Kylene Hohman Email & Phone Number

Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States

༶ Open-source log management tool developed under tech accelerator OS Labs (opensourcelabs.io)༶ Co-authored custom npm package to pre-configure a logging library capable of sending user customized log level and message to Sherlogs API endpoint༶ Generated custom frontend and backend logs on external application and transported them via HTTP stream to Sherlogs API endpoint ༶ Leveraged Node.js and Express to handle HTTP requests and responses to custom API endpoints, enforcing a modular and seamless RESTful service༶ Developed custom middleware functions to send log output to MongoDB database, employing a flexible schema for storing third-party application logs༶ Assembled 10+ reusable React components to deliver an interactive and flexible UI, curating ability for user to execute highly customizable searches while employing diverse life-cycle features and state management practices༶ Established a multi-container application with Docker and Docker Compose to achieve a lightweight, scalable, and dynamically manageable workload for both development and production environments༶ Spearheaded test-driven development with Jest and Supertest to programmatically test all HTTP requests and regulate codebase༶ Engineered application with Vite to capitalize on hot module reloading and efficient start and rebuild times to diminish start and rebuild times ༶ Optimized development workflow by supervising team of four engineers, evaluating 25+ pull requests, and handling new technology implementation༶ Employed CI/CD workflow for Sherlogs and npm library landing pages with AWS Amplify to streamline code deployment and simplify automatic builds

༶ Acquired current COVID infection and vaccination statistics from multiple third-party API endpoints by utilizing Express to handle requests ༶ Implemented Google Charts to assemble interactive heat map of global COVID statistics capable of rendering any single country when selected by user that was populated with a table containing country-specific COVID data༶ Restructured HTTP and API requests with Axios, using the built-in timeout option to mitigate issue of slow API response due to large data load༶ Handled dynamic routing and devised a seamless user experience with React Router to create a fast-loading single-page environment ༶ Authenticated users with flexible and modular Passport middleware to provide option for user to generate account with username and password༶ Deployed OAuth 2.0 (Google) to equip application with additional option to authenticate and authorize user with Google account ༶ Maintained integrity of user data by preserving account information and custom trip preferences in ACID compliant PostgreSQL database, leveraging primary and foreign-key relational data structure of application༶ Directed team of four engineers to improve productivity, lead stand-ups, facilitate discussion, and organize process flow of development

༶ Stored sensitive user information in database by implementing a bcrypt hashing function and salt factor, ensuring integrity and security of app༶ Constructed interactive and personalized calendar populated with requested client data and upcoming user events tied to functional chat messaging board for users to communicate amongst each other to coordinate student rides ༶ Integrated React Google Maps and Google Maps API to render location of upcoming events, allowing user to search for venues within close vicinity ༶ Managed sessions in Node.js by storing session objects in MongoDB database, providing scalable solution for recording session information༶ Built application with webpack for future scale, maintainability and faster load times by writing configuration to utilize hot module reloading, ES6+ transpilation for developer packages, and using minification and uglification features to decrease bundled file size.