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Griffin Zody Full Stack Web Dev
Career
Projects
Skills

Career

Full Stack Software Engineer

Instructure

May 2023 - Current

  • Managed complex AWS infrastructure serving over 2,000,000 users.
  • Produced a proof of concept AI generation tool using Amazon Bedrock.
  • Contributed to cross-team engineering projects using Ruby on Rails and React.
  • Trained and onboarded new team members, including a tech lead overseas.
  • Built a highly requested quizzing experience used over 400,000 times a day.

Software Engineer Intern

Instructure

May 2022 - Aug 2022

  • Worked on the Developer Experience Team to increase the efficiency of engineering workflows.
  • Saved hours of developer work by integrating internal tools with the Slack API.
  • Improved features of Canvas, a legacy code base and flagship product.

Pro Bono Scripting

Behind the Zion Curtain

Aug 2021 - Sept 2021

  • Worked with the manager of a local art theatre to identify pain points in their artist signup process.
  • Built a script to automate the process of transferring data from Google Forms to Google Docs, reducing eight hours of work to minutes.

Microsoft Technical Support

Education at Work

Sept 2019 - July 2020

  • Performed troubleshooting on clients’ Microsoft Office using remote assistance software.
  • Consistently hit top performance benchmarks on chats-per-hour and customer rating metrics.
  • Contributed to knowledge bases built for a small business pilot program.

Projects

U.S. Honey Bee History Site

Mongo, Express, React, Node, EC2, LightSail

  • Responsive MERN stack website that maps the change in honey bee colony populations across the United States from 1987 to 2020.
  • Originally hosted on EC2, migrated to Lightsail.
  • Utilizes data from the Department of Agriculture's NASS API.

Bumble Bops Bot

Python, Discord API

  • Discord bot that creates daily threads where users can post music suggestions.
  • Posts a custom rating scale within each thread for users to rate the suggestions.

Roll20 Web Scraper

Python, Selenium, BeautifulSoup4, Openpyxl

  • Python program that scrapes data from Roll20.net.
  • Uses Selenium to logs in as a player and compiles the results of their dice rolls.
  • Exports the data to an Excel sheet where it can be analyzed for statistical anomalies. (Such as rolling five critical failures in a single session).

Skills

Frameworks

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Ruby on Rails ⬢ ⬢ ⬢ ⬢ ⬡
Tailwind ⬢ ⬢ ⬢ ⬢ ⬡
Jest ⬢ ⬢ ⬢ ⬡ ⬡
Svelte ⬢ ⬢ ⬢ ⬡ ⬡
Redux ⬢ ⬢ ⬡ ⬡ ⬡

Languages

Javascript
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Ruby
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C#
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Java
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Python
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Typescript
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C
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C++
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Apps Script
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Tools

Copilot
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Git
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Jenkins
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AWS
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Datadog
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Docker
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Splunk
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Snowflake
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Terraform
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Databases

MongoDB
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MySQL
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Postgres
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Redis
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