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Steddman Bell

Back End Engineer
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About me

Hello!

I am a previous QA Analyst transformed into a dev. I hail from Northern California since I have never felt like I was home until I landed here. I am prior service Air Force. I am a father to one. I love trails and race tracks or just working on/looking at things that go on trails and race tracks. I also look for ways to continuously improve and make a positive change.

Preferred locations

  • Sacramento, CA
  • San Jose, CA
Open to other locations and/or remote work

Previous industries

  • Food & Beverages
  • Insurance
  • Marketing and Advertising
  • Military

Skills

  • ActiveRecord
  • Apple
  • AR
  • Automated QA
  • Bootstrap
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitHub Projects
  • Heroku
  • iOS
  • Mentorship
  • Miro
  • PostgreSQL
  • Postico
  • Postman
  • Quality Assurance / QA
  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby
  • Slack
  • User Authentication
  • Visual Studio

Currently learning

  • Continuous Integration
  • DevOps
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • Python
  • Redis
  • Software Architecture

Projects

Fruga

Fruga

Project scope time 160 hours
Collaborators

Tools Used

  • CircleCI
  • Continuous Integration
  • CSS3
  • Cypress
  • Heroku
  • HTML5
  • Miro
  • PostgreSQL
  • Postman
  • Python
  • Rails
  • React
  • RSpec
  • Ruby
  • TypeScript
  • Visual Studio

Built with micro-service architecture, starting with lightweight FastAPI python file and a slim rails api with database backend and a React + Vite with TypeScript front end. The LLM is powered by OpenAI ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo currently. Solves the problem of getting started with budgeting and can be easy and fun to use. Can visually see budget in pie chart and get a recommendation from AI.

Launch the App Code Repository
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Lunch and Learn

Lunch and Learn

Project scope time 32 hours
Collaborators

Tools Used

  • PostgreSQL
  • Postico
  • Postman
  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby

Built from the ground up with Rails following RESTful API framework as much as possible to adhere to best design practices.

Implemented CRUD functionality to facilitate complete data operations by the user on the server

Code Repository
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Matter Daddy

Matter Daddy

Project scope time 3 hours
Collaborators

Tools Used

  • Bootstrap
  • CSS3
  • HTML5
  • Rails
  • Ruby

A Hackathon project that mimics a joke generator website.

Very responsive and easy to navigate. Has a singular button in the beginning to enter the joke zone. After clicking, sends you to the punch line and has a button to redirect to GitHub repo and generate another joke.

Launch the App Code Repository
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