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Tayla Phillips

Front End Engineer
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About me

Former higher education professional with strengths in strategic thinking and relationship building. Excited to lend my enthusiasm, organization skills, and adaptability to innovative and collaborative teams!

Preferred locations

  • Atlanta, GA
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Nashville, TN
Open to other locations and/or remote work

Previous industries

  • Higher Education

Skills

  • Chai
  • CSS3
  • Cypress
  • Express
  • Figma
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitHub Projects
  • HTML5
  • JavaScript
  • Mocha
  • Postman
  • React
  • Render
  • TypeScript

Currently learning

  • Knex
  • PHP
  • SQL

Projects

Brain Defrost

Brain Defrost

Project scope time 35 hours
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Tools Used

  • CSS3
  • Cypress
  • Figma
  • HTML5
  • Postman
  • React
  • TypeScript

Mod 4 Capstone

  • Web app that utilizes AI to allow users to generate a trivia game based on a category they provide
  • Features e-2-e test suite of 11 passing acceptance tests for general user stories, gameplay, and error handling
  • CI/CD pipeline used throughout development
  • Responsive app layout
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Stardew Friends

Stardew Friends

Project scope time 20 hours
Collaborators

Tools Used

  • CSS3
  • Cypress
  • Express
  • HTML5
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Web app and backend API for users to research non-player characters and track friendships
  • Local storage used to have user input persist between sessions
  • Backend features hand-rolled data and endpoints for each CRUD method
  • Includes e-2-e suite of 6 passing acceptance tests testing user stories and error handling
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Spilled

Spilled

Project scope time 30 hours
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Tools Used

  • CSS3
  • Cypress
  • HTML5
  • Postman
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Web app designed for users to browse and favorite different types of tea.
  • Developed during one week sprint while self-teaching and using a new technology (Typescript)
  • Developed e-2-e suite of 9 passing acceptance tests
  • Features informative error handling for users and responsive design
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Travel Tracker

Travel Tracker

Project scope time 24 hours
Collaborators

Tools Used

  • Chai
  • CSS3
  • Figma
  • HTML5
  • JavaScript
  • Mocha
  • Visual Studio
  • Webpack
  • Allows a user to login to their dashboard to view past trips and plan new ones!
  • Utilizes API requests to retrieve and post user-generated input
  • TDD approach - test suite includes 25 unit tests
  • Accessibility audits conducted with Lighthouse and WAVE Chrome extension
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