JOHN-MICHAEL RILEY

      (828) 335-1228          johnmichael.w.riley@gmail.com         GITHUB     LINKEDIN

SKILLS             Javascript, React, Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, Express.js, Sequelize, MongoDB, GraphQL, HTML, CSS, git

EXPERIENCE        

Lead Module Instructor

App Academy                                                                                July 2019 - Current

• Worked with the instructional team to provide an immersive learning experience at the country’s top-rated coding bootcamp
• Prepared and led daily lectures on course material, while managing a team of technical assistants.
• Focused on getting students to a point of deep understanding of the material, and provided any extra support they might need throughout the often rigorous and stressful curriculum.
• Contributed to the ever-evolving curriculum, constantly analyzing and updating material in order to provide students with best experience possible

PROJECTS        

CloudSound   (Rails, React, Redux)                                                                                live | github 

Single page social music application, meant to be a near pixel perfect reproduction of SoundCloud         

• Incorporated AWS S3 for image and audio uploading, which optimized upload times and increased scalability
• Leveraged Redux state management to create an audio playback bar that persisted throughout the app, creating a seamless user experience
• Utilized the reusability of React Components to create a modal that is responsible for a number of CRUD operations, resulting in cleaner and more flexible code

GameHub  (Mongo, Express, React, Node, GraphQL)                                                                 live | github 

Social video game database         

• Optimized data fetching using GraphQL, allowing  for precise querying of only the necessary information
• Implemented a trending games feature by creating a custom Mongoose method to query for games based on the number of positive reviews received over the past week.
• Utilized the NewsAPI and YouTube Data API to provide relevant content to users throughout the site

Wavy Synthesizer   (JavaScript)                                                                                live | github 

Three oscillator synth built with the Web Audio API         

• Used a Web Audio API context to create three separate oscillators on each keypress with individual gain control
• Built an amp envelope class to control the volume over time settings for each group of oscillators that are created
• Leveraged analyser node methods and HTML canvas elements to build a real-time frequency graph and oscilloscope

EDUCATION

Full Stack Software Engineering - App Academy (Spring 2019 - Summer 2019)

        Immersive full stack web development program

        Focus on Rails, JavaScript, React, SQL, MongoDB, algorithms, pair-programming