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Parker Byers

Neuroscience Researcher & Software Engineer

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About Me

Neuroscience researcher turned software engineer. Detail-oriented worker with hands-on experience in research/laboratory techniques and utilizing the MERN stack. Passionate about making the lives of others easier through research breakthoughs and user-friendly applications. Seeking remote employment as an entry-level hire in any relevant field.

Coding Skills


Research Skills

Experience

SchoolMint

July 2022 - April 2023

Software Engineer

Modify existing application functionality or add novel functionalities per client requirements.

Rapidly and efficiently address bugs and other show stoppers.

Implement third-party API integration as needed.

Suggest procedural changes that increased average sprint target burndown by 20%.

Suggest improvements to increase efficiency, readability, and maintainability of code.

Manage major deployments and take lead addressing any issues.

Application customization and maintenance was performed on current and legacy products that use React, Laravel, and MySQL.

LSU Health Sciences Center

March 2022 - August 2022

Research Associate

Perform statistical, qualitative, and quantitative data analysis.

Interpret and present findings to lead investigators with intuitive tables, graphs, and diagrams.

Education

General Assembly

August 2022 - November 2022

Software Engineering Immersive Program

12-week, 500+ hour training program focused in Git/Github, Javascript, Node, Python, Express, React, Django, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, HTML, and CSS.

Vanderbilt University

August 2017 - May 2021

Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience

Studied human nervous system and behaviour. History doing research in the field provided experience performing statistical analysis of data and interpretation and presentation of results.

Projects

Tournament Organizer Assistant

Utilized MEVN stack, Heroku, and Bulma to deploy an app for tournament organization, discovery, and registration. Users can create and register for events and can view the brackets. A RESTful API was also deployed for the app to use as its backend.

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Ventilation System Anonymous

Utilized MERN stack, Heroku, and Bootstrap to deploy an app for anonymous posts that users can interact with and comment on. A RESTful API was also deployed for the app to use as its backend.

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EFT Assistant

Utilized React, Heroku, and public APIs to create an encyclopedia for information about a video game.

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Tower of Hanoi

Utilized Javascript, HTML, and CSS to recreate the classic puzzle, tower of hanoi.

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