Hello! I'm
Danielle Riedel

About Me

I'm Danielle and I'm a Developer

I earned my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the end of 2020 from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, but I've been a tech afficianado for as long as I can remember. I love figuring out and applying new technologies, so many of my personal projects reflect that full stack/end-to-end mindset. When I'm not coding I'm playing obscure PC games and making small batch mead.

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My Projects

M:TG Card Rater

A web app for rating and reviewing Magic: The Gathering cards. React front end, Node.js server, and MySql as a database for cards, users, and comments. To avoid storing card art for > 10k entries, I decided to make use of Wizards of the Coast's UniverseID and API to grab the image as needed. Pagination was necessary, as initial load times were roughly ~17 seconds! I managed to bring it down to ~3 seconds post-implementation.
PongYourself

An Arduino class project. I wanted to do something more complex than required, so I found a small OLED screen and a controller peripheral with two x/y axis joysticks to make a two player pong game. However, the controller was smaller than expected, so the project became single player pong where the player controls both paddles. I even made a custom bitmap array for the title screen graphic after digging into the driver examples for the Adafruit library!
NoteApp

A simple C# Winform app with CRUD functionality for a short notes table in MySql. Started as a hands on C#/.NET learning experience with the idea of building in more features, but WinForm feels a little dated to invest too much time into, even if it is user friendly and simple.

My Skills

Skills from formal education and personal pursuits.

I started coding in C++, specifically due to the idea that if you can figure out pointers, references, and memory management, you'd be capable of most OOP languages. So far that's proven true, everything else seems easier by comparison! With the exception of C of course. Javascript, HTML, CSS and JQuery came into play with my web development classes, and when I got a handle on syntax I moved into Node.js for the server scripting and web API portions of a few projects and React.js as a front end. I've worked with a few different databases; MongoDB, Firebase, and MySql. I'm currently investing more time into learning C# and ASP.NET Core, along with exploring AWS beyond hosting this static site.

C++ 3 Years
Javascript 2 Years
C# 1 Year

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Danielle Riedel
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Arvada, CO
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