Thomas Jack Hixon
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Full-Stack Software Engineer with a strong passion for debugging, UI, and clean code. Drawn to software engineering through a love of problem-solving, innovating, and creative solutions. Looking for ways to grow and improve; always ready and willing to learn new things. Hoping to change the world one line of code at a time.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Bootstrap, CSS3, Firebase, Git, HTML5, Heroku, JavaScript, MongoDB, Node.js, PostgreSQL, React, Redux
TECHNICAL PROJECTS
Jckgram - Website GitHub
Login with Google and securely store your photos on Firebase with this Instagram clone.
• Designed a responsive, minimalistic UI to display your photos and login prompts.
• Implemented Google Authentication with Firebase in the backend.
• Using Firebase Cloud Firestore setup proper rules for authentication. Colin Memeson - Website GitHub
Generate a custom meme based on this tv show using Canvas.js and Express.
• Implemented an Express server that returns a meme based on txt provided
• Canvas.js for drawing text onto image and rendering finished product.
• Deployed to Heroku with rate-limiter and slow-down to prevent abuse. URLShortener - Website GitHub
Generate a short URL to visit your favorite websites!
• Used MonoDB Atlas to log URLs and associated short IDs to a database.
• Designed entire website with custom CSS and HTML5.
• Generated a custom short URL if user doesn’t provide one with nanoid. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelance Full-Stack Developer Chattanooga, TN Feb 2020 - Current Full-Stack Software Engineer
● Researches new technology to write code in order to further knowledge and stay up-to-date on software
● Codes full-stack web applications and deploys them to GitHub in order to positively impact the digital community
● Deploys front-ends and back-ends to hosting sites such as Heroku and Vercel
● Debugs code using stack traces, error codes, and UI bugs to unit test code effectively and efficiently EDUCATION
Codecademy.com Chattanooga, TN Nov 2019
Full Stack Web Development