Hi there ✋🏽, Nerando here.

Brief Bio

As a software developer with full-stack training and experience, I have served in a software development and DevOps capacity while assisting a team of nine developers in creating a proprietary mortgage web platform. Our team worked on a new app and used feature development in a modern Expo-based React/React Native SPA front-end with a Node.js back-end using MongoDB as storage. We worked on the integration of other middleware, new user workflows, and adding functionality that could support 5,000 concurrent users in the mortgage space.

As a Quality Assurance / Junior Software Engineer with a local Atlanta firm, I was responsible for creating and reviewing JavaScript-based ad technologies for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim (Emmy Award Winner for 2019). I also served in a full-stack developer capacity, redesigning and rebuilding of in-house software, at Equity Prime Mortgage.

My strengths include problem-solving, creating and modifying codebases, and working with multiple stakeholders to ensure that the work being done is understood and the expected solutions are delivered. Additional skills and experience include simplified documentation, Quality Assurance, and test strategies. Facilitating best practices in the software development life cycle, I am open to supporting my team in whichever way it is needed.

In addition to my professional experience, I have served as a mentor for early-stage software engineers at Thinkful (a Chegg service) and Lighthouse, assisting students as they complete their journey into software development. Since 2018, I have co-organized the local FreeCodeCamp Atlanta chapter. As a team participant of ATLC3 competition in 2018, our team won the civic hacking project earning a prize of $40,000, donating it all to charities focused on disability and tech-education.

My Tech Stack

• Languages: CSS3, JavaScript, Ruby, Python
• Frameworks: Bootstrap, Ruby-on-Rails, React, SemanticUI, SASS, Expo (React Native), Vue ~> Learning
• Practices: Accessibility, Agile Development, CI/CD, Documentation, MVC, Peer Programming, SEO, TDD
• Tools: Asana, Azure DevOps, Cypress, Confluence, git, Jira, Sentry
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Sqlite3, MongoDB
• OS: Linux, macOS, Windows
• Platforms: BitBucket, GitHub, Google APIs, Firebase
• Services: Heroku, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Netlify, Vercel, WordPress (Theme-based development)

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Other Summary

• 🔭 I’m currently getting better at making good technical content among other things.
• I’m currently upgrading skills in JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, the MERN stack, and a few DevOps skills.
• 📝 I currently blog here.
• 🌱 I’m upskilling in Vue, TypeScript and JavaScript ( Does it really end ?).
• 👯 I’m looking to collaborate on projects that reinforce the skillsets above.
• 🤔 I’m looking for help with growth hacking.
• 💬 Ask me about ... community building, learning how-to-learn, my tech stack, and teaching introductory web development skills.
• 📫 How to reach me: ... @nerajno, my DMs are open.
• 😄 Pronouns: ... He/Him.
• ⚡ Fun fact: ...I STILL love Legos and reading education research ( specifically applied science, literacy, and psychology-based educational research).