Project - Safeway One Touch Fuel App

Lead Backend developer on the Safeway One Touch Fuel application.

Features

-Pay and activate the gas pump from your iOS or Android device
-Locate gas stations near you
-Apply rewards points for a discount
-Get a receipt in the app

Technologies

-NodeJS backend deployed on Azure Functions serverless platform
-CosmosDB NoSQL database
-Push notifications from the backend to device on pump activation and when receipt is ready
-Azure Devops for CI/CD

Project - Outfitter

Live at : https://outfitter.fly.dev
outfitter-screenshot
GitHub
A Ruby on Rails app for assembling outfits with the clothes items in your closet. Rails 7, SQLite, and ActiveStorage for image storage and optimization. Deployed on Fly.io.

Project - Opera Singer Content Management System and Website

Live at : https://www.meredithhansen.com
singer-screenshot
GitHub
A custom content management system built with Ruby on Rails for powering websites for opera singers. The user can log in to CRUD her bio, images, scheduled performaces, and other content.
This Portfolio site you are visiting includes a custom mobile-friendly, sticky nav menu intended for tiny websites (GitHub) and the contact form uses a serverless function in the Azure cloud to send your information (GitHub).
Sepp Hammer photo

Skills/Tools—

JavaScript (ES5 and ES6), MongoDB, Express, React, NodeJS, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, Active Record, jQuery, AJAX, Bootstrap, Git/GitHub, Azure, Azure DevOps, Serverless functions and architecture

I enjoy solving problems creatively, thinking deeply and out of the box to find ideal answers. My happy-place is working on applications in a full-stack context, in which I understand how features are implemented end to end. That way I can have impact on everything from the efficiency of server-side code to the visual user experience.

Coding and web development is a second chapter of sorts in my professional life, as I previously spent over a decade focused on building a career as a professional classically trained singer. Whether in learning music, studying physics for my bachelor's degree, or now coding, I've always enjoyed taking a process or problem and breaking it down into succinct steps. In particular I've found many parallels between reading music and code. In both cases you train your eye to catch details of syntax and learn to recognize higher-level patterns that map to big-picture processes and ideas.

Web development is also an outlet for the same creative impulses I direct toward music. I get to geek out on the details of the technology, but at the end of the day I'm building an application with a user experience people will respond to on a gut level.

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