Elisha Kutnick

Bachelor's

Political Science

Personal Projects

software Engineer

• Dancey+ • Fullstack streaming application for dance content, built using React, Redux, Ruby, Rails, HTML5, CSS3 and AWS • Created a video streaming service frontend with custom-built carousels, HTML5 media components, and Flexbox-based styles • Implemented search tailored to dance content discovery with single-digit millisecond response times for nearly instant results • Architected a RESTful Rails API, built on a PostgresSQL database and integrated with Amazon S3 for efficient media storage • • Rainbow Rolls • Browser-based game that tests for color-blindness, built using JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 and LocalStorage • Authored game algorithm to dynamically increase difficulty of levels through randomized color selection and count of sushi • Created a library-less sushi game with ES6 JavaScript classes, HTML5 Scalable Vector Graphics, and CSS3 styles • Implemented JavaScript event-based publish/subscribe system to enable communication between various modules of the game • • ReBond • A fullstack application to facilitate meetups between already-established groups of people, built using Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Mongoose.js, React, SCSS, Materialize • Created RESTful Node/Express/MongoDB API service for group, interest, and event management • Defined all schemas and API responses in collaboration with frontend teammates to parallelize development and increase velocity • Implemented JSON web token-based user authentication and middleware to encrypt user details and identify user requests • Utilized Mongoose ODM to validate data mutations against schema-based model and efficiently map queries to JSON responses