Kyle Mallette

Building a modern application really means building a distributed system composed of a responsive component based client-side, native mobile apps for the major platforms, and a backend with API endpoints and dev ops related monitoring capability. It's a lot of tech and a challenge to keep up with, but also very exciting! I have a very unique set of skills and background and a huge internal drive that motivate me to take on projects of this scope from start to finish. After finishing my Infantry career, I wanted to start a new chapter. I started that journey first at Texas Tech while learning to code through Stanford and MIT's free online courses. My first development project was LiftPro, an Android fitness tracking application which managed to break through 100,000 downloads. In addition to learning my first language, Java and the Android SDK, I cultivated a decent set of Photoshop skills which allowed me to design and implement the LiftPro graphics, theme and branding. I'm a major proponent of the open-source community and have published a few open source libraries as well as contributing answers to StackOverflow. Feel free to peruse my github and SO profiles as well as my blog posts for more. After getting LiftPro to a stable point. I began learning Ruby and the Ruby on Rails framework which I put to use in contract work as well as in building the backend and API for Billmates. Most recently, I've learned Dart and the Angular.Dart framework which I'm using to build the Billmates front-end. I'm excited about the new Web Component Standards, Google's Polymer project, and Mozilla's similar X-tags project. I'm not a fan of Javascript, but I have enough experience with it through personal projects and contracts to be comfortable enough to use it, Grunt, and/or Gulp as well as Bower when I must. Along with the usual suspects, (Git, CSS, HTML, Sass), I also use Bootstrap and Foundation regularly.