About me

Hi! Thank you for taking the time to learn a little about me.

Some backstory: I'm a 2018 graduate of the Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Originally coming in as a business major, I made the decision sophomore year to switch to computer science after taking some intro classes. While at times a very challenging experience (especially coming in with essentially no background), I ultimately really enjoyed the challenge and the way it tested my capacity for logic.

Coming out of college, I wasn't sure which direction to take my career. I found myself interested in a lot of different things and enjoy being creative and working collaboratively, so I wasn't positive engineering was where I wanted to end up. Somewhat overwhelmed with options, I happened to get an email regarding a sales program at a large tech company. I applied, got the position, and ended up in Austin, Texas.

Pretty swiftly I came to the conclusion that sales (particularly lead generation) was not the path for me. I really missed problem solving and the process of building and creating something. And while I can be social, cold outreach was not my preferred avenue for satisfying that.

After making very little progress attempting to apply for engineering positions, I decided to enroll in a coding bootcamp. I honestly had a lot of gaps in my knowledge of web development and the frameworks relevant to a career in development. While I understood things like big O time complexity from college, I knew nothing about React or Ruby on Rails or MVC.

And that brings us to today! I'm now working as a Software Engineer at Oracle, which I work remotely for in Brooklyn, New York. I help develop front end components for our cloud services based in React and Typescript, and do work in Java and Terraform as well.

Outside of career ambitions, I love to stay active and engage my cultural curiosities. Studying abroad three times in college, I've been to 28 countries spanning Asia, Europe, and South America. An art history minor in school and the son of an interior designer, I love decorating my home and learning about new artists and creators. In Austin, I've played on a flag football for five seasons, and went to New York in 2019 for a national tournament.

Projects

Here you can find my (ever-changing) list of projects. Attached should be video demos, github links, and hopefully deployment links, but things here are ever-changing...

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Crossword Player

Github Demo

My Crossword Player combines a Ruby on Rails backend with a React-Redux frontend, and allows players to play a variety of crosswords that have been seeded in the backend. The application sends over JSon data which that front end utilizes to construct the crosswords, and the five top user times for a given puzzle are displayed for each puzzle.

Travel Manager

Github Demo Try it!

This application utilizes a Javascript frontend and allows users to create places to travel to and sights associated with them. These are posted to a Ruby on Rails backend where they are stored and fetched upon opening the application.

Task Manager

Github Demo Try it!

The Task Manager (built purely on Ruby on Rails) requires users to login and gives them the option of utilizing OAuth to create an account via Facebook. "Managers" can create lists associated tasks and asign them to users. Users can either view all tasks associated with a list or all tasks associated with a user, and check off completed tasks they had been assigned to.

News Collectors CLI

Github Demo

This application utilizes Nokogiri to parse the HTML in the Austin Statesmen. Users can select one of the six most recent stories, which are then formatted in a way suitable for reading in the command line.

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