EJ Willard
Frontend Engineer
Hey! I'm EJ, and I'm a creative frontend engineer who uses the pronouns she/her/hers. I am currently based in Sydney (on Gadigal & Wangal land), and am working as a Frontend Engineer at Jaxsta.
I first became interested in web development after attending a one-day workshop on HTML & CSS basics at General Assembly in 2016. From the minute I saw the magic that a little HTML and CSS could create in a browser, I was hooked!
In June 2018, I mustered the courage to quit my legal career, and enrolled in General Assembly's immersive course in Software Engineering. Coding continues to thrill me as much as it did when I first started, and I learn new things every day.
When I'm not coding, you'll find me listening to records, learning Japanese (日本語を勉強しています！ 日本が好きです。), reading true crime, listening to true crime podcasts, or watching true crime documentaries (that's a lot of true crime, I know...but I swear it's a healthy interest and I'm a very normal person).
My Work
Jaxsta
Jaxsta is a massive database of officially sourced music credits and latest music news that aims to give credit where credit is due. I have been working on the Frontend and in the Database to deliver new features and improve our data.
Tech Stack
- Ember.js ||
- Third party APIs ||
- PostgreSQL ||
- PostCSS ||
- AWS ||
- Drupal
Green Slip Checker (SIRA)
This is a price comparison tool comissioned by the State Insurance Regulatory Authority. I worked on integrating three new 3rd party API endpoints into this exisitng project.
Tech Stack
- JavaScript ||
- Third party APIs ||
- SCSS ||
- Squiz Matrix (CMS)
Wollongong City Council
This was a website overall of the Wollongong City Council's existing site. This was the very first commercial site I ever worked on and it was incredibly exciting to take the design team's ideas and bring them to life.
Tech Stack
- JavaScript ||
- SCSS ||
- Squiz Matrix (CMS)
Audiophiles Vinyl Database
Audiophiles is the place YOUR music lives! Designed so you can keep track of your favourite records and musicians. Create an account and add vinyls to your collection!
Audiophiles was built in 5 days and is the second project I completed during my bootcamp at General Assembly. I have a pretty extensive collection and wanted to develop an app to keep track of them all.
Tech Stack
- CSS ||
- jQuery ||
- Ruby on Rails ||
- PostgreSQL
Dating App for Web Developers.
On //TODO: Meet You is a dating app for web developers that we built in 5 days as part of a group project at GA. Developers can create an account and profile after they pass a basic code test.
Once developers have an account they are able to browse other members, 'like' them and chat with them. ♥
Tech Stack
- SassCSS ||
- Ruby on Rails ||
- JavaScript ||
- PostgreSQL ||
- APIs & Gems: Google Maps API/Geocoder Gem, Open Trivia API & Zodiac Gem, Cloudinary