Full Stack Web Developer, Made in New York

About

Hi! I'm Randall Reed, Jr., a web developer living and working in Richmond, Virginia. I am actively looking for my next role, while occasionally taking on freelance work.

Technologies

HTML, CSS, Ruby, Rails, Rspec, Rake, Javascript, React, Gulp, JSON, Elasticsearch, AWS S3, AWS Cloudfront, Git, Github, Heroku, Circle CI, Codeship CI, Wordpress, PHP

Languages

English (native fluency)

French (intermediate proficiency)

Spanish (elementary proficiency)

Freelance Projects

Screenslate

Screenslate is a site devoted to finding the best movie screenings in New York City. For the site redesign funded by a Kickstarter campaign, I developed the backend CMS and API. I also managed the deployed application on Heroku and used add-ons such as New Relic, Papertrail, and Scout to tune performance and detect issues.

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Rspec, Refinery CMS, Javascript, CSS, ERB, AWS S3, Codeship CI, Heroku, Github

TDEE Calculator

Javascript calculator for Total Daily Energy Expenditure, built for People's Athletic Club.

Technologies: Next.js, Vercel

Open Source Projects

time_value

time_value is a Ruby gem to perform time value of money calculations. It has methods for present value (PV), future value (FV), interest (I), number of periods (n), and payment (pmt).

Technologies: Ruby, Rspec, Financial Computation, Circle CI, Github

roth_ira

roth_ira is a Ruby gem to calculate Roth IRA contribution limits, which vary based on income, age, and tax filing status.

Technologies: Ruby, RSpec, Circle CI, GitHub

git_swap

git_swap is a command line utility to switch between multiple GitHub profiles (e.g. a work and personal account).

Technologies: Ruby, RSpec, Circle CI, GitHub, Git, bash, ssh-add

Personal Projects

randallreedjr.com

This site! As an exercise in minimalism, I created the site from scratch in a text editor. As new features were added, the site grew in complexity, and now uses Gulp to pre-compile the Sass to CSS and Rake to deploy using the aws cli tool. It is hosted on AWS in an S3 bucket.

Technologies: HTML, Handlebars, CSS, Sass, Gulp, Rake, AWS S3, AWS Cloudfront, Github

Get to 24

Get to 24 is a Sinatra application allowing the user to play the 24 Game, a math card game.

Technologies: Ruby, Sinatra, Bootstrap, CSS, ERB, Heroku, Github

Project Euler problems

In my free time, I solve problems on Project Euler, a site hosting mathematical and algorithmic challenges.

Contact

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