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Hello, I'm Krista Loven.

I'm an impact-driven professional, passionate about driving positive change to my organization and the world. As a fullstack software engineer, I am JavaScript and Ruby focused, with an aptitude for learning new technologies. Have a problem you're working on? Connect with me, I'd love to help you solve it.

Previously, I helped veterans figure out what to do in their post-military career through American Corporate Partners, I planned public events for Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, and I started my career building a youth camp at a horse barn. I'm adventurous, experimental, and curious to find new solutions for old problems. I hold a Bachelor's degree from NYU, and am conversational in Spanish.

Projects

Telephone
JavaScript | React Native | Expo | Native Base | Ruby on Rails | S3
Entertaining party game application which applies drawing to the childhood classic
Chat
JavaScript | React | Bootstrap | Ruby on Rails | ActionCable
Topic based group chat application built with sockets
Crazy Eights
Ruby | Active Record | SQLite | Deck Of Cards API | Colorize
CLI implementation of the card game, built with a computer AI opponent

Blog Posts

Crazy Little Thing Called Redux
Crazy Little Thing Called Redux
🎵This thing called Redux, at first I couldn’t handle it 🎵
Coding Chindogu
Coding Chindogu
Imagine you have just been served a delicious bowl of shyou soba ramen, as you enjoy your highly coveted and hard to obtain seat at Tsuta.
Re Re Re Recursion
Re Re Re Recursion
If you are trying to wrap your mind around recursion, perhaps this painting of a swan might help.
DIY Queue: How to Write Your Own Queue Class
DIY Queue: How to Write Your Own Queue Class
Let’s step back to a simpler time, when a line was a line, and if I was the first person in line, then gosh darnit, I was the first person served. That, my friend, is a queue.
Vectors: How an Array Doesn’t Run Out of Space
Vectors: How an Array Doesn’t Run Out of Space
When you make an array in JavaScript, you don't have to specify how much space in memory you need. Why?
Confessions of a Software Engineer
Confessions of a Software Engineer
When I was first learning to code, I did something you are not supposed to do. BUT I now know what the case equality operator is...

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