Work

Experience · Education · Projects

Experience

ACLU of Washington

2018 – 2019

Public Relations

Migrated local volunteer system to an online database, doubling participation; created documentation for onboarding staff. Produced the annual department report by analyzing communications activity and determining where to divert energy and funds for the following year.

City of Seattle

2018 – 2019

Community Ambassador

Provided translation services in Amharic. Audited programs receiving grant funding. Engaged underrepresented communities on public services available to them.

Education

Hack Reactor

December 2019

Software Engineering

University of Washington

June 2017

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science

Dean's List — Winter 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2017

Seattle Central College

June 2015

Associate of Arts

Dean's List — Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Winter 2015, Spring 2015 · President & Founder, Art & Culture Club

Projects

Twitook

Web Application

Social network with post, comment, and home feed features. Flux architecture with React on the front end; JWT authentication and MongoDB on the back end.

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Hungry

iOS Mobile App

Geolocation-based restaurant recommender filtering by proximity, hours, and rating. Yelp GraphQL API + Google Maps. Built with React Native, Node.js, and MongoDB.

GitHub ↗

Skills

LanguagesJavaScript, CSS, HTML, Java, SQL
FrameworksReact, Node.js, Express, Next.js, GatsbyJS, React Native, Bootstrap, Styled Components
DatabasesPostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra
ToolsGit, AWS, Docker, Jest, Postman, Loader.io, Nginx, Webpack