Beau Jayme
Badilla

Pihp

Deciding where to eat with a group is chaos — someone rattles off restaurants while everyone swipes yes or no. Pihp forces the group to be decisive through a draft and a spread of info about each spot. It's the biggest, proudest thing I've built.

I wanted to build this for two years, failing a few times because my skills weren't there yet, before it finally got off the ground. I'd learned front-end, back-end, and databases as separate college topics — never as one unit — and there was far more to JavaScript than I expected (promises and async/await gave me a proper headache). I also learned the hard way how much third-party API costs, limits, and terms of service can shape an application's whole design.

• Vue
• Vuex
• Vue-Router
• Vuetify
• Jest
• JavaScript
• Firebase
• Express
• Node.js
• REST

Type Racing Game

I've loved typing games since racing cars around an elementary computer lab. At university I built a browser typing game with three classmates as a solo-play experience; after graduation I took it further and made it multiplayer to sharpen my back-end skills.

• Multiplayer
• Express
• Node.js
• Webpack
• Socket.io
• WebSockets
• Phaser 3
• JavaScript

Music Platform APIs

Ever wondered how Spotify or iTunes work behind the scenes? For a back-end engineering course my group played the part of the companies building them and replicated how we thought those platforms function — with responsibilities split across developer and operations roles.

• Python
• ScyllaDB
• SQL
• NoSQL
• Kong API Gateway
• Flask
• SQLite

Network Protocols

I rarely had to think about how my data actually travels. Working a few layers lower gave me real perspective on where and how it moves — and how exceptional each protocol can be under the right use case.

• Python
• Sockets
• Hashing
• Selectors
• Multiplexing
• UDP
• TCP
• Checksums