Jacob Yaw

With a background in purchasing, logistics and inventory control, I am adept at system optimization, operational efficiencies, data analysis and relationship building. I've used my creative and analytical approach to solve problems like targeting and capitalizing on trends to following the virtual paper trail in the company system and correcting issues somewhere along the supply chain. With my current set of skills, I hope to use my creative approach to solve complex problems and work together to help others achieve their goals in the world of tech.

My Tech Story

Born and raised in the good ol' Midwest!

Having learned how to build my own computer, and customize others, I've been interested in the hardware side of things for quite a while. My interest in software started with the gaming community during my teenage years. From what began as learning about mods and customization, eventually transformed into opening up game files and modifying basic parameters of the code to get the results I wanted. But software had always looked a bit too "rocket science" for my taste, despite having a long-standing curiosity.

It wasn't until the peak of Covid19, when everything felt somewhat uncertain in life, that I jumped on the opportunity to begin my software journey and haven't looked back. I never thought I could wrap my head around algorithms and data structures, but now I find myself fully immersed in them! Turns out that I have quite a passion for it and don't plan on stopping any time soon!

(background image brought to you by The Missouri Botanical Garden)

Recent Work

Stratify, An eCommerce platform designed for multi-vendor use

Stratify is a full-stack web application that uses a React-Redux client framework in tandem with a Ruby on Rails server-side framework and takes advantage of PostgreSQL as its relational database.

Deployed Github Demo

Art Gallery, a content-sharing app for artists created with Node.js, React, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL

Art Gallery acts as a social media platform for sharing artwork. It uses a React client framework in tandem with a Ruby on Rails server-side framework and takes advantage of PostgreSQL as its relational database.

Github Demo

Plant Pals(front-end), A plant-sharing app! Front-end created with Node.js and React.

Plant Pals is a basic CRUD application which uses a Ruby backend alongside Sinatra and Active Record.

Github Demo

Plant Pals(back-end)

By running the separate back-end in tandem with the front-end, users have the ability to create, update and delete posts about their plants as well as see other users' posts about plants.

Github

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