Hello, I'm Ben. I'm a software engineer at Humanforce in Brisbane. I'm currently working with Laravel, React.js, GraphQL, and AWS.
My projects
CryptoCrowd
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Cryptocurrency sentiment analysis on tweets. Users can see the overall sentiment (positive, negative or neutral) of different Cryptocurrencies based on what people are currently tweeting. Users can also see keywords and an average sentiment score. Stateless application that uses Elasticache and S3 on AWS. It also used EC2 and auto-scaling to manage demand.
Company Asset Trading
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Client-server system written in Java for trading of virtual assets within departments of a company. Facilitated trades via a marketplace model where users can buy and sell assets. Admins of an organisation can create assets, users and modify details. Uses MariaDB as a database and Swing for the GUI.
Euphorus
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React application for viewing country happiness data collected from the World Happiness Report initiative. Users can filter by year, country and search limit. AG Grid and Chart.js were used to present the data.
Country Happiness API
Made with:
Developed and deployed an Express API to support the front-end of the Euphorus Happiness Data web application. Routes support query parameters and authorization using JWT. Includes endpoints for countries, rankings, factors, registration, login, and profile. Tested software extensively with Jest and created Swagger documentation for the API as well.
Task Manager Console App
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Console app that manages tasks in a project. Users can load projects from a file and generate a seqeuence to complete them in, based on each task's dependencies. Users can also find earliest possible commencement time of each task, add new tasks, update tasks, remove tasks, and save the results to a text file.
Family Tree Shortest Path
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Python program that implements a breadth-first search algorithm to generate a minimal spanning tree. Problem was to calculate a shortest path from a starting vertex in a graph to each other vertex. The vertices represent people and each person is related to every other person through parent-child relationships. A person can see how they are related to each other person in the tree
My Skills
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React
- Node.js
- PHP
- Laravel
- Symfony
- Python
- Java
- HTML
- CSS
- SCSS
- Git
- MySQL
- Linux
- AWS
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Shopify
My experience
Web Developer
M3 Digital - Contract
Front-end development for a variety of Shopify stores such as FitazFK, Rider Collective, Masseuse Massage, Francesca Jewellery and Salty Captain. Developed high quality landing pages and front end features using HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript and Liquid.
September 2021 - February 2022Junior Developer
YouPay - Full-time
Developed new features using Laravel, Vue.js, PHP, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, MySQL and REST APIs. Created an email notification system for mechants to receive weekly/monthly summaries of YouPay carts created, paid and cancelled. I also integrated YouPay into dozens of stores.
February 2022 - November 2022Software Engineer
The University of Queensland - Full-time
Full-stack software engineer in the Application Development and Support team. Worked on web applications such as CAHP (Casual Academic Hire and Payment), UQ Maps, UQ Donations, and Programs and Courses.
November 2022 - January 2024My Education
Bachelor of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Graduated in 2023
GPA 6.2/7
- Major in Computer Science
- Minor in Networks & Security
- Minor in Mobile Applications
- Science & Engineering Dean's List - 2019 & 2021
Contact me
Please contact me directly at benrogers1299@outlook.com or through this form.