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Women's fashion wholesale e-commerce web application for Style in USA, inc.

• Solo project created with Rails, Backbone, jQuery, and AWS
• Advanced Backbone-on-Rails design patterns, including overriding parse methods to create Rails-like associations client-side
• Optimizing and rescaling product images, and uploading in S3 via paperclip API
• Scalable search queries via ElasticSearch, and logistics/backup automization via CRON jobs

Original shooting survival game written in Javascript

• Solo project developed with pure Javascript
• Sprite based visual interface consuming Canvas 2D API
• Supports smooth animation and intuitive controls via Javascript engine

React course final project demo app built with latest technologies and best practices

• Solo project created with React and Redux
• Advanced Redux design patterns with middleware for dynamic reducers and lean action creators
• Incorporated ES6 features for improved performance and readability
• Responsive Web Design with CSS-Modules and lazy loading assets

Demo web application for playing, customizing and recording music on your keyboard

• Solo project created with Rails, Backbone, and Heroku
• Advanced use of dynamic elements for custom drag-and-drop UI, and preparing audios
• Extensive use of Ajax in modal authentication for partial user access to content

Collaboration and organization demo app based on Trello

• Rich user experience featuring intuitive drag-and-drop UI to reorganize cards and items