april theses / blog posts • tech • June 21, 2021
A nice testimonial from a coworker
Guess I did OK after all.
I recently switched jobs from the startup where I was employed as a software developer for about a year and a half.
My coworkers sent thoughtful goodbye messages, but I liked Alex's the best:
I never felt under-appreciated at that job, but it's nice seeing it put into one place like this.
Here's an overview of my contributions to that company:
- completely rebuilt the mobile application from the ground up
- React Native+Expo, Apollo GraphQL, Socket.IO
- automated whitelabelled deployment and builds for mobile apps
- Expo and some Bash scripts, and eventually Github Actions
- moved into the back end, introduced automated unit and integration testing
- Node, Express, Mongo, Jest, Github Actions for CI
- designed and implemented a timesheet approval feature, a customizable-per-tenant user onboarding flow, and a ton more features
- React, React Native, GraphQL and mostly-REST APIs on that Node/Express/Mongo back end
- picked up devops skills and helped manage the software release cycle
- Azure, Docker, Github Actions
- promoted to Senior Software Developer after a year, conducted code reviews and mentored more junior colleagues
I'm a little sad to be leaving behind the relationships I'd built there, but the team is in great shape even without me.
Now, onto the next chapter!