Joseph Rydel

Java developer
Saint Charles, MO

Summary

Highly skilled Java Developer with expertise in Spring Boot, REST APIs, and full-stack development. Proficient in Angular, React, MySQL, and cloud technologies, with hands-on experience in Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS. Developed a social media platform similar to Twitter as a capstone project, implementing JWT authentication, hashtag-based search, and interactive user engagement features. Additional experience includes building RESTful APIs, automating data analytics, and database management. Strong problem-solving skills with a background in data-driven decision-making and automation. Open to opportunities in full-stack development, backend engineering, and cloud-based applications.

Professional Experience

Grocery Sales Expert
Target
03/2020 – 04/2024

● Executed sales strategies in collaboration with my manager, which boosted sales and lead other stores by 10%

● Implemented thorough inventory management and audits with data-

Assistant Language Teacher
Freelancer - Japan
04/2017 – 12/2019

Project Experience

Cogent University
Capstone Project: Social Media Platform
Feb 2024 – May 2024
  • The platform functions alike Twitter, allowing users to create accounts, hashtags, and search posts by utilizing these
  • hashtags
  • Integrated JWT token-based authentication, empowering users to post messages and view all posts from their
  • account securely
  • Additionally, users can engage with others' posts by viewing, commenting, and replying, with validations in place.
  • Furthermore, users have the ability to generate hashtags and search posts using them

Environment: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, Java, SpringBoot, JPA, Microservices, MySQL, Docker, Maven, GIT and GITHUB

Café API Database
Café API Database

● A RESTful API database that returns JSONs of café information which was developed with Python and Flask.

● The JSON information contains information such as coffee price, ratings of WIFI strength, and number of seats.

● Users are able to update the coffee prices and make post requests to add new cafes to the database

Automated Rent Research
Automated Rent Research

● An automated data analytics application built with Python programming and web interaction tool, Selenium.

● Performs data migration of San Francisco apartment data from an apartment rental website with one click

● Once the information is processed, each datapoint is entered into a Google form to make into a spreadsheet

Technical Skills

Back-end Technologies
:
Java SE, JDBC, MySQL, Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring REST, Spring JPA, Spring Security, C++
Front-end Technologies
:
HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, ECMAScript, TypeScript, Angular, React, Python, Front-end debugging and developer tool
Cloud and others Technology:
:
JUnit, SDLC, GIT, AWS, Agile methodology, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Jenkins, Microservices

Certifications

Cogent Certified Java Developer.
2024

Education

Cogent University
Cogent University.
2024
Webster University
B.S. in Computer Science
05/2023
Webster University
B.A. in Audio Production
05/2015

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