Nicky Chen

Intro

Hi, I'm a full stack developer. I am a software engineer at Pariveda Solutions in Dallas. I've worked on a variety of projects, including working at Nexient where I worked on the Levi Strauss & Co. team and helped developed new features for headless architecture. While there, I was part of the team to roll out Levi's to 33 Eastern European countries in October 2019. I graduated from University of Calfiornia, Berkeley in 2014 and have a background in finance from working for Bay Equity as a mortgage loan processor.

On the side, I love learning new things related to code, and have been learning Java & Spring recently. I have also been building a recipe book app to store and manage my recipes for cooking. I also love to play & watch basketball, play video games, and travel.

Work

Pariveda Solutions (Feb 2020 to current)

Nexient (Jan 2019 to Feb 2020)

At Nexient, I've been working on the Levi Strauss & Co. team and have been contributing daily to rolling out Levi's to Eastern Europe.

Bay Equity (Apr 2015 to Apr 2018)

At Bay Equity, I reviewed initial loan approval and worked with borrowers to gather documentation and kept up with the loan process from application to funding.

Projects

HomeMade: Recipe Book

HomeMade ia a full stack app for browsing recipes and saving them to a user created profile. Users can browse a database of recipes provided with Spoonacular API, save favorite ones for later use, and can create & edit own recipes or grab recipes from other recipe sites as well.

React Hooks & Context API were used to handle state and props and bypassed the need for class components. PostgreSQL was used to CRUD recipe data & authentication was done with JWTs and Firebase to provide 2 methods of logging in.

Conway's Game of Life

Conway's Game of Life ia a game which says:

This app was built to simulate each iteration of cells as they go through the simulation. CSS elements were used to build the board and cells.

Contact

Elements

i = 0;

while (!deck.isInOrder()) {
    print 'Iteration ' + i;
    deck.shuffle();
    i++;
}

print 'It took ' + i + ' iterations to sort the deck.';