I am a software developer with experience building full stack applications using Javascript, Ruby on Rails, React, Redux, MongoDB, Node.js, Express.js and SQL.
When I am not coding, I enjoy watching series from my favorite showrunners (check out my "ShowRunner Digest" project to checkout a few showrunners and their series!). I also like to garden, cook and intake music (preferably live). I am always looking to learn new skills, currently I am sharpening my Python skills.
Media Cloud Web Tools is a fullstack platform that supports researchers in media analysis by providing two integrated applications. The Directory application, built with a Django Rest Framework backend and a React frontend, offers multiple CRUD interfaces for managing media sources, collections, feeds, and their relationships. The Search application enables researchers to query the Media Cloud Elasticsearch index through a streamlined “Simple Search” tool, use a Media Picker modal to select specific sources or collections, and export results such as data summaries and URLs for further analysis.
Media Cloud Vitals is a lightweight, responsive dashboard designed to monitor the Media Cloud ecosystem’s performance and uptime in real time. Built with efficient API calls, the application provides live status updates while remaining optimized for speed and minimal resource usage, making it easy to deploy andmaintain.
Flux is a trip planner, designed to coordinate logistics among groups, which allows users to make a travel plan and invite other users to collaborate on their plan and add suggestions, make comments, and upvote and downvote comments. In this project, I crafted a MongoDB noSQL database with polymorphic associations to better integrate users and their plans, facilitated React DateRange correspondence with the MongoDB database to ensure data visualization accuracy in React components, correct formatting for trip dates, and accurate representation of the length of trips and ensured proper information flow, using Mongoose methods, to better populate Axios responses to the front end of the site.
WhereBNB is an AirBNB-inspired full stack web application where users can browse rental listings, book stays, and leave reviews. I built modals using CSS3 and React that provide a seamless user experience, including simplified processes for logging in, logging out, leaving reviews and booking stays, engineered a React search component with a custom Rails route combined with an ActiveRecord request to a PostgreSQL database, which allowed for dynamic interaction with the database and robust search responses from the Rails API and incorporated Google Maps API to track user interaction with the map in order to better navigate and browse listings.
ShowRunner Digest allows users to discover information about television’s most popular showrunners. Users can select their favorite showrunner and explore a bar graph visualization that contains titles and ratings of the selected showrunner’s television series. Using Fetch API, I transformed response data from TVmaze API, a digital television guide, into usable objects, which were then used to create the bar chart visualizations that utilized the D3.js library. I implemented an interactive stock ticker utilizing CSS3 and JS event handlers, which trigger an automatic rerender of the bar chart to reflect a user’s selected showrunner. I incorporated television graphics, by using JavaScript click handlers to toggle classes on various HTML elements and CSS with JS asynchronicity to handle gif animations, which allowed for greater user experience when interacting with showrunners.