>> Software Engineer
Passionate about building testable, scalable software, with a focus on APIs and backend systems. I'm comfortable anywhere on the stack and have worked with a variety of technologies during the course of my journey as a professional software engineer.
Developer
Node JS
Years experience: 3+
Have used it for:
- - App Development
- - REST API Development
- - CLI Tool Development
Go
Years experience: 2+
Have used it for:
- - REST API Development
React JS
Years experience: 3+
Have used it for:
- - UI Development
PostgreSQL
Years experience: 3+
Have used it for:
- - Database
- - Data Extraction
- - Data Normalization
GitHub
Years experience: 3+
Have used it for:
- - Database ORM
- - Data Modeling
- - Data Extraction
Git
Years experience: 3+
Have used it for:
- - Version Control
- - Feature Branch Management
- - Release Tracking
Journey
My education about and entrance into software development came about in a non-traditional manner: after working as an educator for seven years, I took a leap and enrolled in the first cohort of the Coding Bootcamp at UT Austin, an intensive, job-skills-focused alternative education program, from April - October 2016. We moved quickly, covering full stack technologies, including Javascript (Node, jQuery, React), MySQL, MongoDB, HTML and CSS, among others. At the end of the program, I earned a position as a software engineer at a (now defunct) startup in Austin, TX. Currently, I work for J-Curve Technologies as a Software Engineer, building a data analytics and workforce management platform for contact center operations (among other projects).
1983
Birthday
1 of 2 children (older sister)
2001
Completed High School
Played on the state-champion Golf Team
2001
(moved to Baton Route, LA)
2005
Complete Bachelor's Degree
Foreign Languages & Literatures (Latin)
2006
(moved back home (Sulphur / Lake Charles, LA))
2006
Played keyboard/piano in 'Paper Plains'
Indie rock band (wrote original music)
2009
Completed Master's Degree
Master's in the Arts of Teaching - Foreign Languages / English
2009
High School Teacher - Latin, Mythology
Taught Latin I - IV and Mythology
2011
(moved to Madrid, Spain)
2011
English Teaching Assistant
Assisted teachers in facilitating conversations in English with students
2013
(moved back home (again))
2013
High School Teacher - Latin, Spanish
Taught Spanish II - V
2014
(moved to Austin, TX)
2014
High School Teacher - Spanish
Taught Spanish I - II
2016
The Coding Bootcamp at UT Austin
Learned Web Development in a 6-month intensive bootcamp
2016
Software Engineer @ Zilkr Technologies
Helped build UCAAS developer platform (Nodejs)
2017
Became a dad!
2018
Front-End Web Developer @ Scalable Company
Helped build CMS app
2019
Software Engineer @ J-Curve Technologies
Helping build data analytics tools