Experience

• The Portal - I am creating a task management system similar to Trello, using HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Ajax for the frontend and Node.js, Postgres, and Express for the backend. I also test the frontend using TestCafe and the backend using Mocha and Chai.

• Schoolr - I worked on the front-end for Schoolr, which is a startup tutoring application. We used trello to follow the agile methodology.

• Girls Inc. - I taught middle school and high school girls how to program NAO robots using Choreographe. I also taught high school girls block coding using Made w/ Code, Thunkable, Code.org.

Who Am I?

• My name is Brenda La. I am a 4th year Computer Science major at the University of California, Irvine.

• I am currently seeking for a full-time software developer position or web developer position.

• I created this portfolio from scratch. Read through the journey of how I created this portfolio.

Interests

• I am interested in software development because I want to work with other professionals to write programs and create software that will be useful to people. Writing programs using different programming languages and constantly learning new programming languages has always been interesting.

• I also like front-end development because when creating an application, I do not only want it to work, but I also want to make sure people are able to enjoy the application through their experience and interface.

• Besides programming, I enjoy swimming and playing basketball. I used to be on the swim team and basektball team back in high school.

Languages/Databases

Tools/Frameworks

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Collective Conscience

I worked with 5 other women to create an application called Collcetive Conscience to raise awareness to sexual harrassment. We had weekly sprints and as an engineer of the group, I worked on both the frontend and the backend to create the crowdsourced based application.

• HTML
• CSS
• Ionic
• Firebase
• Google Maps API

SendGrid Bloomfilter

I collaborated with 4 others to build a system that uses an implemented bloom filter for email suppression for SendGrid, an email marketing company. We had weekly sprints and followed the agile methodology. The implemented bloom filter is in Go and we programmed in Go and used MySQL as the database. We made the bloom filter distributed and we have a sharded database for large amounts of data.

• Go
• MySQL

Fabflix

I worked with 2 others to create an eCommerce website for movies and a basic Android application. Users who visit the website are able to search and shop for movies. They are also able to search by the title of the movie or by a specific genre. There are also information about the movie and information about the stars who starred in the movie. We developed locally and then deployed it onto AWS.

• Java
• HTML
• CSS
• Tomcat
• MySQL
• Amazon Web Services
• Android Studio
• Java Server Pages
• Java Database Connectivity Program

Search Engine

I created a search engine for the ICS domain with 1 other. The end project consists of an interface that includes a text box for users to enter queries and it returns a list of relevant results, showing the URL and a snippet of what is on the site. We worked with Elasticsearch to build an index, given the websites, and we retrieved documents according to relevance score using RESTful APIs and JSON. Then we used Flask to develop the interface of the search engine.

• Python
• Flask
• ElasticSearch