Full Stack Web Developer, Made in New York

About

Hi! I'm Randall Reed, Jr., a web developer living and working in New York. I work as a Senior Consultant for Def Method.

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

CrossFit Waldwick

CrossFit Waldwick is a CrossFit box opened in Waldwick, NJ in May 2016. Leading up to the grand opening, I created a static website in HTML and CSS before launching a fully functional Wordpress site. I also incorporated custom CSS into the Wordpress site, as well as made adjustments to the php code to hide unnecessary elements that couldn't be controlled through the theme's customization.

Technologies: Wordpress, HTML, CSS, PHP

ePancreas iOS App

ePancreas is an app for the iPhone in the pre-release phase. I collaborated with the founder to help design the prototype of the application and communicate the design to the dev shop that built the prototype.

Technologies: Sketch

Open Source Projects

NYC Tech Conferences

NYC Tech Conferences is a listing of tech conferences occurring in New York City.

Technologies: HTML, CSS, Jekyll, YAML, Github

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_switch

git_switch is a Ruby gem 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

git-undo

git-undo is a command line utility, packaged as a ruby gem, to simplify reversing a git command. I presented a talk about this gem at the NYC.rb Ruby Meetup.

Technologies: Git, Ruby, Rubygems, Bash, Github

This Weekend or Next

This Weekend or Next is a Sinatra application to clarify what constitutes 'this weekend' versus 'next weekend.' It calculates the date and time based on your selected timezone via ActiveSupport.

Technologies: Ruby, Sinatra, CSS, 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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