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i3 Institute
Lead Web Developer
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TypeScript
ExpressJS
NextJS
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Svelte
GitHub
Cloudflare
I've actually been with i3 Institute for a while. My work on their website started when I got fed up with how dated the site looked. Did a large refactor of it to Svelte. Svelte was a great choice for this since it was originally written in mostly plain HTML. A few bash scripts and some manual refactoring later and all the pages were migrated. With that, we were able to remake the site page by page instead of having to rewrite the whole thing at once.
The first and largest page I worked at the time was the donation page. Completely revamped the whole thing. Used Stripe directly and connected it to an ExpressJS backend. Tried integrating PayPal. I now hate PayPal.
Later, after most of the site was migrated I ended taking on the whole project of building the signup and payment page for the Muslim Blueprint Program along with its associated automations. This was i3's first major paid program offering. While I was familiar using Stripe at this point, I quickly found that using it for doing two separate payment schemes was rather difficult. Especially since the monthly scheme was not a subscription but a monthly installment payment. Honestly, my first crack at it was less than stellar. But I reworked the whole payment process later on and worked rock steady ever since.
EnsoConnect
Backend Python Developer (Co-op)
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Python
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First time working in Toronto in office! Had a hybrid arrangement and although waking up so early was quite a pain, I did somewhat enjoy the commute to the office. Took the GO train over and would order a latte online while on the street car so by the time I arrived it was ready.
Work involved solving bugs and developing new features for the Enso Connect app. The app was focused on being an all in one solution for integrating and operating multiple Property Management Services. Think AirBnb, Guestify, Lodgify, and many more. I quickly got a hold of things as this was also when I migrated to NixOS. Made setting up the local development environment a breeze to the point that I was up and ready in 2 days while previous developers took 2 weeks.
Institute for Quantum Computing
Quantum Cybersec Developer (Co-op)
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Java
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VueJS
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A very different co-op than the previous, focused on a demonstration of quantum cryptography backed video conferencing. My work involved writing out a driver to simulate a satelite relay of generated keys. Also rewrote their dashboard using Vue for the hell of it.
This job was where I got introduced to networking fundamentals. Learned the TLS protocol, cryptography, and dabbled into some quantum computing topics.
OpenText
Full Stack Developer (Co-op)
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Java
Spring Boot
React
VueJS
PostgreSQL
BitBucket
Jira
The first BIG company I worked for. Was immediately obvious with the increased security, provided equipment, and the larger teams. Also, had to work in Java 11 and I have been hating on Java for quite a while. Despite that, I think Sprint Boot is a pretty cool framework for having the full batteries included experience. Though it is quite verbose.
The backend wasn't the only thing I was working on. Since I kept up with new features in CSS I was able to provide a rather simple solution to an ongoing issue of not being able to support RTL in OpenText's styling package. One 300+ substitution later (vim substitutions made this so much easier) and OpenText CSS can now support RTL in both layout and prose.
LynchPyn
Frontend React Developer (Co-op)
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Material UI
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BitBucket
Now this was more in my wheelhouse. Learning frontend development was my main focus during high-school. Here I got to focus on that skill through realizing Adobe XD designs into pixel perfect implementations made in React. And I took this craft seriously, enough so that whatever I worked on had more polish than the rest of the application and kind of made it look bad. Whoops...
Avante IO
Backend Django Developer (Co-op)
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Python
Django
Docker
PostgreSQL
CircleCI
GitHub
This was my first ever job. Was a good start. I was basically solo maintaining a Django backend with issues being handed to me by my senior developer supervisor. The app I was maintaining was a B2B app for tracking deliveries and shipments. It had a plethora of data so a lot of my work was using that data to improve the delivery path prediction algorithm.
Funnily enough, this was also my first exposure to backend development, which surprised my supervisor immensely when I told him that near the end of the co-op term. His suprise was due to how unapparant my lack of knowledge was. Even though I learned SQL in about 3 days, and Django on the fly. Fortunately, my foray into learning web dev before this made me accustomed to reading docs and learning to trace through programs effectively.