From Public Sector To Senior Software Engineer: How I made the Transition

December 16, 2018 in blog

I joined the US Navy after graduating from college. The service commitment is 5 years. At the end of my service commitment during my terminal leave, I obtained a position with a mature startup in NYC as a Senior Software Engineer. There were a lot of bumps in the road during the last five years, especially the last 3 weeks of my transition out of the Navy. I will share the story of how I prepared for my career transition and shed some light on how job search works today.

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When To Use Immutable Data Structures

December 7, 2018 in blog

Suppose you are asked this question during a technical interview:

When do you use immutable (functional) data structures and when do you use mutable data structure?

Security Considerations for Web Applications and Best Practices

December 6, 2018 in blog

This article discusses some pitfalls and techniques for securiing your JavaScript application against attacks such as XSS, CSRF, reverse tabnabbing, and security considerations working with open source.

Cribsheet for JavaScript Coding Interview

October 25, 2018 in blog

The coding interviews / coding challenges are designed to assess how productive someone can be with the language. In contrast to the algorithm whiteboarding interview, which assesses how the candidate go about solving a problem, or the architecture design interview, which assesses how the candidate’s experience in system engineering and product design, the coding interview is is utilized by the company interviewing you to answer one question:

Can you be productive with JavaScript?

A Complete Guide To Deploying Your Web App To Amazon Web Service

October 3, 2018 in blog

This a comprehensive guide for how to containerize your Mongo-Express-React-Node (MERN) app with Docker and deploy it to Amazon Web Service (AWS) Elastic Container Service (ECS). I will share my research and lessons learned deploying a MERN app, including what worked, what didn’t work, how I prepared the app for deployment and accomplished the deployment.

Web Developer Playbook: Rich Text Editor

August 14, 2018 in blog

In this article, I will show you add a rich text editor based on Draft.js to your web app. This post is part of the Web Developer Playbook series, created to provide examples, best practice, and suggestions for designing and building web services. I will be using libraries from the JavaScript ecosystem (e.g., Node.js, React.js) in all my examples. draftjs

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Don't Quit Your Job To Be An Entrepreneur

July 30, 2018 in blog

People have different reasons to want to quit their 9-5 to pursue entrepreneurship full time. I was drawn to the opportunity to take something from idea to product and being able to “be my own boss”. We all want the lifestyle of a successful entrepreneur but you don’t need to have your own VC funded startup to build a great product.

From Public Sector To Senior Software Engineer: How I made the Transition

When To Use Immutable Data Structures

Security Considerations for Web Applications and Best Practices

Cribsheet for JavaScript Coding Interview

A Complete Guide To Deploying Your Web App To Amazon Web Service

Web Developer Playbook: Rich Text Editor

Don't Quit Your Job To Be An Entrepreneur

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