Avram Eisner

I built an Amazon Alexa skill for Nestlé that lets users browse through and follow recipes with their voice. It also has an accompanying website that can be loaded and updated based on the voice commands given to Alexa. Users can browse recipes, navigate through a recipe's directions, and watch instructive videos all using their voice, so their hands are free to work in the kitchen.

This project was built for Global Good, a sub-organization within Intellectual Ventures. They needed a better method of monitoring the temperature fluctuations of vaccine refrigerators in various African countries.

The web app was built in React and Redux and uses MapBox for displaying a map of the country. The user can zoom in and out of the map to see average temperature fluctuations layered over the different states and regions. Temperature data is also provided in a table and a chart to show changes over time.

I was responsible for creating a new web app for the operations team at Flexe, an online marketplace for warehouse space. The current system was built in Ruby on Rails and consisted of a dozen or more different pages that were automatically generated from database tables. Creating new warehouse reservations with the old process was slow, tedious, and error-prone.

I created the new web app using React on the front end, and Node.js/Express.js on the back end. The Express.js app would act as a middle layer between the front end and the Ruby on Rails app. I also wrote new API endpoints in the Ruby on Rails app that returned JSON for the middle layer.