Nick Ortiz

Hi! I'm Nick, a software engineer based in Fairfield County, CT. Here to write some clean, efficient, and DRY code!

My first interactions with software engineering started in high school, where I was picked to attend an information technology magnet school in Stamford, CT. While it gave me skills in everything Microsoft, it also gave me the opportunity to try my hand at everything from visual basic programming, GIS, animation, photography, and most importantly it opened to door to web design, starting with Adobe Dreamweaver.

Holding onto that basic foundation I found myself walking down the path of psychology in college and graduated with a Bachelors degree. After college I immediately started to work with children with special needs, and although I was rewarded with patience and problem solving skills, I found myself looking back at all the previous skills I had once known and started the “What if...” game. Here is the start of that game: my projects and portfolio, I hope you enjoy as much as I enjoyed making them

Nick's Recipe Book

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My personal recipe book! A solution for a problem I had: somewhere to store all my recipes that is easy to access at home and the store! Users can browse recipes, or sign up and add some of their own . A full-stack Express/EJS app with a Mongo database.

Technologies Used:

Javascript, EJS, Express, MongoDB, bCrypt, CSS, Materialize

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Donut Dash

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My first game! Given the freedom to create anything, and I decided to make an infinite running game! A very fun challenge, and really tested my ability to read docs and problem solve on my own, using Phaser, a Javascript framework no one around had any experience with. Includes a rails backend using sql to keep track of the leaderboard!

Technologies Used:

Phaser, Javascript, Rails, SQL, postgres

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The Pokéstop

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The Pokéstop: my first app! Using the pokéapi, I was able to create a version of the Pokédex to fetch info about whatever pokemon the user chooses! Including fetching and displaying sprites, type, and extra flavor text. After completing the pokédex, I moved on to recreate the "Who's that Pokémon" game featured in the original show! This was a very fun project, and seeing my favorite childhood memories come to life I realized the endless possibilities of things to create!

Technologies Used:

Javascript, CSS, HTML, jQuery

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Foodso

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My first experience with group coding, and a fun project to work on! We decided to make an app where we could add restaurants(including a few favorite items from the menu) in our area to the database. When logged in, users have access to a favorites list, where they can add restaurants they like for easy access.

Technologies Used:

React, JSX, Bootstrap, axios, Express, MongoDB

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