Engineering Manager at Cisco | CMO at Zero Assumptions

What I do


    At work
  • Lead a team of App Deployment engineers
  • Build Knowledge Management strategy and Agile processes
  • Advocate for mental health awareness and web accessibility. I am certified in WCAG standards via the W3Cx (World Wide Web Consortium).
  • Outside work
  • Read nonfiction and fiction
  • Do yoga and hike the hills of Los Angeles
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This is a full stack web app using React, Express, and MySQL through Sequelize. Users register and then log in. The user's inputted registration data is formatted and users view this once logged in. This application was deployed to Heroku. View the repository README for the Vimeo walkthrough link and build notes.

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Caw uses the Watson Personality Insights AI built by IBM to analyze inputted text. Users can sign up and have their searches stored for later reference. This app was built using React, Express, and MySQL through Sequelize. This application was deployed to Heroku. Please visit the repository or build notes to learn more.

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This is a memory card game built with React.js. I used two primary components and built the game logic. The game demonstrates my ability to plan modular portions of code and incorporate logic that is changed through state. The theme of this game is literary giants, who have helped me to think more critically.

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Technologies That I Have Experience With

  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Bootstrap 4
  • JavaScript
  • JQuery
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Express.js
  • React
  • Node
  • Sequelize
  • Mongoose
  • Git
  • Python
  • Flask
  • React Native with Expo
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This is a React app that queries the New York Times database. It also allows users to save and delete articles that appear on the application front end. Articles saved are stored in a MongoDB database. This application was deployed on Heroku.

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This scraper app grabs the articles on my blog website and stores some data to a database. Users can scrape, save, and comment on the articles. They can also delete articles from the saved articles page. This application uses the npm package cheerio for the scraping functionality.

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This Express app that uses a MySQL database. Using CRUD methodology, the application has create, read, and update capabilities. This application was deployed to Heroku.

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Work Experience

I've worked as a Senior Technical Writer for an API gateway company, where I worked as a solo writer on their API client product. I built a fully accessible Jekyll site for the API client documentation and open sourced it on GitHub.

Previously, I was an API Technical Writer for a highly-reputable telecom company in the Los Angeles area. I completely re-wrote their documentation, which involved me knowing the ins-and-outs of the API. I was also the sole developer on a React Native app for the telecom company. The app uses Python, Flask, MySQL, SQLAlchemy, and the company API. The goal of the app is to show the usability and applicability of the API.

I'm especially aware of the need for clear documentation, having used a lot of it myself. Bad documentation, no matter how good the product, can deter people. My goal is to make it very easy for developers to jump right into building.

Select Articles From My Blog

Writer Turned Web Developer

As a writer, I wanted to challenge myself to do something far out of my comfort zone. I have always been intimidated by computers and in awe of web developers. So web development was the clear choice for this particular challenge.

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Frustrations of Learning Code

I have been warned that the coding bootcamp experience is going to be intensive so I have taken calculated steps in preparing. But in trying to be highly prepared, I have come across some frustrations of learning code.

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Terminal Basics

Termimal is used to easily navigate and access directories and files on your computer. On top of that, you will use terminal to pull and push code to git. I will run through some basic Terminal commands.

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Education and Academic Achievements

  • Certificate of Completion, UC Davis Extention Full-Stack Flex Program
  • B.A. English, UC Davis
  • Graduation from UC Davis with Certificate of Outstanding Achievement
  • Certificate for WAI0.1X: Introduction to Web Accessibility through W3Cx (World Wide Web Consortium)
  • Santa Barbara City College
    • A.A. Anthropology
    • A.A. Arts and Humanities
    • A.A. Behavioral Sciences
  • Member
    • Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society
    • Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society
    • National Society of Leadership and Success

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If you'd like to get in touch with me, please do so through my LinkedIn or email me at falondarville@gmail.com.