About me

Image of Ben Slinde, he is very handsome

I am a full stack software engineer with an interest in data science. With almost two decades of experience interpreting data from manufacturing operations using statistical tools, I am very excited to change my field and focus on meta-data and relationships in data sets.


Skills I have been using recently

HTML&CSS, Javascript, Node.js, Jquery, Agile Methodology

Projects

Book Club Collective

Book Club Collective is a full stack application, deployed on heroku, that allows readers to share their reading experiences. After making a profile, users can write reviews for books, read reviews from other users and make or join a book club. To find books, users can search a catalog supplied by an API fetch to Google Books API.

Project Role and skills used

Full Stack Role: Google API fetch, Handlebars, Javascript, star rating.js

Hiking Hub

Hiking Hub allows you to enter a city of your choice, and then returns a listing of hiking trails within 15 miles. You are then able to select a trail and you will be provided with a selection of reddit posts regarding the chosen trail. Hiking Hub will also save your recent searches allowing for a quick search of your favorite locations.

Skills demonstrated:

Google Places API, Reddit API, Tailwind CSS, Materialize CSS, Local Storage

Weather Forecast

This app allows to to check the current weather conditions of a city of your input. It also provides a five day forecast and stores your searches for quick searches in the future.

Skills demonstrated:

Open Weather API, HTML&CSS, Local Storage

Tech Theory

Tech Theory is a blog that allows users, after creating a profile, to post their thoughts and also allows users the ability to leave comments for thoughts posted by others.

Skills demonstrated:

MVC Paradigm, Handlebars, Sequelize, Express, Express-Session

Password Generator

The password generator app will generate a random password for the user depending on user input criteria. The user will select up to four character sets to include in the password and then be allowed to input a length from 8 to 128 characters.

Skills demonstrated:

HTML&CSS, Javascript