kazvee

👩‍💻 Welcome to my GitHub profile!

Hi, I'm Karen! 🙂

Based in Canada, I'm an experienced IT professional with a background in software development, technical writing, and customer-focused tech support.
When I'm not at the keyboard, I like to travel, explore international cuisine, and spend time outdoors hiking and birdwatching. 🐦

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📚 My Projects

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🍛 Provisioning

✨ Live Demo
🍲 Online recipe collection for easy lookup and seamless sharing
📑 Features category and tag browsing, quick search, and eye-catching image carousel
⚙️ Tools Used: React, Docusaurus, Lunr Search, Markdown
📅 Built in: January 2025

🪶 ezReply

👩‍💻 Streamlines customer support with dynamic, pre-written answers to common queries
✅ Features a built-in copy button for quick responses
⚙️ Tools Used: Python, Flask, HTML, CSS, Virtual Environment
📅 Built in: November 2024

ezReply_Demo_Video.mp4

🕵️‍♀️ Follow Check

👩‍💼 Web app for managing GitHub following relationships
⚙️ Tools Used: JavaScript, Node.js, Express, Axios, Dotenv, HTML, CSS
📅 Built in: November 2024

📅 Coffee Calendar Events Scheduler

☕ Java console application that generates a schedule of upcoming events based on user input
🗝️ Features input validation
⚙️ Tools Used: Java, CLI (Command Line Interface)
📅 Built in: October 2024

Coffee_Calendar_Events_Scheduler_Demo_Video.mp4

🐍 Snake Bytes Dinner Planner

✨ Live Demo
🍛 A revamped Python dinner planner built as a frontend app with Flask
✅ Includes user input validation and eye-catching graphics promoting healthy eating
⚙️ Tools Used: Python, Flask, Virtual Environment
📅 Built in: September 2024

Snake_Bytes_Demo_Video.mp4

💻 Console-based Dinner Planner

🍽️ Python console application that generates a weekly meal plan based on user input
🗝️ Features input validation and user-friendly `Quit and Restart` option
⚙️ Tools Used: Python, CLI (Command Line Interface)
📅 Built in: August 2024

Snake_Bytes_Console_Demo_Video.mp4

Bestie Squad 🐰

✨ Live Demo
😻 Redux application that enables users to create and manage their list of friends
🗝️ Features key Redux concepts such as Reducers, Actions, and the Store structure ⚙️ Tools Used: Redux (Reducers, Actions, Store), JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, Yarn, GitHub Pagesbr> 📅 Built in: March 2024

Bestie_Squad_Demo_Video.mp4

Meme Maker 🖼️

🖼️ Meme generator enabling users to create custom memes
🏫 Explores advanced concepts such as API interaction and handling asynchronous actions
⚙️ Tools Used: Redux (Reducers, Actions, Store), JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, Thunk, API, Bootstrap
📅 Built in: March 2024

Meme_Maker_Demo_Video.mp4

My Portfolio 👩‍💻

✨ Live Demo
👩‍💻 My web developer portfolio
⚙️ Tools Used: Next.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, HTML, CSS, Tailwind CSS
📅 Built in: January 2024

Snow_Portfolio_Video.mp4

PawTrackr 🐾

✨ Live Demo
🐾 Final Group Project - Full Stack Pet Care Management App
😺 Schedule feeding times
🐶 Create exercise reminders
🧑‍⚕️ Handle Vet appointments
🤩 Features: Calendar, Drag & Drop, Pagination
⚙️ Tools Used: React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Node.js, Express, Axios, Bootstrap, PostgreSQL, Netlify
📅 Built in: December 2023

PawTrackr_Demo_Video.mp4

Jungle 🪴

🌿 Full-stack e-commerce app
🔴 Ruby on 🚃 Rails 6.1
👢 Bootstrap frontend
📚 PostgreSQL database
🔒 Bcrypt password management
💸 Stripe for secure payments
🧪 Rspec & Cypress automated testing
⚙️ Tools Used: Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, SCSS, ERB (Embedded Ruby), MVC (Model-View-Controller) Architecture, Active Record ORM (Object-Relational Mapping), Bootstrap, PostgreSQL, Bcrypt, Stripe, RSpec, Cypress
📅 Built in: November 2023

Jungle_Demo_Video.mp4

Scheduler 📅

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Full-stack appointment booking app enabling students & mentors to meet
🧪 Built using TDD (Test Driven Development) using Jest & Cypress
🔁 Implements CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment/Delivery) practices with built-in automated testing capabilities
⚙️ Tools Used: React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Node.js, Axios, Dotenv, Cypress, Jest, TDD (Test Driven Development), SPA (Single Page Application), Railway, CircleCI (CI/CD), Netlify 📅 Built in: October 2023

Interview_Scheduler_Demo_Video.mp4

PhotoLabs 🖼️

🖼️ Stock photo single page app built as a Single Page Application (SPA) in React
🏢 Leverages a pre-existing to invite customers to view and interact with photos held in the database
⚙️ Tools Used: React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Express, PostgreSQL, API, Babel, Dotenv, SPA (Single Page Application)
📅 Built in: September 2023

PhotoLabs_Video.webm

TwO-O-Player Math Game 🧮

🧮 Two player math game which runs in the terminal
🔴 Built with Ruby using OOP (Object Oriented Programming) principles
📺 Includes a TV Infomercial style ReadMe, just for fun!
⚙️ Tools Used: Ruby, OOP (Object Oriented Programming), CLI (Command Line Interface)
📅 Built in: October 2023

Game_Demo_Video.mp4

Tweeter 🐣

🐦 Single-page social media app which delivers a seamless user experience
✨ Features a responsive design for various device sizes
🧮 Real-time tweet length counter
🔄️ Content validation prevents empty posts
⚙️ Tools Used: JavaScript, Node.js, Express, HTML, CSS, SASS, jQuery, AJAX, SPA (Single Page Application)
📅 Built in: July 2023

tweeter-functionality-demo-video.mp4

Resource Wall 📚

🤝 Midterm Group Project - Resource sharing site
🖼️ Enables users to save & share internet links, blogs, or videos
⚙️ Tools Used: JavaScript, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, EJS (Embedded JavaScript),HTML, CSS, SASS
📅 Built in: September 2023

LightBnB 🏡

🏨 Multi-page property booking app
🏘️ Enables a cross-platform experience for property owners and short-term holiday rental customers
⚙️ Tools Used: JavaScript, NodeJS, Express, PostgreSQL, SASS, Bcrypt, Cookie-Session, Nodemon, Dotenv
📅 Built in: August 2023

TinyApp 🌎

🔗 Full stack web application that allows users to shorten long URLs
🧪 Leverages Unit Testing
⚙️ Tools Used: JavaScript, NodeJS, Express, EJS, Nodemon, Bcryptjs, Cookie-Session, Mocha, Chai
📅 Built in: July 2023

Snake Game 🐍

🐍 Multiplayer take on the very popular Snake Game
🔴 Move the snake over the red dots to eat them and grow looooonger!
🕹 Careful not to crash or it's Game Over! 😢
⚙️ Tools Used: NodeJS, NPM
📅 Built in: July 2023

Recipe Rank 🍛

✨ Live Demo
🍲 A recipe sharing site that allows visitors to vote on the links submitted
⚙️ Tools Used: React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Supabase, GitHub Pages, Netlify
📅 Built in: April 2023

Demo_Video.mp4

Monkey Duck Game 🐒🦆

🤩 Live Demo
🍌 Cute browser game
🐒 Ask the monkeys to shuffle colourful emojis
🦆 Get some ducks in a row, and WIN!
⚙️ Tools Used: React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, GitHub Pages, Surge, SPA (Single Page Application)
📅 Built in: October 2023

Monkey_Duck_Game_Demo_Video.mp4

🟣 Fancy Buttons

🟣 App that showcases dynamic styling and interactive buttons
😡 Angry Button
🔢 Counter Button
💡 Light Switch Button
🔁 Text Repeater Button
⚙️ Tools Used: React
📅 Built in: September 2023

button-functionality-video.mp4

Hello React 🩷

🩷 Small project to reinforce understanding of fundamental concepts
🚁 Passing props with JSX Handling
🌃 DOM events
🪝 Managing state with the useState hook
🖼️ Conditional rendering
🎛️ Creating controlled input components
⚙️ Tools Used: React
📅 Built in: September 2023

Hello_React_Demo_Video.mp4

Tourney Matches 🕹️

🏒 App to practice passing down props to children elements
🐣 Refine understanding of `props.children`
🏗️ Additional practice playing with data structures
⚙️ Tools Used: React
📅 Built in: June 2023

World Times 🕰️

⌚ Custom-built World Clock for one customer, displaying local time for their requested cities
⚙️ Tools Used: JavaScript, Vite, Pico CSS, Luxon library
📅 Built in: March 2023

Currency Xchange 💸

💰 Currency converter widget
🏦 Implements usage of local storage to cache API data
⚙️ Tools Used: JavaScript, NodeJS, Express, Axios, Nodemon, CORS, Dotenv
📅 Built in: April 2023

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