So you wanna
learn to code, eh?
@brandonb927
About Me
https://brandonb.io
Product Developer @ Sendwithus
Work
- In-house IT office for 100+ REALTOR®s on VI
- Web development + maintenance for real estate websites in PHP with MySQL
- Built custom Wordpress build, applied to multiple sites
- Networking + server management
- Applied Windows server + desktop OS knowledge
- Linux server management
- Implemented wireless network auth system
- Real estate website development in custom PHP framework "Caffeine"
- Built and worked on core parts of web apps built in Python
- QuoteRobot.com
- Postach.io
- Trips to San Francisco for multiple events
- Evernote Devcup, took home $20k cheque, gold trophy
- Evernote Accelerator (1 month)
- Product Developer
- working on web app UI/frontend
- dealing directly with customers to build features
- API powered by high-scale, high-throughput systems
- Hosted on Heroku, services powered by AWS
- Infrastructure is a mixture of Python and Go
- Working in mixture of legacy and new code
- Frontend, writing new components in React
- Backend, ripping out core functions and writing "micro-services" for most new code
Transactional Email + Templating API solution
Provide email marketing solutions for large enterprise companies
Community Engagement:
- Open Source Template Gallery
- Open Source API Clients
- Community Events in Victoria
- Battlesnake (v3 coming up!)
- Startup Slam (just completed v3)
Cool Tech
That I Use Daily
Atom Code Editor
- Cross platform
- Hackable
Hyper App
- Cross platform (very soon!)
- Configurable, themable
Insomnia REST Client
- Cross platform
- Manage your API testing, requests, and environments
Built with Javascript!
electron.atom.io
Docker Containers
- Cross platform
- Env/config in code rather than constrained by physical machine