Mabuhay!
I'm Ellaine.
A former Interior Designer, hotelier, now turned programmer.
I'm a Silicon Valley-based web developer, with a history in hospitality, background in construction and a Bachelor of Science degree in Interior Design. I consider myself as a meticulous, passionate learner, and a persevering individual that always tries to do a good job in all roles I have in life. I am a bilingual(English & Tagalog) and skilled with Javascript, React, but recently learned C#, Typescript and Jest.
About Me:
Hello, my name is Ellaine Tolentino. My pronouns are She/They. I am a first-generation Filipino and a member of the LGBTQIA+ community who enjoys the arts and music. In 2009, I began fiddling with the themes of my Friendster and MySpace profiles, which led to my first encounter to software development. I had no idea I was working with HTML and CSS at the time, but I had so much fun with it that I also experimented with putting music and movies on my page!
I am now a coding bootcamp graduate with a degree in Interior Design and a hospitality background. I consider myself a full-stack developer, but front-end programming is my absolute fave! I'm looking forward to developing new and exciting products/projects that will benefit the community. In June of 2022, I completed a fully-remote apprenticeship program with Microsoft Leap, working with the amazing developers in the Redmond, WA office. Now, I am transitioning to be one of their full-time Software Engineer!
Here is my tech stack as of the moment:
Experience
Software Engineer Apprentice
- Applied engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and creative engineering.
- Learned new technical procedures quickly and integrated them into the work processes.
- Collaborated but also worked independently to solve problems and created technological solutions using internal/industry best practices.
- Demonstrated time management skill and completed software projects in a cooperative team environment.
Projects
HoroscopeGen | Github
Powered by React, provides the user their general horoscope advice for the week and their lucky color.
Sucia Charters | Instagram
Fully redesigned charter boat tour business website from an HTML, CSS, JS into a React App. Updated everything from photos displayed, verbiages and company logo. Company based from Seattle,WA.
Makegotchi | Github
A React, one-player, virtual pet game that enables the user to adopt from a selection of Tamagotchis (virtual pet) and interact with them by feeding, cleaning, tucking them into bed. A collaboration project with 3 other software developers from Flatiron School.
SplashGlam | Github
A React-powered, e-commerce skincare app using Soko Glam product data. The app also has a bookmarking & theme toggling feature for the users.
FootballFanatic | Github
A CLI app that displays events or football games that can be found through city name, date, team/performer name or stadium name using the TicketMaster API.
Blogs
I do also maintain a blog! Here are my few recent ones!
Hello! Since Christmas is coming up, and most of us have made some friends being in the great...
Hi! This blog is just to show recent backdrop-filters I've used! I am no expert but this is just me...
For this weeks’ CSS learning, I recently got to try and play around with gradients! This curiosity...
Another week of learning something new! In this blog I am going to share with you how to make frosted...
