Travers La Ville.

Building beautiful applications that just work.

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I am a Software Engineer passionate about developing open research tools with open-source technology.

Python

SQL

JavaScript

Pandas

Git

More about Me

I am an Austin dog dad and blues cat looking for opportunities to collaborate with non-profit organizations as a Software Engineer. My background in software spans 10 years and includes: Technical Support Engineer, software development and project management. I acquried skills in Python, SQL, Javascript from University of Texas at Austin in Data Analysis and data visualization program.

Interested in the potential of using open reasearch in rooting out bias. Currently, I am voluntueering with the nonprofit OpenAustin and helping to create an inviting Slack experience by building Welcome Bot.

Recently completed a web scraping project using, Python, Selenium, JavaScript, and Flask to visualize current articles about Mars missions and general “Red planet” data.

Strengths include: bringing entusiasm to the "idea phase", the curiosity of a Trekkie playing 20 questions with Sir. Patrick Stewart and a knack for collaborating across diverse, globally distributed teams.

Checkout a few recent projects below or a blog post on my debugging process.

A few technologies I use:

Python, SQL, Jupyter Notbook, Pandas, Flask, Docker, ChatGPT, Tableau, Leaflet.js, Azure Functions, AWS S3, VS Code, HTML5, CSS3, Git, Bootstrap, JavaScript

Recent Projects

These are just a few of the projects I have worked on.

Earthquake Tracker

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Earthquake tracker using Leaflet.js, Mapbox, GeoJSON data and APIs to map recent earthquake activity by magnitude.

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Movie Data ETL

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An automated pipeline that takes in raw data from Wikipedia, MovieLens and The Movie Database, then performs the appropriate transformations and finally loads the data into existing tables connected to a database.

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PyBer Analysis

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A data visual analysis using Pandas to create a summary of the PyBer ride-sharing data in rural, suburban and urban cities and recommend improvements based the findings.

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Mars web scrapper

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Flask web scraper used to scrape Mars mission text and images successfully from sites. Then, store the image urls and text in MongoDB.

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Citibike Analysis

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Data analysis of a bikeshare service using Python and Tableau visualizations.

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Relational Database Analysis

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Demonstration of a relational assessment of employee data and detailed information on the future retirees presently working at the company.

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Education

University of Texas at Austin

Data Visualization and Analysis - Certificate| Jun 2022 - Nov 2022

Concordia University Texas

Attended, Computer Science | 2016- 2018

Austin Community College

Transfer, Computer Science|2015-2016

Lee College

Transfer, Core Curriculum|2003-2009

I'm available for work.

Actively contributing to new projects and seeking a full-time role in a fast-paced, agile environment. Get in touch!

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