Hi, I am William Olyslager

full-stack developer

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About Me

Background

I am a self-taught developer who is passionate about learning and building full-stack applications. I received my BS in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Texas A&M University in August 2018 and have been developing ever since. Being born and raised in Guatemala has given me the perspective to understand how much technology, inovation, and software can improve the quality of life of underdeveloped communities. I would love to one day leverage the skills I am building to contribute to that cause.

Why Development?

Software development is the only skill that allows someone to build a product, service, or entertainment application and deploy it to the web for the entire world to access with nothing but a computer and internet connection. I think that's pretty amazing. Personally, I want to be involved in an industry that is always innovating and that has an impact on people's lives. Writing code, building applications, and solving challenging puzzles and bugs are all incredibly stimulating activities for me!

My Work

Skills

languages, frameworks, and technologies

HTML

NodeJS

CSS

Express

Javascript

PostgresSQL

React

RESTful API's

My work

A selection of my range of work

Description

This application let's you play the classic Snake Game! You can control the snake with the arrow keys to catch as many apples as you can. Let's see if you can beat the high score.

Technologies

The Snake Game App is built with CSS, HTML, and Vanilla JavaScript.

Description

This application allows a user to register an account, login, and submit image URLs to be analyzed by a face detection algorithm (courtesy of the Clarifai API).

Technologies

The Face Detection App has a React front end that communicates with a Node Express server. The server communicates with a PostgresSQL database to validate user login.