About Me

Hello! My name is Joey DeGrand. I am a 5th year Computer Science student at Rochester Institute of Technology.

I'm experienced in: Angular, Python, Java, C, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Git, HTML, CSS

I've dabbled with: Node.js, Spring Boot, MySQL, MongoDB, GraphQL, Rust, Flask

Here are some courses I've taken:

Analysis Of Algorithms, Concepts Of Computer Systems, Mechanics Of Programming, Principles Of Data Management, Programming Language Concepts, Graph Theory, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Concepts of Paralell and Distributed Systems, Graph Theory, Foundations of Computer Graphics

Project - Camagotchi

A remake of the famous Tamagotchi toy, the digital pet simulator, written in C. The program utilizes the ncurses and multithreading libraries to recreate this experience. Future plans include 3D printing a case and attaching a screen and buttons to work with the program.

Spring 2019

GitHub
Work - SandBox Union

December 2020 - May 2021
August 2021 - June 2022

• Developed websites for upcoming and local busineses
• Technologies used include Angular and TypeScript for front-end, Node.js and Sequelize for API calls and database management, and MariaDB with MySQL Workbench for data storage
• Learned how to properly and efficiently structure a full-stack application

SandBox Union

Work - Intuit (Intern)

May 2021 - August 2021

• Worked on a dashboard to track statuses of pull requests with important updates to internal repositories, to be used by Program Managers
• Created the entire front-end in React and connected it to the backend
• Wrote backend in Java Spring which involved creating Java and GraphQL models, mutations, and queries and connecting to a MongoDB cluster. Also pulled data from GitHub and AWS Athena
• Learned how to write effective Mockito unit tests and how to architect my code in a readable and maintainable fashion

Intuit