A modern, mobile-first website providing reviews for restaurants in the DC area, and opinion articles.
The website focuses on usability, and a fresh modern look which looks equally stunning in both a traditional desktop browser experience, and a mobile phone.
Built using the excellent GatsbyJS framework, on AWS Amplify, the website is extremely easy to extend, maintain, and deploy.
Phone Reveal
Perform reverse phone number lookups to figure out who is calling you! Provide a phone number, and receive a name, as simple as that.
Ever forget the name of the person you met last night at the bar? Want to identify when Domino's pizza is calling you versus a spammer? Problem solved. Do a reverse phone lookup and reveal their identity!
Numbers can be manually entered, or interpreted live as a call is incoming so you can ignore those pesky scammers.
Lookup works for cell phones, and land lines. Accuracy may vary as not all information is publicly available. Individuals very often show up as their full name, or nick name, while scammers and businesses will show up as something that is clearly not an individual.
No account required, ever, completely free to use, forever.
Potato Detective
As the lead detective, you must use your wits, brains, and reflexes to decide if you're looking at a Potato, or something else in a split second! Rise through the ranks as a skilled Potato Detective and impress your friends!
This reflex-based game demands patience and practice. Can you handle it? Do you have what it takes to spot the Potato?
FEATURES
Spot a potato in increasingly difficult situations
Unlock newer and harder levels as your reflexes improve
Earn badges as you reach new achievements that you can show off to your friends
Keep track of your high scores over time
Become the best Potato Detective in the world!
Potato Detective was sunset in 2021 and is no longer available on the app store or play store.
Poo Pays
There's 2 things everybody has in common: Poop and Work
Track how much your employer is losing to pay you to poop at work! In addition to time spent and money earned, run interesting trends to analyze your poop at work habits such as day of week, time of day, or season.
We won't take any responsibility if you're fired while trying to reach your personal "high score" in the bathroom.
Feature Summary:
See how much you get paid to poop at work
Runs in the background so you can still browse the web
Track longest, shortest, and average time spent in the bathroom
Analyze your poop habits by several different metrics
Share your poops on Twitter, or through SMS to brag to your friends
Industry Experience
Daniel has a BSE in Computer Science, and 8+ years of professional experience as a full time Software Engineer. Over the past 4 years Daniel has been in tech leadership roles mentoring newer Software Engineers, designing the company's architecture, and leading projects in addition to continuing his normal software development responsibilities.
Most of his expertise is developing backend services utilizing Java, but he also has experience developing attractive front ends mainly utilizing GatsbyJS and React.
Daniel is a huge advocate of AWS, due to its low cost, functionality, and performance. In addition to using it professionally, most of his personal projects utilize AWS for its infrastructure. Complex apps and websites can be run cheaply, and automatically scale up and down depending on demand.
PROJECT EXPERTISE
Cross-platform Mobile Apps using Flutter/Dart
Rich backend API's to fuel more complex mobile apps and websites, built in Java, running in AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Beautiful simplistic frontends built in GatsbyJS (Ironically this portfolio website was built before he learned GatsbyJS. Go check out Bottomless Bros!)
TECH EXPERTISE
Java/Spring
Ruby/Rails
Python/Flask/FastAPI
Flutter/Dart
Native Android (Java)
NoSQL & Relational Databases
GatsbyJS
3rd party integrations inlcuding Google Cloud, Twilio, and others.
