Blythe,

Front-end* Engineer

Collaboration with stakeholders, project managers and designers was crucial at Soomo. When working on new features I followed designs provided by the UX team and worked closely with them to ensure the final product met the collective vision. I’ve also done some light work on the Rails backend when needed.

Most of the code I wrote at Soomo was TypeScript / React. Redux and Redux-Toolkit were the go-to for state management and client-side networking. We used UI frameworks like Chakra and MUI for rapid UI development. I also wrote automated test suites in Cypress and Playwright.

My biggest accomplishments during my time at Soomo were:

• Re-engineering the content rendering system to go from server-side rendered Rails templates to a fully client-side React renderer.
• Implemented the system that allows instructors to preview content and request to sign-up to use the platform.
• Migrated the marketing site from Gatsby to Next.

* This position was initially full-stack focused, so I wasn’t strictly focused on the front-end in the beginning. This shift happened overtime based on a mixture of the needs of the projects I was working on and my personal tastes!

Full-stack Developer

At TechLink, I worked on a variety of projects for clients. We worked together as a team to design and engineer applications from the ground up that met the needs we gathered from the clients.

We created web applications using React and Vue for the front-end. For the back-end, we used Express to create REST APIs and platform tools like Cognito from AWS to handle users. Additionally, we created mobile apps using React-Native or NativeScript (Vue).

Web Developer

Kinetic Multisports is a triathlon production company with unique technical needs! During my time working with them, I worked on a variety of projects:

• Developed an OpenCart web store to serve their budding e-commerce needs.
• Building a webcrawling suite (using Node) to scrape data from their old website after becoming independent from their previous parent company.
• Constructed a custom analytics dashboard using D3 and Python to visualize customer data for marketing purposes.
• General consulting on their fast expanding WordPress website.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

My course work at Western was mainly Java based, but also included some Python. I received a solid foundation in computer science principles, like algorithms and data structures.

During my time at University, I studied web development in my own time. Picking up some freelance work and learning so much about practical software development.

I chose to do my senior capstone in React because I sensed it was the future of web development.

Intern

During the summer before my senior year of high school, I had an internship at 519 Games in Durham, NC. I was responsible for creating build scripts in XML that were used in a continuous integration system.