JayDev&Design
JAY REYES
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
DEVELOPMENT
DESIGN
01. Building an Accessible World
Linux Medication Manager TUI
The Medication Manager TUI is a bash TUI I made for myself and others with similar situations to not only track our medications, appointments, and mood, but to do so in a sleek, stylish terminal app (you know how us Linux users can be!)
- Add, view, and maintain a record of your medications, appointments, and moods
- Titled journal entries with the ability to write whatever you feel in the moment
- A simple installation process to make using the app a breeze!
LanceIO
A PWA dashboard designed to make freelancing more manageable and accessible to neurodivergent individuals as well as those who generally need a bit of help staying organized.
- Tracking, managing, and invoicing freelance orders in one dashboard
- Designed to improve client-contractor relationships for long-term conversions (based on a neurodivergent approach of 'know what I can')
- Income tracking across various currencies as well as plotting to see a general overview of your year of freelancing
3DS Diagnostic Assistant
A homebrew application written in C using the devkitarm provided toolchain to display useful diagnostic information about the 3DS from touch screen positioning to determine calibration problems, to battery health checks and networking status. Try it out sometime if you have a homebrewed 3DS you need to repair- the 3DS Diagnostic Assistant may beneficial!
- Quick access to diagnostic data for 3DS hardware including joystick, gyroscope, touch, and even 3D-slider calibration
- Access to how the system currently views the battery health to check for battery problems
- Access to more specific network data to diagnose connectivity problems (basic only)
Rapifly
**HAS BEEN ABANDONED BY OWNER** Based on an intuitive new approach to project management and problem solving, Rapifly was a dashboard for managing community-oriented projects with the goal of gamififying problem solving for the sake of a better future.
- Tracking, managing, and invoicing freelance orders in one dashboard
- Designed to improve client-contractor relationships for long-term conversions (based on a neurodivergent approach of 'know what I can')
- Income tracking across various currencies as well as plotting to see a general overview of your year of freelancing
02. Where I've Been Recently
Planning Synergies PBC Inc.
Lead Software Engineer and DevOps Engineer
12/22-07/23
- Lead a team of developers and designers to bring a test demo from deprecated to production
- Successfully migrated a deprecated codebase (written using MEAN stack), and restructured the architecture from a monolith to microservice-oriented.
- Developed various secure servers for both in-house monitoring of the product, and the product itself.
- Conducted interviews and successfully hired candidates to be part of the development team.
- As the only developer when I first came onboard, I still earned a notable investment for our CEO and the company.
- Promoted from software engineer to lead engineer and devops enginner within 3 months for my performance and attention to detail.
- Managed a team of devs and designers through the Azure DevOps suite
- Despite time constraints, and my lack of Azure experience at the time, I still successfully deployed the demo product through Azure and configured it properly.
Freelance Software Engineer
Software Engineer, Web Designer, and Site Admin
11/20-PRESENT
- Developed various websites to improve conversions for small business
- Worked with teams across various industries and from various backgrounds to bring products to fruition
- Built and maintained a steady client pool through my dedication and performance
- Experienced across both front- and back-end development for websites, webapps, and software for various platforms, most notably Linux
03. This is My Developer Journey
On Pokemon, Physics, and a Self-Motivated College Student
What do Pokemon, physics class, and the desire to do your own thing lead to? Well, if you're me, all it takes is a sprinkle of Gengar, a pinch of Newtonian Mechanics, and a heaping scoop of determination- and you find yourself a software engineer!
My development journey started back in high school where I was exposed to HTML4 (yes, 4) when a friend of mine taught me a few tricks to build a very barebones blog- no styles, nothing of the like. The blog was essentially, more or less, a joke for a website, but at that time I wasn't taking programming as anything more than a little trick I could do in class when I was bored.
While high school was a brief intro to a world I never knew existed at the time, college is where I began taking programming seriously- not because I was a comp sci major (I was actually going for a double major focused in chemical and biomedical engineering), but because physics class was repetitive, problems were boring, and "I can do this faster" was all that would ring in my ears, I took on python and moved onto developing a simple physics caluclator- where we all seem to start in this field isnt it- a calculator? Anyways, fast forward a few programming-filled months and I dropped out of college to pursue software engineering, and I never, ever looked back.
On Freelancing, Reflection, and Moving Forward
Once I was comfortable programming, around November of 2020 I started freelancing! With Fiverr as may main platform even today, I found a niche all my own for helping others organize their lives and businesses so they can focus on what matters most to them! From basic services like transferring notes to Obsidian vaults in markdown, to intense months-long contracts such as Rapifly- a unique work situation where I found myself as lead software engineer, scrum master, azure admin, and even a proxy-human resources agent sifting through resumes and interviewing a variety of individuals for various roles in the business.
Ultimately, freelancing has unlocked unbelievable opportunities for me that, had I stayed in college, I don't believe I would have had the fortune to experience otherwise. While I plan to go back one day, for now I am comfortable with the decision I made back in 2020, and I look forward to sharing my knowledge and expertise with you.
Moving forward, I look to stop freelancing entirely because while I love the freedom of being my own leader,I also enjoy having a stable living, and for any employers reading this, I look forward to moving on from this chapter of self-employment, and starting my next chapter anew with your business!