Tina Holly

A local tattoo shop in Canada hired me as their tech lead and primary developer for a new mobile app project. The app is geared towards tattoo artists and other body modification service providers (piercers, brow artists, scalp micro-pigmentation artists, etc.) The goal of the app is to help service providers and clients find each other. Their in-house designer designed the app, and my role was technical leadership and full-stack development on the back end (Ruby on Rails), the website, and Android.

A luxury body jewelry wholesale company that works directly with piercers approached me to develop an ear piercing jewelry curation tool that they can embed in their existing Shopify website in their existing mobile apps on Android and iOS. Body piercers would use the company's new ear curation tool with their clients to help them visualize what new jewelry can look like alongside their existing pieces.

One of the core team (under five-to-ten developers) who developed the Bitmoji mobile application for iOS, Android, Chrome, and Slack.

The front-end was built JavaScript using React, Angular, native Android (Java), native iOS (Swift, Objective-C), Apple Watch prototype, and iOS keyboard app extension.

The back-end development was done with Node.js using Express.js and Hapi.js, OAuth, MySQL, PostgreSQL. The back-end API development was done in Java using the Google AppEngine.

Test-driven development included unit tests (Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, Sinon, Chai, XCTests for iOS, JUnit for Android), integration tests (Python, Node.js), UI tests (Selenium, XCUITests for iOS, Espresso for Android).

Canned Replies is a Chrome extension and Android app that makes it quicker and easier to send the messages you send often. It integrates seamlessly with Gmail, the clipboard, and the user's context menu.

Initially just a productivity tool for myself, it turned into a product people use every day. Canned Replies currently has 6,000+ users on Chrome and hundreds on Android with an average rating of 4+ stars.

The project is live and currently under feature development.

I developed the front end with a small team for the ING Direct to Tangerine rebranding and website redesign project.

The new Tangerine website was the first bank website in Canada to be fully responsive. I also added accessible support for Internet Explorer 7 and a wide variety of mobile devices, including Windows, Android, BlackBerry, and Apple. In addition, I developed the Google Maps API.

I single-handedly developed the front-end of the Forward Thinking blog and content marketing platform, an AngularJS application that uses WordPress as a back-end API service. My proof of concept was compared with another Ember.js one, and we went with mine because my proof of concept was more complete.

I was the hired gun on a team of three front-end developers working on the Sheridan College redesign project. I did front-end development in HTML, CSS, jQuery, and JavaScript. I also handled the quick pixel-perfect design implementation of agency-provided designs.

A fully responsive, bilingual (French, English) CMS-powered website in ProcessWire to help Institut des Sciences Mathématiques (Institute of Science and Math), a higher-education client in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, manage the content on their website. Including but not limited to programs, courses, and blog items. It involved complex relationships between content types and taxonomies. The website is very quick and easy for the client to maintain.

I created the user interface design and handled the front-end development for an application that helps a staffing agency manage its candidates and clients. I also worked with the CakePHP MVC framework and handled the custom jQuery development.

The application features dynamic forms that animate form sections as needed. The forms were designed to be enjoyable and quick to fill out. They were also designed with the power user in mind, allowing tech-savvy staff to quickly fill out forms with keyboard-friendly input.