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Jake Park

Solutions Developer

I am a full stack application developer. I went to Columbia University and graduated as a mechanical engineer. I particularly enjoyed working with my hands in the machine shop, applying theory to producing tangible work pieces. I've always loved researching, building, and sharing solutions.

Software Projects

Asteroids!

A Javascript re-imagining of classic Asteroids gameplay

Live Github
  • - Intuitive movement and shooting controls
  • - AI controlled enemy targets and fires at player
  • - Collision detection and resolution for all objects in scene
  • - Inelastic collisions allow for fun physics-based movement
  • - Objects textured with sprite maps against a stellar backdrop

myFacebook

A Backbone.js web app inspired by Facebook

Github
  • - Single page app prefetches content for quick page navigation
  • - Self-Join table and single request SQL queries permit follower model required for authorization of profile views
  • - User privacy requires authorization of friendship requests
  • - Omniauth allows quick user authentication via Twitter accounts

Chess

Github
  • - A fully-featured two player chess played in the command line
  • - Multi-level class inheritance structure
  • - Move validation via board state duplication

Here are some of the technologies I work with.

(so far)

JavaScript

React

Vue

Angular

Backbone

jQuery

Ruby

Rails

HTML5

CSS

SQL

About Me

  • I love to dance like nobody's watching.
  • I've run two marathons (so far) : [ 4:26, 4:06 ]
  • The tallest mountain I've summited was 10,000 feet - by bicycle!