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Hey, I'm August. I love creating things.
Chord Sketcher
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A small app for generating chord progressions.
Cell_Auto_Shop
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Small web based app for exploring cellular automata.
Textflow
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Structered writing process and text editor app
Graph-Deluxe
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Graph Generator for quickly creating graphs with various topographies and other attributes
Hard Skills:
My technical skills are rooted in a strong creative drive and an appreciation for technical design.
Front-End Development
Front-End development is currently my peak area of confidence. It is often complex yet needs to work in the wilds of the internet, so I bring all my creativity and determination to the table.
Back-End Development
Most of my Back-End experience has been developing Sinatra, Rails, Express.js, and Serverless Framework APIs. I'm very passionate about expanding my experience in this area of development.
Solutions Architecture
I am currently studying to aquire my Solutions Architect Associates certification from AWS. I was previously responsible for deploying services to the cloud and have since found an avid interest in cloud solutions.
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Technical Design:
InnovationConventionMaintainabilityComplexitySecuritySpeed
Soft Skills:
I actively develop my ability to communicate and collaborate. I believe that the foundation of good software begins with good teamwork.
Agile Process
Complexity and Agile go hand in hand. Therefore, Agile is vital to building inspiring software and maintaining killer team dynamics.
Learning Speed
I view learing as a way of life and many of my skills are self-taught. I pride myself on the ability to adapt quickly to new environments and rapidly aquire new skills.
Teamwork
Teamwork and collaboration are incredibly rewarding both personally and professionally. I believe in open communication, supporting your teamates' strengths, and depending on others responsibly.
Problem Solving
Problem solving is a common process, but the strategies are varied and endlessly diverse. I think problem solving is achieved by both analysis and intuition and plays a huge part in the creative process.
Environment Balance
TrustDisciplineTeam GrowthIndividual GrowthProcessCommon Sense
Experience:
2.5+ years
"August was a critical member of our Cloud Native team at Monsoon, and continually generated value at every stage of our design and development process - from ideation all the way to implementation. He effectively lead the frontend engineering aspect of the project and was directly responsible for our choice of frontend technologies as well as delivering many features. I was always very impressed with August’s ability to quickly prototype a design or approach, share it with the team to gather feedback, and then immediately execute with a rock solid implementation. August has a very methodical and meticulous approach to his craft, and at the same time is able to remain surprising adaptive, agile and efficient. Any organization would greatly benefit from August’s design and engineering acumen and I look forward to seeing what he will accomplish in the future!"
CTO & Director of Data Engineering at Monsoon Inc.
Micheal Andrews
October 2019 - Present
Bachelors in Software Engineering
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Arizona State University
A continuing pursuit of my ongoing personal and proffessional development in technology.
Janaury 2018 - September 2019
Transfer Associates of Science
@
Portland Community College
A continuing pursuit of my ongoing personal and proffessional development in technology.
March 2016 - November 2018
Front-End Engineer
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Monsoon, Inc.
Designed and developed the Front-End solutions for all company cloud native products. Working directly with the product development team, I took the functional and design requirements, broke them into technical specifications, then took responsibility for implementation and deployment.
November 2016 - April 2017
Front-End Engineer
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Reflect Technologies
Working alongside a small team of talented engineers, I contributed to the company's data visualization product. I moved quickly from my initial responsibility of managing the company marketing website to resolving issues reported by key clients in the heart of the codebase and implementing entire features in the client facing UI.
June 2018 - Present
Organizer
@
Donuts.js
Contributed to administrative work and helped host events.
June 2016 - October 2016
Ruby Developer Track
@
Epicodus
Used a vareity of full stack technologies in team based software development exercises.