About me, Week 1

In the process of doing amazing things, no one thing defines my potential.

Hi! I’m Josh, I’m currently a software developer. Just a little bit about myself. Most recently, I’ve become very interested in mastering AWS along with Docker and Kubernetes. I’m close to actual certification for my AWS certificate and have collected a Flatiron School certificate for completing the immersive, rigorous yet fulfilling software engineering program.

One of the things I’ve always wanted is to design something that others could use across the country. In those efforts, I’ve created my capstone, which happens to be an extension of the resume builder I had been working on 6 weeks early for the duration of one week. The features I was able to improve upon, was creating functionality for user resume’s to be stored with a PostgreSQL database using Rails as the backend framework. And persisting the information stored in the database over on the frontend which I managed to write purely in vanilla JS. A lot of talking just now.

I’d love to give you all a quick demo!

Once we log in you can see that we have a mock resume for myself. Just for demonstration purposes we can change the phone number and mission statement once we enter edit mode. In this case all the sections already exist. So we can just click to update the header, vs. adding a new header. It does update pretty quickly.

It’s 100% possible to edit current information in any of these sections but also add additional information to any section as necessary. Say I completed a new project, I’m able to make that addition to the resume like so, and it cleanly adds it just like that. The Css formats it nicely onto the page, too.

It actually has a base layout for even if you’re a new user. I’m not gonna go into that right now but If I wanted to build out a new resume from scratch it’s super easy and I think that ease of use functionality is what I was really trying to go for while designing this project.

All the hyperlinks will send you exactly whatever you type in to the respective input fields for those edit form fields.

If you want to checkout my LinkedIn I’d love to connect with ya and chat any further about my projects or if you had any questions.

Again, this project was built purely with vanilla JS, HTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails w/ a PostgreSQL database, and then Heroku and Firebase for deployment.

There were difficulties throughout every phase building out this project but I would say the thing that really allowed it to keep forward progression was taking everything in thin vertical slices. I built this project with a base level functionality and made it forward facing so as each feature was completed, the user had the capability to use that feature before moving on to the next tiny thing. I had 17 pull requests and commits on my backend repository which wasn’t that much at least compared to the roughly over 50 pull requests and commits on my frontend repository to closely document changes and additions to the codebase for every feature and modification that I made.

You can look me up my by nickname joshycsm, I’m pretty active on LinkedIn right now. I’m pretty good about responding to messages in an extremely timely manner most times. Would love to connect with all of you if we aren’t already.

Thank you so much for your time everyone.