Joseph Sipiorski

PinInit is a clone of the common social media platform Pinterest, where users create and share ideas organized in boards.

Some of aspects involved in creating this project were as follows

• Set up and implement a Ruby on Rails back end with a PostgreSQL db
• Set up frontend and backend user auth
• Utilize Amazon Web Services S3 (AWS) to store photos in the cloud uploaded by users
• Implement a React Redux frontend with core CRUD functionality native to Pinterest
• Connect a React Redux frontend with a Ruby on Rails backend via dynamic AJAX calls
• Utilize practical associations within Ruby on Rails backend to dynamically inform frontend components

Orbit is a 3D interactive visual graphic application that can be used to create simple shapes

Some of the aspects involved in creating this application are as follows

• Setting up a 3D scene on a canvas element hosted with Github Pages
• Utilizing THREE.js to create a 3D cube made up of smaller individual cubes
• Optimizing render quality during user interaction by utilizing InstancedMesh
• Implementing keyboard controls allowing user to interact with cubes in a more efficient means

GrillLit is web application that allows users to create events and invite other users

GrillLit is a collaborative effort accomplished by myself and four other software engineers, my responsibilities included primarily the backend

• Setup and implemented a Mongo DB
• Setup backend for user authentication as well as event and like functionality including routes models and validations