jfinley6/first-contributions

🚀✨ Help beginners to contribute to open source projects

Hello Everyone 👋

I'm John Finley, I currently work as a Programmer/Assembly Tech for a company called Panther Industries. My day consists of coming up with cool and useful new tools for my coworkers to use as well as maintaining and refactoring VBA/JavaScript code. I reside out of Denver, CO and love to play disc golf. Feel free to connect.

Connect with me and ask anything on LinkedIn

🧑‍💻 About Me

👩🏻‍🎓 I'm looking for a Junior Developer/Software Engineer Position to get hands-on experience working in an agile team environment

📫 Reach me at : [email protected]

SKILLS

Coding Languages | JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, CSS, HTML

Frontend (client side) | React.js, Tailwind, Bootstrap

Backend (server side) | Ruby on Rails, ExpressJS, SQL

Tools | VS Code, Heroku, Postman, GitHub, Git

Skills | Object Relational Mapping, MVC, Deploying Sites

🔭 Personal Portfolio

Reddit Post Keyword Monitor

(Github Repo)

• Monitor Reddit posts for specific keywords and get email notifications for matching posts
• Emails sent using ActionMailer
• Built using Full Stack Ruby on Rails
• Styled using Tailwind and CSS
• Built with the intention of grabbing free tickets that people post on local subreddit

DiscussionHub

(Live Demo) (Github Repo)

• A website where users can make posts, vote and comment on posts and create communities
• Built using Full Stack Ruby on Rails
• Styled using Bootstrap and CSS
• Authentication and session tracking done using Devise gem
• Designed with the Model View Controllr architecture in mind

React Weather Browser

(Live Demo) (Github Repo)

• A Weather App where users can browser current weather conditions around the United States
• Built using React
• Styled using Tailwind and CSS
• Utilized Google Autocomplete API to suggest cities based on user input
• Retrieved weather data from OpenWeatherMap API
• Save favorite cities that persist through browser's Local Storage

👩🏻‍🎓 Work and School Experience

Programmer/Assembly Techn - Panther Industries (2023 - Present)

Full Stack Software Engineering Bootcamp - Flatiron School (2022)

Field Service Technician - Panther Industries (2020 - 2022)

Mechanical Engineering Degree (B.S.) from Washington State University (2018 - 2020)

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