Welcome

Friends & Family call me Jake.

I enjoy building software and services that solve problems, particularly in the intersections where data and people meet.

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Certifications

Engineering Leadership

Strengths-Based and Values-Based Approaches, Decision-Making Modes, Collaborative & Courageous Communication, Influence & Motivation

Kubernetes Application Developer

Through Linux Foundation
cert no. LF-2jtyhllngl

MongoDB Certified Developer Associate

Through mongodb university
cert no. 330208369

OpenJS Certified Node Application Developer

Through the linux foundation, leveraging core node apis for interacting with data streams, os modules, fs handling, process flow, async...
cert no. LF-0te91c2whv

Certified Professional Scrum Master

Scrum is a framework that teams can use to enable team-wide transparency, inspection & adaptation while developing & delivering complex products.

How to Manage a Remote Team

Best Practices, Managing Remote Team Members, Distributed Team Cultures & Values - all through a partnership between Gitlab and Coursera
(Certificate)

Technologies

HTML

Webpage structuring - the core of web content delivery.

CSS

Styling HTML

JS

Interacting with the dom && server logic

TypeScript

linting on steroids

D3

Data Driven Documents

React

UI Component & State Management

Storybook

Component Playground & Documentation

Babel

Transpiling Dev-Friendly code for browsers

Webpack

Bundling, minifying, chunking, managing code for production optimization

Cypress

End-To-End Testing with JS

Jest

JS Testing

Testing Library

The modern easy-to-use testing library

Postman

API Testing

Enzyme

React Component Testing

Analytics

Visualization & Analysis Data

Node

Server-Side JS

Nginx

Rever Proxying, Load Balancing

Express

Node Server Framework

MongoDB

Document data storage - consumer-first schemas.

PostGres

The relational datastore

GitLab

Repo Hosting, CI/CD Automation Pipelines, Workflow Management

Docker

Abstracting-Away the OS

Kubernetes

Orchestrating Containers

Bash

The Shell

Keynote

Presenting Ideas alongside Visuals

Projects

Slice-n-Dice Times

An interactive newspaper-influenced UI, analyzing textual themes in the president's Innaugural Address.

WEO Country Categories Mapped

Zoom, toggle, & hover in this map of the countries of the world categorically colored by their GNI per capita.

Mastering D3v5

An online course I created covering D3v5, interactive mapping, linked visualizations, 3rd party api integration & more.

Restaurant Node API

No NPM - No dependencies - just Node: account & cart management (CRUD), a cli, auth, stripe & mailgun api integration, logging & more.

SayWhat?!

Look at patterns in the text of presidential inaugural addresses in this data-viz focused, full-stack, mobile-first responsive project.

R.I Stats

Review Poverty & Income levels in Rhode Island through simple charts & maps.

CT Housing Permits, Mapped

An interactive choropleth mapping project, representing the range of housing permits issued per town in Connecticut in 2018.

Enterprise Resource Planner

A time-tracking, ticket-based, resource management system. I do not own the code to this project.

MyMiles

Record, edit & export vehicle mileage logs in this responsive app.

MacroRecipes

Find Recipes based on ingredients and gram counts of carbs, calories, fat, and protein.