Education

A new graduate from Kenzie Academy via Southern New Hampshire University. Kenzie Academy’s Backend Software Engineering program was co-developed with Amazon Technical Academy to prepare learners to become an Amazon Software Engineer.

This full-time intensive program is 12-months long with the intent to help learners fully grasp materials and concepts than that of a traditional bootcamp. Kenzie Academy is institutionally and regionally accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE).

Before I joined Kenzie Academy in April 2022, I was self teaching myself through online courses on Udemy. This was a Full Stack Web Development course by Colt Steele where I learned HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, and Javascript.

From there on out, I have been programming with Java. My journey into becoming a developer started at my current company, 6sense. As a recruiting coordinator, I have been working alongside recruiters and hiring managers, hiring engineers throughout my career. This naturally got me curious of the Software Engineering domain. That is when I decided to learn something new.

I have always been passionate about technology and its impact in our modern society with its evolving capabilities. But I never knew where to start. I believe I was meant to become a recruiting coordinator to cross paths with engineers to find my fulfilling career, working with technology.

My newly gained skills were recognized at my current job. I was able to help find and recruit new engineering interns! My leaders were so happy and impressed by how fast I was able to recognize the skills we need to hire.

I am extremely excited for what my future holds. I am eager to join a team and help maximize the impact of the technology that is being created with the skills at my disposal. I am happy to share my certificate with you as it is a major accomplishment I am proud of. 🙂

Tech/Relevant Skills Overview

Programming Languages: Java, SQL, Bash, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Frameworks and Libraries: Spring Boot, JUnit, Mockito, Dagger, Google Guava, Gson, Bootstrap

Methodologies: Algorithmic Complexity (Big-O), Cache-based Optimization, Multi-Threading, RESTful APIs, Scrum, Debugging

Misc. Technologies & Systems: Various NoSQL DBs (Redis, AWS DynamoDB), AWS Lambda, Docker, Version Control, Branching, PRs (Git/GitHub)

Career Interests

Backend Software Engineer

Java Developer

Associate Software Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Goals

  • Become a professional Software Engineer

  • Develop additional projects that utilize caching, REST APIs, and databases

  • Practice coding exercises through HackerRank, LeetCode, etc.

  • Learn new relational and non-relational databases