Laura Maddaluno

I am a junior software developer, resilient, reflective and passionate about coding. During last year, I taught myself how to code, using resources like Udemy, freeCodeCamp, codebar and Codecademy. I was able to build my first projects in HTML, CSS, and JS in a short amount of time, which gave me the opportunity to receive a scholarship to Makers Academy, where I learned about the power of a growth mindset and the joy of working in a dev team.

I enjoy undertaking new challenges both in coding and my life’s journey. I attain complete satisfaction upon achieving beneficial results and solutions, which in turn encourages me to continuously improve. As a career changer, I am thrilled by the idea of improving people's lives through technology.

Projects

Name	Description	Tech/tools
Sneaker Seeker	A web app for sneakerheads, where they can find all the releases shoes. To visit the page just click here	React, Express, JavaScript, Bootstrap, CSS
My portfolio web page	A web page to apply what I have learned during my self-taught study. To visit the page just click here	HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Skills

Self-motivation, Resilient and Determined

As a singer, I've competed in a few contests, and although they didn't all go as wished, in order to improve myself I always asked for feedback. I spent a lot of time working on my weak points, learning new strategies and listening to advice, which helped me to win many competitions and collaborate with a variety of musicians. My self-motivation is based on my perseverance in achieving my goals. This skills helped me to balance looking after my 3 years old child, full-time, and building my first projects that result in me winning a Makers scholarship. I'm currently keeping track of both my unmet and accomplished tasks because it motivates me to make daily improvements.

Communication, Performing under pressure, Teamwork

During my singing career I had the opportunity to plan concerts and events where the performances ware enjoyed by the audience and ware fulfilling for the musicians. Across Makers I could enhance this skills trough meditation and thanks to workshops on how give and receive feedback and how create bounderies I was able to successfull guide my team on emotional check in and retro and in several occasions I received compliments from my peer wich wrote: "Thanks for all your work this week, your spirit really kept me going at the end". "Thank you for leading today with your positive vibes...Seeing how much you're learning is inspiring". "I really enjoyed working with you and thank you for your effort and input with the project". "You do so well today, taking us all over the finish line, together".

Attention to detail, Logical thinking

These skills, combined with my calm, confident and reassuring personality, have meant that I have helped my students with different learning styles to achieve excellent results. My perseverance and attention to detail helped my pupils to improve on their learning styles and the majority of them achieved an A score especially in mathematics. During the bootcamp engenearing projects I always contributed to debug and find solutions to the challenges we faced, bringing concrete results that leaded the team to progress further.

Work Experience

Professional Soprano Freelance (Jan. 2006 to date)

Performed as a soloist or as part of chorus in concerts and Operas: Italy, Germany and United Kingdom.

Ensured high-level performance by quickly learning new areas and singing repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary, even performing twice a day during the “Festival della Valle D'Itria”.
Managed and led singers, musicians and event managers to successfully produce a yearly event with an audience’s increase of 50% each year.

Neapolitan Language Coach The Royal College of Music (May – June 2014)

Lead coach of the Don Pomponio role from Rossini's opera La Gazzetta at The Royal College of Music in London.

Successfully instilled in the singers to understand, pronounce and interpret the arias and recitatives, through individual classes and collaboration during rehearsals.
Proficient at explaining and ensuring the singers were able to resonate with the meaning of the songs.
Adept at accommodating individual singers’ ability. Exceptionally patient and able to adapt my teaching skills to ensure that all singers perfected their interpretation and pronunciation of the recitatives and areas.

Learning Support Tutor Freelance (Sept. 2007 - July 2012)

Supported and improved the outcomes of over 10 pupils aged 6 to 17 years with various learning disabilities such as poor attention span, aggressive behaviour, lack of interest and motivation for studying, lack of self-confidence.

Effectively applied different techniques to bring about engagement, improved self-confidence and ability to achieve tasks on their own.
All pupils improved their academic abilities, from being unable to achieve a pass score to scoring a minimum of C scores with the majority achieving A scores especially in mathematics.
Successfully assisting one of my pupils to overcome her stutter and lack of self-confidence through skills learnt as a trained singer.

Education

Makers Academy (July 2021 to November 2021)

Intensive Full Stack Software Engineering Bootcamp

Pair programming and team engineering projects, including training in meditation, empathy and exchange feedback
Object Oriented Principles, Test Driven Development, Model View Controller, Domain Driven Development
Methodologies: Agile/Extreme Programming
Languages: Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL
Frameworks: React, Rails, Express
Testing frameworks: RSpec, Capybara, Jasmine, Jest

Accademia del Belcanto “Rodolfo Celletti”, Martina Franca, IT (March - Nov 2012)

High-level performance singing repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary

“Conservatorio D. Cimarosa”, AV, IT (Nov 2003 - March 2007)

M.A. in Singing, (Outstanding)

“ Liceo Classico Pitagora”, Pozzuoli, IT (Sept 1996 - July 2001)

GCSE Advanced Level

Other qualifications

Responsive Web Design, freeCodeCamp, online-course, May 2021
Learn Ruby, codecademy, online-course, April 2021
Certificate English at the CEFR B2 level, Rose of YorkLanguage School, London Apr. 2013
Theoretical Seminar Experiential Introduction to Music Therapy, Città dell'Essere, Naples Mar. 2008
Theories and techniques of interpersonal communication, GI Group, Naples Feb. 2008

Code Reviews

During Makers I had the opportunity to be observed, for one hour, by a technical expert from CoGrammar on how to convert an hypotetical product owner non-technical requirements into a working, tested, well-written application.

Here the feedback

I use an agile process

"You have clarified the main requirements well with the client and understood the behaviour of the program quite well. You also took note of the requirements as the client provided them.You have created an input-output table with the examples that I have shared with you which is really great."

Can model

"Your method names adhered to the Ruby naming convention of snake_case and were also actionable names that describe what the methods do in a way that reflects the client’s domain. The algorithm that you completed made logical sense and was able to adhere to the requirements as were provided by the client."

Can TDD

"Your test progression made logical sense and you used it in order to make incremental transformations to the code so that with each specific test, the solution becomes more general."

Can program fluently

"You are very fluent with Ruby and RSpec syntax and language constructs. You are also aware of built-in methods in Ruby and how to use them correctly. Your algorithm was definitely on the right path and was a logical solution to the problem."

Can write code that is easy to change

"I was pleased to see that you had your test suite decoupled from the implementation. This was done by testing the expected inputs and outputs of the system. This promotes flexibility in your code, and so any changes made to the structure of the code will not warrant a change in tests. You have used descriptive variable and method names which assisted in making your code easy to understand and therefore easier to make changes to."

Can debug

"You were reading the backtrace carefully and were familiar with common errors, this helped you to formulate a good hypothesis as to why errors were occurring and made the necessary changes."

Methodological approach to problem solving

"You adhered to the red-green-refactor cycle and maintained a good behaviour-first approach. You also prioritised the core and simpler cases over the edge cases and more complex scenarios, allowing you to provide the client with immediate value. Your tests also progressed logically, giving your development cycle a sensible direction."

Justify the way I work

"You were very vocal about your process and the decisions that you have made. You also made sound justifications for why you were making those decisions."

Hobbies

I am an active member of codebar as student and as volunteer and every Wednesday I enjoy TDD with Ladies of code.
Use my creativity and my hands to bring projects to life, for example I made 150 origamy wedding party invitation and... I was the bride...
I love to bake and I am very proud of my bread an pizza, but here you can see some of my cakes.

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