Hello!
I'm just a person who loves making things work.
In my current role I specialize in working with Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, and AWS. I also spend
a lot of time mentoring, mostly working with career changers studying full time JavaScript.
At work, as a Senior Software Engineer for data engineering I'm responsible for big
picture decisions,
building and optimizing data pipelines, new feature development, and training other team members.
While I'm always game for learning something new, these technologies
are my home turf.
I spent my first four years as a software engineer working broadly fullstack,
with my primary specialties
being VueJS and SQL. I quickly switched from a first role using C# to specializing in
Python, which I've stuck with.
In 2020 I began working primarily backend and this year I further
specialized by joining the
data engineering team at my work, which lets me hone in on my love for data
pipelines and SQL.
I'm interested in...
In my free time, I am a freelance writer for tech and database companies like
Serialized.io, FaunaDB,
and Netlify. I mentor career-changers on things like algorithms, data modeling, and
JavaScript. I also give tech
talks on things like SQL and virtualization.
CHECK OUT SOME OF MY TECH TALKS
This was a two hour SQL workshop I led for ~20 students using
SQLFiddle and PostgreSQL to illustrate core database concepts.
Virtualization history & basics
A tech talk covering history of virtualization and a timeline
of virtualization tools up into the container age.
Node ecosystem crash course
A quick survey of a full stack NodeJS ecosystem app using a
VueJS frontend
A critical look at imposter syndrome through the lens of being an
underrepresented person in technology, with a splash of sociology theory
CHECK OUT SOME OF MY WRITING
Part I of a two part series on the tool ecosystem for removing sensitive
information from upstream repository history
CHECK OUT SOME OF MY MENTORING DEMOS
As part of being a Code The Dream mentor I do assignments with the students
so we can go through them together in sessions.This was a version of
the classic battleship game, made during our Web Fundamentals unit
CHECK OUT SOME OF MY WORK
A Python/Django Rest Framework API on postgreSQL that serves a single page
app I made separately with Vue.
A Vue.js single page application served by the API backend I made
previously. This was a fun one because I made the fortune cookie using design software
called Vectr
A Python/Django app detailing some of my technical misadventures, like the
time I bought an iMac to take apart and put back together.
Coming soon, some fun with qcows and virtual debian images!
This app was made for me and my siblings to write memories of our dad, who
passed away not long ago
and was my inspiration for becoming an engineer. I built this with Ruby/Rails,
posgreSQL, and Skeleton
This one let me get a bit more professional since I was now armed with media
queries!
I didn't use a framework for this one and through much trial and error I got the project
grid
to look perfect, even on devices as small as an iPhone 5.
This is a python scraper I made using BeautifulSoup that scrapes the top one
hundred results from a Chinese media site and saves
them into a CSV file. After struggling to figure out the scraper wanted to use x-path
selectors the rest was very easy.
Although some of my earliest web work, I actually still like the aesthetic I
created while redesigning an outdated charter school's website. I utilized CSS and HTML
for this project.
This was another early work made with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Games are a
great way to get a firm handle on the rules of engagement
for object-oriented programming.
This let me work with Mongo, Node, and Vue which I really enjoyed. It gives you a monthly
horoscope inspired by HTTP status codes.
This was an experiment with PHP and is a site where I document technical
adventures through the lens of
being a woman in a largely male field.
Another HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript project where control flow is used
to
establish game and win logic.
This is an MLH hackathon project built using MongoDB, Flask, React, Material
UI, and the Twilio API to send text and email alerts
about the number of coronavirus cases.