' inbuilt caching.
Lunch and Learn API
Lunch and Learn API
Tools Used
Lunch and Learn is an educational API that provides country-based recipes, historical videos, and local interests.
It is built in Rails, featuring RESTful endpoints, Rails in-built caching, and Honeycomb observability.
Consumes the following APIs: Edamam, REST Country, Unsplash, YouTube.
