Morgan Waites

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Student at Epicodus

About Me

I'm originally from Alabama and have resided in Portland, Oregon the last six years. I decided to join Epicodus to get my foot in the door in the software development industry.

I enjoy writing, hiking, running, biking, eating vegan food, and coding!

Job Experience

I've worked as a legal assistant, factory worker, and sales agent. I also interned at a startup briefly.

Skills

My skills include: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, React, Java, Python, Django, SQLite, HTML/CSS, Javascript.

Portfolio

My Projects

1. Tarot Card Reader App

   • Team Week project to show proficiency in Ruby on Rails. A user can get learn about tarot cards, get either a three-card or ten-card tarot card reading. Deployed with Heroku.
   • Made with Rails and Postgres
   • Github Repository
   • View it here!

2. Movie Suggester

   • Movie Suggester web application uses the TMDB API to get movie data to make film recommendations to the user based on user input/filters selected.
   • Made with jQuery, HTML/CSS, Webpack framework.
   • Github Repository
   • View it live here!

3. La Journal

   • A web app for creating blog posts.
   • Made with Python, Django, Bootstrap HTML/CSS.
   • Github Repository
   • View it live here (still in development).

4. Best Cities

   • A site for finding the best city based on your occupation.
   • Made with Python and Flask. Launched with Heroku.
   • Github Repository
   • View it here!

5. Mario's Specialty Foods Site

   • Ruby on Rails app for food store site showing CRUD functionality, relational database. Deployed with Heroku!
   • Made with Rails and Postgres
   • Github Repository
   • View it here!

6. Simon Game App for Android

   • An Android App emulating classic retro Simon Game. Colored buttons light up in pattern user must repeat.
   • Made with Java and Android Studio.
   • Github Repository

View all my GitHub repositories here!