This wellness tracker allows the user to log sleep, nutrition, and exercise habits. Users can log in with their Facebook or Github profile. Built using React (with Redux), Express, and PostgreSQL, I chose to build this app in order to solidify my knowledge of Javascript and React, while still introducing newly learned concepts.

Challenges:

• - Managing the size of a relatively larger application.
• - Properly using API calls, for both the Facebook and Github OAuth logins and the Edamam food database API.
• - Implementing Redux, as well as react-router and redux-thunk, in a larger application.

Metro On Time is an open-source project that aims to provide L.A. Metro and its riders accurate, digestible train reliability data. It is built with React and Next.js on the front-end and Node, Express, and Python on the back-end.

My major contribution to this project thus far is a history tab that allows users to access past metro reliability data in a visually appealing manner. I am currently working on other data visualization efforts, including a redesign of the main page.

Challenges:

• - Quickly learning frameworks such as Next.js and Material UI on the front-end and Amazon S3 on the back-end
• - Manipulating a large dataset to display historical data in chart form based on various X-axis and Y-axis user inputs
• - Building an optimal and low-cost path to grab historical data from the database

Jobs For Hope is an open-source project done in conjunction with the L.A. Homeless Initiative. The service is meant to aggregate job opportunities for homeless service providers so that non-profit workers can find a job that matches their skillset. It is built with React on the front-end and Node, Express, and PostgreSQL on the back-end.

My major, ongoing contribution to the site has been to create an authentication system that allows employers to create accounts and post jobs as they would on any other job board. I have done this from the ground-up using Express, Passport.js, Express-Session, and bcrypt.

Challenges:

• - Learning the intracacies of encryption, cookies, and session management
• - Creating an authentication flow that allows site admins to approve accounts before they are allowed to post jobs
• - Following authentication best practices

Utilizing CSS + Javascript on top of a SquareSpace template, I am helping Sloane + Silver Realty construct a website to help display their luxury listings in the greater L.A. area.

Built using React, Express, and PostgreSQL, Nota Bene was my first attempt at creating a full-stack web application from scratch. The app allows a user to create and store notes, in a manner similar to the iPhone's Notes app. Users can log in at any time to access their notes.

Challenges:

• - Tying my front-end and back-end knowledge together into one cohesive app
• - Managing my application's state in React to allow for seamless creation and deletion of notes, as well as maintaining an order based on last edit time
• - Keeping the notes data on the front-end consistent with the notes data in the database