James Lee

Barindra Narinesingh

Software Developer

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About Me

I am a native New Yorker who went through the public school system then through the state college system and then I was thrown into the job market where I have been since.

Since graduating in January 2017, I have attended numerous coding classes and meetups across NYC to get my programming skills leveled up.

History

In terms of coding history, I have attended the CUNYCodes portfolio intensive bootcamp, the CodeSmith Frameworks Full Stack Bootcamp and have participated in various hackathons and meetups across the city. Every event I go to it seems like there is a lot of I don't know what I don't know. So I try to dabble and learn something from every event I go.

A noteworthy event happened to me when I went to a workshop at Google’s Office in NYC and a recruiter told me “it is becoming the norm to graduate with a bachelors then attend a boot camp and then have a few projects on the side before applying for a job with them.” So I took that to heart and have been doing just that. My dream is to one day work for big company like Google where the culture is so positive that I look forward to having fun at work.

What am I doing with my life?

As of September 2017 I am an Computer Scientist (Intern) at The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) in Detroit Michigan as part of the Computer Simulations Team, we basically run simulations for various scenarios involving people, vehicles and the environment. (Yes I conduct real experiments and enjoy it as the ARMY has the latest and greatest technology available, in the event they don’t, they go out and buy it.)

A few of my hobbies are:

  • Playing competitive video games with my friends such as Overwatch or Halo.
  • Running, I am actually a lifelong runner, been running ever since high school, through college, through the military, through college again, and now still to this day.
  • Working out, exercise is my way of destressing and learning, I put on podcasts and audio books of stuff I’m interested in and learn on the go.
  • Muay Thai kickboxing, I been a student for years, I actually trained at the Lumpinee boxing Stadium in Bangkok Thailand for a month. Most recently I spent a year and a half with the Iron Rooster Team in NYC but have since taken a year break due to working in Detroit. I look forward to continuing when I get a chance.
  • My vice is that I am a glutton, I love to eat at different restaurants every chance I get, the sense of eating in a new place with new people is exciting every time I go out. Fun fact: You could probably bribe me with a cookie

    • Latest Projects

    FoodProof - CUNYCodes

    A food meal prep app for Android

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    The CUNYCodes program is a portfolio development program, using agile technologies, we implemented features weekly based on the scrum model system.

    The android app back end uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a server which holds all the data we send, it is programmed in PHP and data is stored in a MySQL database. The applications front end is programmed in Java and XML. A food API is used for looking up recipes. A Clarify API was used for one of the features allowing the user to identify food based on pictures but was not implemented due to time constraints.

    The app allows the user to look up store and collaborate on recipes via its call system.

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    Program to use an improved Dijkstra Algorithm the A* algorithm to solve the amount of ways to solve a 8 puzzle.

    Created an program that solves an 8 puzzle matrix, whereby you can only move one tile at a time and need the tiles in order.

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    Flappy Bird for iOS/Android

    For the Global Game Jam 2017, they wanted us to use the theme waves, I wanted to learn how to build a game, the flappy bird game was not new but it was new to me.

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    Binary addition simulator

    A Simple Program to understand how carry, overflow and bit size effect binary number addition.

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    N Queen Puzzle solver

    Program to design a NxN Board them place N queens on the board in an intelligent manner using backtracking.

    Other Projects

    E-Voting Program

    A simple voting program that takes input from the command line and outputs it to a file while comparing another file. Written in C++

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    JavaScript30- 30 Days of Programming JavaScript Webpages

    Build 30 things in 30 days, an instructor led program to make 30 projects. I implement solutions as how I would code to keep my JavaScript knowledge fresh

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    Work in progress Open Source

    Work in progress.

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    Work Experience

    Computer Scientist - US ARMY-TARDEC (2017 - Present)

    Product Management overseeing the Lifecycle of projects to include acquisition, sustainment and disposal. Assisting the Computer Aided Visual Capabilities team to demonstrate the technologies the Army has available. (A lot of I do this but can't talk about it)

    Front End Developer - Codesmith-Frameworks (2017)

    Attending a Full Stack development boot camp to learn JavaScript and fine tune my HTML and CSS skills. I still have a lot to learn with the back end stuff.

    Front End Developer - CunyCodes (2017)

    Programmed XML for landing screens, Java for buttons and transitions between screens and incorporated a clarify API into the app to use machine learning to identify pictures.

    Finance Technician- United States Marine Corps (2010 - 2013)

    Used office software to continue day to day activates, processed financial claims and adjusted members pay accounts. Managed and maneuvered Excel, DTMS and MCTFS (IBM 3270) databases.

    My GitHub

    When I started coding I never used GitHub, I just kept multiple file save states. After working on various teams and learning about version control I started using it more. Unfortunately A lot of what I do is offline due to security issues but I post personal projects online.

    my GitHub