Hello, welcome! I originally started coding because I needed to make my auctions on eBay look better so I could sell my glass back in the early 2000's. Along the way I started building applications in Excel with VBA exploring the possibilities. I've since built business tools for my glass business to track various accounting and inventory aspects, and color coded display calendar so I can see at a glance where my business is at and what needs to be done.
Eventually I went to school at Alchemy Code Lab for web development officially in the fall of 2022 and learned a full stack of React/ Node/ Express with multiple group projects and enjoyed the collaborative efforts and friends I made. School closed on us without warning 3/4 of the way through, so we continued on our training on our own meeting up and creating new projects.
I started and have been working on a project for almost 2 yrs now learning and incorporating all kinds of technologies and techniques, from error handling to testing, encryption of sensitive data to security policies. I'm familiarizing myself with AWS- Cognito, S3 buckets, CloudFront are so far implemented, as well as caching with Redis and instant messaging with WebSockets.
I'm looking for a new opportunity to head in this direction professionally, so if you're in the world of coding, please feel free to get in touch and connect. I'm here coding and building and learning as much as possible in the meantime. If you have any questions or want to connect please feel free to check my repos out or get in touch through any of the links below.
Using my creativity and passion to create excellent tools that work well and enhance the human experience is my jam.
Resume
Projects
At The Fire At The Fire is a subscription-based social media, business software, and gallery site designed for artists to showcase their collections and offer their work for sale. Collectors are welcome to subscribe as well. The platform features a tiered subscription model�basic accounts are free, while a paid subscription unlocks business accounting and sales analysis tools. Artists can create posts, manage inventory, track sales, analyze production, set goals & monitor performance.
A company created by yours truly:Stress Less Glass I've been self employed blowing glass for a living for 26 yrs, and I built this site to help me display and sell my glass to collectors. This solo project is React/ Node/ Express and it has an admin page with a list of posts where I can manage all my content. All images are uploaded to/ hosted on Cloudinary via their SDK on my Express server. A work in progress- V2 will allow video uploads as well as a inventory summary/ detail page, coming soon because I need to sell some glass while looking for development work :)
Introducing: Error Affirmations This group project is actually a set of apps that work together and share a database: a custom Jest reporter, a VS Code extension, and a website for users to add to (we are up to 2.8K users and growing!). The Jest reporter adds an affirmation to your terminal upon any failed tests. It is customizable with different themes. The extension has an affirmation presented on opening VS Code, and offers affirmations on command. Users can also log into our website and add to the list of affirmations which will be added to the database all the apps draw from.
MJ Cheat Sheet: AI-Powered Cannabis Intelligence MJ Cheat Sheet is an advanced AI-driven platform that facilitates finding the right cannabis product for a customer with unique needs. Our smart search and AI assistant, the Big Lebowlski, processes cannabis data to provide intelligent strain analysis, effect predictions, and personalized recommendations. The AI continuously learns from user interactions and new product data, ensuring accurate and up-to-date insights. If a product/ strain is missing, users can create or update the database that all users draw from.
Diagrams
These are a couple of current projects in the works I made diagrams for- the first is a group project, and by far my most complicated data flow concept. It's incorporating AWS Cognito/ Stripe API webhooks/ Cloudinary services all together. The 2nd is a garden tracker app I built in VBA which will also be an upcoming app- so I can't show you too much ;)
