Jake Morales

About Me

I am currently seeking full-time positions Web Development. My career goal is to build web applications that have a positive impact on others. I am a fast learner, and I am constantly teaching myself new tools and technologies.

Work Experience

Full Stack Developer Rückbau (Nov 2019 - Present)

Developed “TryOurWine” as a tool for consumers to conveniently find wines sold by our clients
Proposed a pivot table library to improve development of tabular data and enhance user experience
Pitched and built a Progressive Web App to demonstrate its advantages over React Native

Manager Rolling Robots (Sept 2018 - Present)

Demonstrates leadership skills by scheduling 4 employees, organizing facilities, and coordinating curriculum

Projects

TryOurWine

TryOurWine is a web app for finding wine vendors in your area. I built it for my current team at Ruckbau.

Used Materialize CSS framework for out-of-the-box responsive design and styling to increase development velocity
Increased performance of filtering markers on a Google Map to constant time by using an index data structure
Improved security by integrating reCaptcha service to prevent web scraping of proprietary data
Served frontend and backend from the same server to simplify deployments and avoid CORS security issues

See live demo

ShareQ

ShareQ is a web app that enables users to collaborate on Spotify playlists with friends and vote for which song to plays next in the queue.

Built the frontend with React.js to abstract the complexity of developing a UI that frequently updates
Used the socket.io library for resilient real-time updates by reconnecting websockets during network errors
Decreased critical load times by storing frequently updated data in memory with Redis instead of disk storage

GitHub - React Frontend

GitHub - Django Backend

PostBoard

PostBoard is an app that empowers everyday people by

Uses TypeScript to improve developer experience by structuring data and catching errors before runtime
Implemented GraphQL as an abstraction layer on top of the backend to simplify client-side requests for data

GitHub - React Frontend

GitHub - Express/Node Backend

Docker Containers for Airline App

I containerized an Airline Database app using Docker and docker-compose. One container encapsulates the PostgreSQL database, and another holds the Java CLI for interfacing with the database.