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<h1><span class=no-break">John Shaver</span> <span class="no-break">Web Developer</span></h1>
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<section class="section about">
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<h2>About Me</h2>
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<p class="attention">I'm a full-stack engineer with experience building
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and deploying web based applications from the ground up as well as
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debugging and maintaining legacy applications. I am looking for a remote
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position building web based software with a team that embraces remote
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work.</p>
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<p>I have been working with websites and code since I was a kid and then
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worked 7 years in technical support where I gained a solid understanding
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of the web and how it works under the hood. I have spent the last 8 years
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designing, building, deploying and maintaining javascript and typescript
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applications. I've worked with PHP, NodeJS, React, and Serverless.js. I
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enjoy learning better ways to do things, solving difficult problems and
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building software that helps people. I live in Moscow Idaho and my
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hobbies include Devops, listening to podcasts, playing ukulele and,
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especially, spending time with my wife and 4 kids.</p>
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<section class="section projects">
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<h2>Recent Software Projects</h2>
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<h3><a href="https://www.economicmodeling.com/skillabi/">Skillabi</a></h3>
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<img class="main-image" src="images/thumbnails/th_skillabi-1-login.png"/>
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<img class="main-image" src="images/thumbnails/th_skillabi-2.gif"/>
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<img class="main-image" src="images/thumbnails/th_skillabi-3.webp"/>
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<img class="main-image" src="images/thumbnails/th_curricular-skills-api.png"/>
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<h4>Project Goals</h4>
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<p>Skillabi is a tool to help Higher Education institutionsand to
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find skills that are in-demand in the market place so they can
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adjust they're curriculum to teach those skills. Skills are parsed
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from course data and then compared with skills job postings data
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for relevant occupations.</p>
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<h4>My Contributions</h4>
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<p>I worked on a 2-3 man team to build a prototype using netlify. We then
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itterated on it in 3 phases. The prototype was successful enough
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that customers requested to pay to use it (although it chock full
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of technical debt on the inside.) When it came time to build a
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production version, I took over as the technical lead on the
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project. This included designing a new version of the backend APIs
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and leading the reimplementation the frontend.</p>
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<p>The new APIs for storing curricular data and user profiles
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needed to be secure, easy to use, well tested, well documented,
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scalable and reliable. We ensured that security was implemeted in
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the back end first. We used cognito tokens and JWT claims to scope
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user access at the API level on a per user basis. We adopted a
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search query language for searching a curricular data that ensured
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the API could be easily expanded and would be consistant across
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endpoints. We implemented the API on AWS serverless lambdas for
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scalability and reliability and used typescript on serverless.js
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for ease of development.</p>
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<p>The new frontend was developed with react, written in typescript
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and served via cloudfront and s3 for scalabilty, reliability and
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simplicity. I developed the solutions to the most complicated
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problems, including realtime highlighting of skills within a text
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area as users type (The parsing of the skills was handled by an
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external API), and identifying boilerplate text accross many
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courses in a curriculum for parsing. </p>
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<h4>Technologies Used</h4>
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<p>Typescript, Terraform, Gitlab CI, Fugue, OpenId/OAuth, React, Serverless.js, react-query, JWT, KONG</p>
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<h3>Skillsmatch</h3>
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<div class="project-image">
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<img class="main-image" src="images/thumbnails/th_skills-match-img-1.webp"/>
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<img class="main-image" src="images/thumbnails/th_skills-match-2.png"/>
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<img class="main-image" src="images/thumbnails/th_skills-match-img-3.webp"/>
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</div>
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<div class="project-info">
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<h4>Project Goals</h4>
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<p>Skillsmtch is an web based app that schools can provide to their
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students and potential student who are coming back to school after
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some time in the workplace. Skillsmatch helps these adult learners
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catalogue the skills they already have so they can see what skills
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they could then learn to make help with either making themselves
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more marketable or shifting careers. It then helps them identify
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courses or degrees that could help them to learn and demonstrate
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those skills to potential employers.</p>
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<h4>My Contributions</h4>
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<p>I worked with my team as a newly hired developer at the company
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to quickly rebuild the already developed prototype. We build out
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out necessary APIs using serverless.js/Mongodb and frontend in
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Javascript with React/Redux. I wrote code for, reviewed and QA'd
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tickets. I particularly enjoyed teaching new developers and interns
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as they were hired, implementing API tests on our new APIs and
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building out dev ops systems to automatically deploy to AWS.</p>
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<h4>Technologies Used</h4>
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<p>React, Cypress, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Serverless.js, Redux, Docker, Codeship CI</p>
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<h3>Dash Drop</h3>
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<div class="project-image">
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<img class="main-image" src="images/thumbnails/th_dashdrop-1.png"/>
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<img class="main-image" src="images/thumbnails/th_dashdrop-2.png"/>
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<img class="main-image" src="images/thumbnails/th_dashdrop-3.png"/>
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</div>
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<div class="project-info">
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<h4>Project Goals</h4>
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<p>DashDrop is a service to allow dash enthusiasts to automatically
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generate and fund promotional wallets to distribute at
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conferences and events for the purpose of promoting the dash
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currency. The project owners had a new design commisioned for
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the app and needed it implemented quickly.</p>
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<h4>My Contributions</h4>
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<p>The app was already built but they needed someone with strong
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CSS experience to implement the new design. I implmented the new
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design using CSS styles and made some small changes in the
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Javascript, where needed, to change the structure of the
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interface.</p>
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<h4>Technologies Used</h4>
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<p>CSS and some JQuery</p>
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<h3>NewVistas Website Platform</h3>
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<h4>Project Goals</h4>
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<p>Newvistas needed a replacement platform for
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public-facing web content, encouraging communication
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between users, managing deliverables from business
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managers and allowing business owners and authorized
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contributors to update content relevant to their role.
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The platform needed to be easily deployable on multiple
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domains and allow the maintaining developers to easily
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customize styling differently between them.</p>
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<h4>My Contributions</h4>
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<p>I was the only developer on the project. I built
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both the REST api and the frontend SPA. The REST api
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was kept separate so that the project could actually
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run separate seamlessly integrated SPAs for each role
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it was trying to fill.
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</p>
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<p>I designed the dev environment to be quickly and
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easily rebuilt and deployed since I would be handing it
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off to other devs to maintain. The build process is
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designed to ensure optimized page loads and help with
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cross-browser compatibility,while allowing for the
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latest libraries and language improvements to be used.
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Deploying is fast and easy as well as easily
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reversible, leveraging AWS Elastic Beanstalk, EC2 and
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S3.</p>
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<h4>Technologies Used</h4>
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<p>The backend was a rest API built with Node.js and
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Express.js. The front end is an isomorphically
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rendered SPA built wth React/Redux. The front end is
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compiled from ES2016 to ES5 using babel and webpack.
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Isomorphic rendering provides fast load times and
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ensures search engines can index the public content.
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Users authenticate with their AzureAD user via OpenID
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Connect. </p>
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<p>Express was used to build out the REST endpoints for
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the API mySQL is used via Sequelize.js ORM. Secured
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endpoint authorize users based on their user roles and
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ownership/roles assigned to different pages/groupings
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taking into account assigned roles of parent groupings.
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</p>
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<p>The development environment is run in vagrant with
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virtual box and babel and weback were used to compile
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and bundle the front end code. The app runs on
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ephemeral ec2 instances and deployed to AWS Elastic
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Beanstalk to allow for scalability.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<h3>Payzoom Econosystem Platform</h3>
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<div class="project">
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<div class="project-image">
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<img alt="The Payzoom Logo" src="images/thumbnails/th_PayZoom_logo.png"/>
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<img class="main-image" alt="Payzoom Software Demo" src="images/thumbnails/th_payzoom.png"/>
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<div class="project-info">
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<h4>Project Goal</h4>
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<p>Payzoom is a SaaS that allows a community of small
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businesses and funding entities to work together to
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work for each other and balance all the payments at the
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end of the week including paying employees,
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contractors, services fees, and expenses. Participants
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need to be able to do work for any company on any
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project and bill them accordingly as easily as if they
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were working for their own company.</p>
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<h4>My Contributions</h4>
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<p>I wrote the initial payroll integration with
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ZenPayroll to gather weekly totals and pass the
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information to ZenPayroll as well as the code to send
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and reconcile expense data and documentation to
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QuickBooksOnline. Implemented some of the user
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interface views including allocating overtime and
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attaching files to reports/allocations and the
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associated backend.</p>
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<p>While working on the project I also improved the dev
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environment from one that required 2 days for a
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developer to build a permanent virtualbox image to an
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ephemeral environment in Vagrant that could be thrown
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away and recreated in less than 20 minutes.</p>
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<h4>Technologies Used</h4>
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<p>Vagrant Payzoom was built with NodeJS and MySQL on
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the backend and a custom built javascript frontend.
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Communication between server and web was done via
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websockets and a JSON command/sub/pub api that routed
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particular requests/subscriptions to differnt modules
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running on the backend. Payroll was processed via Gusto
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and invoicing informaiton/documentation was passed to
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QuickBooksOnline for paying invoices and tracking
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expenses.</p>
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<h3>Novatek Native Wrapper App</h3>
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<div class="project-image">
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<img class="main-image" alt="Workaids App Icon" src="images/thumbnails/th_icon_work_aids.png" />
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<img alt="Workaids Login Screen" src="images/thumbnails/th_workaids_login2.png" />
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<div class="project-info">
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<h4>Project Goals</h4>
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<p>The Client had an SPA optimized for mobile, but
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wanted it to operate more like an app and have access
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to the phone’s camera, bluetooth, geofencing, etc.
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Since phonegapp was still immature, they wanted an app
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built to wrap the current web interface and allow
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reusing the existing web based code as much as
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possible.</p>
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<h4>My Contributions</h4>
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<p>Initially I helped write many of the api calls for
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the js library the web app used to communicate through
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the webFrame to the native code. Later I helped out
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with ad-hoc deploying the app and did some basic
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maintenance and improvements on the native Objective-C
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codebase. This included the PHP backend and Objective-C
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code necessary to facilitate iOS push
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notifications.</p>
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<h4>Technologies Used</h4>
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<p>This was before phonegapp/cordova was very far along, so
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they decided to build a custom wrapper app that wrapped
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the webview and exposed the phone APIs to the website
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via messages sent betwewn javascript and the Objective
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C code. A javascript library was built that provided
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an event based API to easier access the phone
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functions. Grunt was used bundle the javascript
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library. Some work was done in PHP to provide support
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for the App to authenticate and to send off push
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notifications.</p>
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