About Me

Hi, my name's Lucas. I'm a self-proclaimed math-nerd, jazz trombonist, and ultimate frisbee enthusiast.

I was first exposed to programming in college while pursuing a math degree and I immediately took to it. I love math, patterns, logic, puzzles, and problem solving, and I found elements of all these things in programming.

I continued to explore the tech world by pursuing a certification in Data Science through John's Hopkins University while working other jobs. I loved this fusion of statistics and computing.

Finally, I enrolled in the Nashville Software School to gain the skills I needed for employment as a software developer. I learned the craft of software development and have loved every minute of it!

Projects

Spotify Playlist Manager

Deployed on Google Play. Android app built to allow users to reorder, delete, and add songs to existing Spotify playlists. Built using Ionic framework. Used Angular Spotify for simplifying http calls, Cordova OAuth for dealing with tokens, and Grunt for ES6 compiling.

Github Google Play

Robot Battledome

Robot Battledome is a simple game where you can fight robots. Built using jQuery and Bootstrap libraries. Uses prototypal inheritance to create robot classes.

Github Deployed

Yelp Dataset Analysis

Used data science techniques to analyze publicly available Yelp data and answer questions about modern day establishments that host live jazz music. Followed principles of reproducible research to create writeup that shows all steps involved and relevant code. Used RStudio with knitR and ggplot2 packages.

Github Hosted pdf

Data Explorer

Data visualization web app for use by statisticians, data analysts, etc. Allows user to upload data, filter, sort, and order variables in grid. They can make graphs and export them as images. Angular, Node, Express, and PostgreSQL. Bookshelf ORM. Ui-grid and angular-fusioncharts libraries.

Github