Robyn Spaulding

Full Stack Software Engineer | Former Educator | Mom

Prior to my transition to tech, I worked in education for ten years. I started as a preschool teacher for five years and later worked at a charter high school as a math and English intervention specialist and an after school tutor. And let me tell you, there was never a dull moment in a room full of students, whether you are working with fourteen 2 year olds or a dozen 14-18 year olds. What I love about teaching is seeing students succeed, discovering new ways to teach through research, collaborating with collegues about the best and most engaging ways to present information and compiling and presneting data to demonstrate to students, families and administration the results of their hard work.

After ten years in education, I was lucky enough to spend a year as a stay-at-home Mom. Being a mom is the best, most tiring, worst paid, greatest benefits job I have ever had. When my daughter started preschool, I decided to take on a new challenge and pursue a career in tech. I enrolled at Actualize Coding Bootcamp where I learned coding languages (Ruby and JavaScript), web application frameworks (Ruby on Rails and React) and how to create functional and beautiful websites, both as part of a team and on my own.

I fell in love with the process of learning and creating, debugging and problem solving, challenging myself and collaborating with others who love to learn. I discovered that I can use my bakground in research and data analysis/implementation and apply it to my coding journey. I graduated in November and am now looking for an opportunity where I can learn from a great team/mentor, utalize my skills in web development and collaboration to create functional applications and be a part of a community that values growth and positivity.

Projects

Below you will find a few of my completed and in progress projects.

Click on the image to be taken to the Github Repository

Birgit Spaulding Fine Art

This is the front end for a professional artist website. I created this frontend with client input for style and colors, which can all be customized in the index.css file. The goal for this site is to allow an artist to showcase their work by adding/editing images with the details and prices of each piece, list their past and future events, and allow patrons to contact the artist via email. The site is designed with only a login page rendered, but a signup to add users can be easily implemented by uncommenting the link in the Header.jsx file. This way patrons cannot access the add and edit features. To see the live site and Birgits amazing artwork CLICK HERE

Tech Stack:
  • Deployed on Render
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Cloudinary
  • React.js
  • Axios
  • Bootstrap
  • React-Dom
  • React-Router-Dom
  • HTML
  • CSS

    • Status: Complete

    Click on the image to be taken to the Github Repository

    YogiBear

    YogiBear is a booking sight for Yoga Instructors. A user can create an account and book a session with their favorite Yogi. A user can also see all the sessions they have booked. An Admin user can add or remove a Yoga instructor in the database, edit instructor information and create their own bookings.

    Tech Stack:
  • Ruby on Rails
  • React.js
  • Axios
  • Bootstrap
  • React-Dom
  • React-Router-Dom
  • React-DatePicker
  • Momentjs
  • HTML
  • CSS

    • Status: Complete

    Click on the image to be taken to the Github Repository

    Artist Website

    I am creating a website for an artist so that she can login, upload her work, post links to articles about herself and where people can email her to discuss art, classes, purchasing paintings, etc. via a contact form utalizing the EmailJS service

    Tech Stack:
  • Ruby on Rails
  • React.js
  • Emailjs
  • Axios
  • Bootstrap
  • React-Dom
  • HTML
  • CSS

    • Status: In Progress

    Click on the image to be taken to the Github Repository

    Travel Planning App

    Where To Next? is a travel planning app that allows plan their trips along with the places they want to see while they are on that trip. While looking at all the fun places to visit there is a search bar that accesses a third-party API called SerpApi which scrapes Google results based on your search query and location input. This way users can look up the fun local things to do while they're there without leaving the app!

    Tech Stack:
  • React.js
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Axios
  • React Date Picker
  • Moment.js
  • React Router
  • React Bootstrap
  • HTML
  • CSS

    • Status: Complete

    Click on the image to be taken to the Github Repository

    Construction Website

    I created a website for a general contractor so that his customers can see his past work, the things he makes in his woodshop and contact him through the EmailJS service to request quotes or discuss purchasing products.

    Tech Stack:

  • Ruby on Rails
  • React.js
  • Emailjs
  • Axios
  • React-Dom
  • HTML
  • CSS

    • Status: Complete

    Click on the image to be taken to the Github Repository

    Blog

    I created a simple Blog website that I allows a user to signup and login and create blog posts with a title, text, date and image. Users can update and delete their posts when logged in, otherwise visitors can read the posts in a modal. You can find the GitHub Repo by clicking on the image to the left

    Tech Stack:

  • React.js
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Axios
  • Bootstrap
  • HTML
  • CSS

    • Status: Complete

    Click on the image to be taken to the Github Repository

    Calculator App

    For this project I followed a great turtorial. My calculator is currently housed on my local server (file:///Users/robynspaulding/Actualize/discovery-projects/calculator-project/calc-html.html) but the learning process was interesting. I struggled at times when coding the JavaScript in the HTML file as each change needed multiple points of coding and I was trying to test functionality before doing all the steps (which obviously didn't work) but I learned that in a project with seperate HTML JS and CSS pages when a change is made it can effect each file and I need to be aware of how they interact when testing. Click on the calculator to see the origional tutorial.

    Tech Stack:

  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS

    • Status: Complete

    Work Journal

      In my work journal I write about:

    • Updates on what I am learnings and current projects
    • My inner musings about experimenting with new tech
    • Articles and resources I find interesting
    • Ideas for future projects & research topics