I've been programming for longer than I can remember. Many of my old projects have been lost to the sands of time, but a few yet remain. My most recent projects are the ones that I'm the most proud of, and you can find more details about then below. I built most of these projects by myself from the ground up.
In addition to the projects below, I'm currently (as of July, 2020) the Tech Lead on the Growth team at TaskRabbit.
CapTrav
Along with another developer, I built the MVP for CapTrav, a multi-tenant business travel expense tracker, in Ruby on Rails. Feature work owned by myself included a map showing current traveler locations; a dashboard report with graphs, charts, and tables; and in-place editing of data on administrator pages.
Vital Info
- Dates: 2018 - 2018
- Platforms: Web
- Tech: Ruby on Rails 5.0, RSpec, Capybara, PostgreSQL
Pricer Pro
Originally intended to compete with CamelCamelCamel and other established Amazon price trackers, Pricer Pro has since pivoted into being a general affiliate marketing website. Pricer Pro is a profitable website that showed me I could have a future as professional web developer.
Vital Info
- Dates: 2017 - 2020
- Platforms: Web
- Tech: Ruby on Rails 5.0, RSpec, Capybara, React, Jbuilder, MySQL, NGINX, Phusion Passenger, Amazon EC2, Amazon ELB, Amazon Auto Scaling, Amazon SES, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon PA API
Bloopist
I couldn't find a simple blogging platform with the features I wanted, so I made my own. Features include the following:
- Scheduled posts
- Post publishing queue
- Source code syntax highlighting
- Drag-and-drop image upload
- Markdown formatting
- Near real-time post previews
- Custom domain and root path support
Vital Info
- Dates: 2014 - Present
- Platforms: Web
- Tech: Ruby on Rails 4.1 upgraded to 5.0, RSpec, Capybara, MySQL, NGINX, Phusion Passenger, Amazon EC2, Amazon SES, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS
BarStack
BarStack answers the question, "What should I drink tonight?" Tell it the ingredients you have on hand (liquor, mixers, etc.), and BarStack will tell you what you can make. It'll also suggest ingredients to buy to maximize the number of recipes you can make.
Vital Info
- Dates: 2012 - 2014
- Platforms: Web, Android, Windows
- Tech: Ruby on Rails 3.2 upgraded to 4.0, RABL, RSpec, Capybara, MySQL, NGINX, Phusion Passenger, Amazon EC2, Amazon SES, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS
Open Hardware Hub
A place for people to post open-source hardware projects including source code and all documentation needed to reproduce their projects. My friend Daniel Yang did most of the development, and I provided the ideas and direction for the site. This was the first project that exposed me to Ruby on Rails.
Vital Info
- Dates: 2011 - 2012
- Platforms: Web
- Tech: Ruby on Rails
Photo by Christopher Gower