Personal Wedding Website

https://wedding.mollyandnathaniel.com

Use case

• I had the idea of creating a website that basically mimicked disposable cameras that people left at weddings. In this website I wanted to have users upload images, have an admin approve submissions, and display winners. Also, this website had a configuration to let guests RSVP to our wedding.

Tech

• The website was written in ASP.NET using C# and Postgres. Deployed on a digital ocean droplet with a Nginx edge and Certbot for certs.

Traffic

• The website had a few phases of traffic. The website served as RSVPs before the wedding and saw roughly 150 users. Then during the wedding pictures were uploaded by about 60 users. And the gallery after the wedding sees very minimal traffic.

Transferrable Skills

• I was able to act as a stakeholder and project lead to get this website up. Also, I had to learn a new stack of C# and ASP.NET to convince my friend to help me.

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Related Books Web Scraper

Use case

• Worked with a small business that uses data on Amazon and other sources to help figure out what books are related. This was a manual task to click through Amazon to find books that were related to the book that they started with.

Tech

• Used Python and Selenium to get a quick solution that would take in a parent ASIN and find any data that has books related to that title. It would output a report that would allow the business to look at similar aspects of the books and infer strategies to help author sell more books.

Traffic

• Traffic is mainly local runs of the report by either me or the business to get the data.

Transferrable Skills

• Was able to find a quick solution to solve my use case for getting this data. Using python, data classes, and selenium I was able to create a solution that has been tested with several hundred books!

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Personal Website

Github Repo

Use case

• Found a use case to create a personal space for myself to display how I present my skill outside of places like LinkedIn and Facebook. Although I haven’t used Ruby on Rails since my first coding job, I found a passion for how fast this framework helped developers create websites.

Tech

• The website was written in Ruby on Rails. Using a postgres database and had minor testing done with rspec. Deployed to a heroku box using Paper trail for logging.

Traffic

• My website saw about 1 to 2 users a week. It was mostly dedicated to professional work so would mostly see direct traffic from linkedin.

Transferrable Skills

• I was able to design a full stack website, code it, and deploy it using heroku. I think it is a good way to exercise a developer looking at all aspects of the developer life-cycle.

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API Maze Solver

Github Repo

Use case

• Having some practice with algorithms, I created a maze engine that uses the Breadth First Search algorithm to take in a maze and output the most efficient path. This project consisted of Endpoint, Service, and a start of recording submissions and other stats about the maze solves.

Tech

• This service uses Java and SpringBoot to take REST requests solve the maze.

Traffic

• This hasn't been deployed and say little traffic.

Transferrable Skills

• Ability to translate logic problem into code

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Bullseye Guy Rest API

Rest Code Docker Instance

Use case

• Created a REST API that would take in a Target ID and return various properties about the product. A way to mimic how someone may call and API for product information.

Tech

• This service was written in Java and SpringBoot and deployed into a docker container for potential scalability.

Traffic

• This hasn't been deployed and little traffic. Docker instance has been downloaded 1.2k times.

Transferrable Skills

• Ability to create a Rest API to fill a need while being able to package up code for easy deploy.

Colorado State University - Global Campus

2017-2018

Bachelor Degree - Information Technology