Hi! I'm Caleb, a software developer with a background in process engineering and software testing.
Hi! I'm Caleb, a software developer with a background in process engineering and software testing.
I ask purposeful questions and tenaciously seek answers.
I continuously seek growth opportunities and diligently implement improvements.
I build and use systems and processes to ensure excellence.
I am a competent and dependable team member. Through hard work and collaboration, I will have a positive impact on society.
EverBond is a web app which provides a simple and effective way to sustain and grow personal relationships. Everbond helps prevent relational decay by providing a place to record and review interactions with friends and family. I highly recommend you click the demo button below to learn more and view a couple of brief videos demonstrating the app.
Quarto With Friends provides a way to remotely play the game Quarto with a friend. You share the link and then alternate turns selecting and placing pieces until a winner is declared. Quarto is a modern classic strategy game where you win by getting 4 in a row of the same attribute. But the twist is that you select the piece for your opponent to place and vice versa. To learn more about the game and to try it yourself, check out the demo below.
Dueling with Dad Jokes is a website where players can have lighthearted fun with friends and family through playing a game where they face-off by telling terrible dad jokes to each other and try not to laugh. I use the icanhazdadjoke.com API for my joke database to provide random jokes during gameplay. I am also using this API in my Find Jokes feature.
I am obsessed with finding and understanding patterns in the world around me. I always have been. The specific object of this obsession has varied greatly over the years - Rubik's cubes, music theory, Jungian typology, symbolic logic. This curiosity combined with my aptitude for solving problems led me to pursue and obtain a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering (with minors in Systems Engineering and Mathematics).
I began my career as a Process Engineer for The J.M. Smucker Company. I loved using my analytical skills to continuously improve the manufacturing methods and machinery. But time and time again, I found myself drawn to the digital side of things. I coded new routines for the palletizing robot. I developed control logic for a conveyor system. I collected and analyzed machine data to analyze where our bottlenecks were. None of these projects were really mechanical in nature, so I thought it might be time to focus on what I was truly passionate about.
After a break to travel, get married, and do some life reflection, I got a job as a Test Engineer with Issuetrak. This would be a chance for me to better assess if the software industry would be a better fit for me than mechanical engineering. And the answer I discovered was a resounding yes! I found myself to be a natural at developing and following testing procedures to help improve the quality of the software. I thrived being a part of the Scrum dev team, working closely with seasoned software engineers. Testing software made me hungry to build it myself.
There wasn't a clear or quick path for me to become a developer at Issuetrak, so I decided to begin learning full-time. With the assistance of Thinkful, I intensely immersed myself in the world of full-stack web development and built the foundational technical skills required to be a good developer.
Today, I am continuously expanding my skills and am eager to join a strong team of developers who also share my passion for pursuing excellence.