Hi, my name is Chase
I'm a Software Engineer.

Myself and a team of software engineers and ui/ux engineers were tasked to engineer an product saught to highlight conservation and sustainability. A pain point I and others who have volunteered for food kitchens before know the pain point of these food kitchens being able to secure a consistent source of donated food to serve. We designed an application meant as a b-to-b platform for food kitchens to be able to connect directly with local businesses and organizations with excess food willing to donate.

● Developed and designed a full-stack MERN, social application utilizing React.js on the front end and Express.js and database management with MongoDB on the back end.
● Cross-collaborative deliberation in the product planning phase of converting a problem to code and discussing our logic.
● Collaborated with a cross-functional team consisting of UX Engineers and Software Engineers.
● After having conducted client interviews, we drew up user stories and personas to engineer an optimal user experience based on client feedback.
● My team and I designed the application with pure CSS, Bootstrap, and Tailwind.
● System designed utilizing client requirements and components created based on the research.
● Worked under Agile Methodologies. ● Utilized production management tools Figma and Jira.

Having graduated from General Assembly, my fellow software engineers, UX designers, and I have become acutely familiar with a new pain point in our lives: keeping track of everything during our job searches. Keeping track of all of the applications and the resources to continue learning. My team of software engineers and UX designers seek to remedy this with a convenient, one-stop shop for your job hunt in Thriver.

● Collaborating with a large, cross-functional team consisting of software engineers, UX engineers, and industry experts from StitchFix and Accenture.
● Used Agile methodology to work in 6, weeklong sprints, prioritizing user stories each week curated from user research conducted by our UX designers, with daily standups, and closing with feedback in weekly retros.
● Utilizing production management tools: LucidChart, Figma, and Jira.
● Styled the application using Styled-Components and CSS3 with flexbox layouts.
● Conducted extensive user research over nearly 20 interviews to determine pain points of clients and how to best remedy them and communicated these data through an affinity map and user stories.
● Utilized the full MERN stack: MongoDB/Mongoose, Express, React.Js, and Node.Js to develop the application.

Not Shein is a mock e-commerce website meant to simulate a multipage marketplace with React, but also to reflect on the widely neglected impact of the fast fashion industry simulated here.

● Developed and designed a full-stack MERN application utilizing React and Express on the front end.
● Implemented databases with MongoDB, Mongoose and MongoDB Atlas.
● Researched intensively to create a comprehensive database unique to my project.
● Styled the application using Styled-Components, Bootstrap, and CSS3 with flexbox layouts.
● Deployed the application with Heroku.

SomeTrails is a hike planning utility inspired by AllTrails. We all know Alltrails, except its biggest short-coming has been realized and rectified today -- too many trails. So we did the work and scaled it down for you. Sometrails was a team effort from Chase Allman-Knieper, Aaron Lee, and Maggie Yu.

● Collaborated to create a full-stack web application utilizing Python and Django.
● Implemented databases with Postgresql and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
● Managed the GitHub Repository.
● Made API fetch calls to retrieve rich data from over 275 National Parks.
● Created application with a mobile-first approach and oversaw styling the application using Styled-Components, Materialize, and CSS3 with flexbox layouts.
● Deployed the application with Heroku.

I have combined two of my favorite hobbies into a collective passion project. I have built a simple, full-stack web application that utilizes full CRUD functionality: Creating, Reading, Updating, and Deleting data. The data in question? Data you can actually use to take a hike. If you're anything like me the past week having forgotten what outside is even like, you probably need it!

● Created a full-stack web application from the ground up.
● Made RESTful routes with Express, MongoDB, and Node.js on the backend handling all create, read, update, delete (CRUD) operations.
● Set up authorization and authentication for user-centric CRUD operations with Google OAuth.
● Utilized the GitHub API.
● Used Mongoose to define schemas for MongoDB collections.
● Implemented ES6 tagged template literals with Styled-Components, Bootstrap, and CSS3 to provide style and flex layout of the application.
● Deployed the application with Onrender.

A simple game of connect 4 built in native Javascript in a single-page application

● Implemented a single-page, front-end game.
● Used Git and GitHub for version control and GitPages for deployment.
● Implemented game logic with JavaScript.
● Styled and created the visual aspects using HTML5, and CSS3.
● Deployed the application with GitHub Pages.