About Vin
- Economics grad from the University of Scranton - my original passion is data and analytics.
- Experienced software developer who started out in mainframe technology writing code for United Healthcare. This experience led me to pursue a career in Web Development.
- Comfortable creating responsive front-end designs with css/sass or css frameworks but prefer the creative freedom the former allows.
- Comfortable using JavaScript and frameworks such as jQuery to manipulate the DOM and fluent in its object oriented aspects.
- Server-side knowledge includes Node.js / building RESTful Api's using Express.js.
- Experience using relational -mysql - and non-relational -mongoDB - database systems.
- Experience building full-stack MERN applications using React.js.
Work
- Full-stack forum application || A place to interact with other users and share ideas in a reddit like forum environment.
- Technology: node, express, mysql, javascript, express, ajax, handlebars, html, css, sass.
- Hosted on Heroku - Node and Express used to build server and Api.
- Front-end incorporates Handlebars templating and plain css using SCSS precompiler.
- Second iteration utilizes end-to-end authentication system, password encryption, and replaces HTML templating with react.js.
- Second iteration uses Watson API to analyze the sentiment of user comments.
- Plain CSS and SCSS pre-compiler used in both instances
- Informative Beer application meant for a beer novice to explore different types of beers.
- Technology: html, javascript, jquery, ajax, client side data persistence.
- uses untappd API and google maps for data and interaction.
- front end uses html/css without frameworks and javascript/jquery to manipulate DOM.
- If your interested in learning about different types of beers, hit the link!
- Simple application that interacts with NYT API to return articles based on user query
- First Evolution is a simple single page application that uses jQuery.
- Second Evolution is a full MERN stack version that is hosted on Heroku and uses Mongo to store articles the user wants to save.
- Try out the links!
- React Applications that allows you to like or dislike dogs to become friends with them.
Other functionality includes searching for dog pictures based on the type of breed you are looking for.
- Views handled with react.js framework
- Axios is used to aquire data and react-router is used for routing.
- If you like doggos, I implore you to check the link!
- Command Line Application (Node) that replicates an online store providing different functionality for the customer/manager or supervisor.
- stores products/inventory/department information.
- Check the link for a detailed walkthrough of this application. *walkthrough in progress*
- Full-stack application displaying the user with a list of burgers that can be eaten or restored - because who doesn't like burgers ?
- Uses sequelize for data manipulation.
- Uses handlebars for templating.
- Check the link and eat some burgers!