Summary
Software Engineer with experience building modern web sites and apps. Takes projects from concepts to fully functional programmed navigations, layouts, and UX/UI using React.js, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Continuously learning and building with the latest technologies to grow into an expert fullstack developer.
Projects
Below are several of my favorite works. Click links for live demos. Go to patrickolvera.com for more details and source code.
Neighborhood Map
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Built using the React JavaScript framework, this app
implements the Google Maps, and FourSquare APIs to get locations and information about some of my favorite places in Melbourne, Australia.
Lisa's Doggy Care
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This is a website I was commissioned to create for a local business. It's mobile responsive, performant, accessible, and uses current best practices.
My Reads
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A React.js single page web app for book tracking. It allows you to search for titles and add them to various lists/book shelves.
Restaurant
Reviews App
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A website I redesigned to be responsive, accessible, and use service workers for offline functionality.
Feed
Reader Tester
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A series of test suites I wrote using Jasmine.js for a feed reader.
Technical Skills
- React.js
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- Git/GitHub
- Accessibility
- NPM
- JSON
- JQuery
- REST
- AJAX
- Webpack
- Gulp
- Grunt
- Jasmine.js
- Node.js
- Object Oriented Programming
- Functional Programming
- Modular Design Patterns
Experience
- Communicated with client to design and develop responsive web site to meet business goals.
- Launched visually appealing user-friendly web interface with interactive features.
- Optimized performance, and accessibility using current best practices.
Developed in partnership with Google, AT&T, and Github, this program provided me with a deep dive into the modern world of front end web development.
