Monica Olinescu
Mentor
(30 reviews)
US$20.00
For every 15 mins
49
Sessions/Jobs
ABOUT ME
Senior Software Developer & Teacher
Senior Software Developer & Teacher
A web developer with a passion for teaching. Senior Instructor at Lighthouse Labs. You can see my past projects here: http://mochromatic.com.
I studied Computer Science at the University of Toronto and have been working as a professional programmer since 2005. My main technologies are Ruby/Rails, Elixir / Phoenix and JavaScript/React/Node. I also grow orchids. :)
English
Pacific Time (US & Canada) (-07:00)
Joined November 2016
EXPERTISE
11 years experience
Ruby was the first programming language I worked with professionally. I have a good working knowledge of ruby and I have used it to build...
Ruby was the first programming language I worked with professionally. I have a good working knowledge of ruby and I have used it to build many Rails applications over the years.
9 years experience | 6 endorsements
I have been using JavaScript since I started my career as a professional web developer. In the early years, my understanding of javascrip...
I have been using JavaScript since I started my career as a professional web developer. In the early years, my understanding of javascript was quite limited, because I was mostly using it to do small modifications to web UIs with jQuery.
Since I started working with client-side frameworks in 2011, I have gained a deeper understanding of JavaScript.
Today I use JavaScript to write React and Node applications.
1 year experience
I have a year and half of experience with this beautiful programming language, building a real-time feedback tool for graphic designers.
...
I have a year and half of experience with this beautiful programming language, building a real-time feedback tool for graphic designers.
My biggest accomplishment with elixir was a small contribution to the swoosh library (used for sending email). https://github.com/swoosh/swoosh/graphs/contributors
I also love solving Advent of Code problems in Elixir. :)
11 years experience | 2 endorsements
Ruby on Rails is the platform I have the most experience in. I have been using Rails since version 2 and I like how quickly one can build...
Ruby on Rails is the platform I have the most experience in. I have been using Rails since version 2 and I like how quickly one can build prototypes and certain kinds of applications in Rails. It's not a tool for every job, but it it's a good general-purpose web framework, in my opinion.
1 year experience
I have built a Websockets / HTTP JSON API backend for a real-time application. I have a good understand of how Channels work and how to u...
I have built a Websockets / HTTP JSON API backend for a real-time application. I have a good understand of how Channels work and how to use Ecto. I have written tests with ExUnit and acceptance tests with Hound.
4 years experience
5 years experience | 3 endorsements
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(30 reviews)
Jesse Akozbek
December 2020
Fantastic conversation that gave me good direction on what path to take to continue my web development development journey!
Russ Anderson
December 2020
Great work from Monica on this job. Helpful from beginning to end and really understood what we wanted to achieve. Would definitely recommend. A+++
Ben
December 2020
Monica helped me with debugging and getting one step closer to solving my complicated auth issue
David Harris
December 2020
Excellent! Incredibly helpful and informative! Will definitely use her in the future!
Bal Jassal
November 2020
awesome! I highly recommend Monica as a mentor!
Russ Anderson
November 2020
Really great coder and so helpful along the way. We changed some of the job spec and Monica understood and did a great job!
Monica has also answered all our questions and helped us to implement the code even after the project finished.
I would highly recommend and definitely look to hire Monica in the future. A+++
John Lee
October 2020
Monica is really good developer and teacher.
I learned a lot during the session.
It was very easy to follow step by step :)
Ryan Small
October 2020
phenomenal
John Lee
October 2020
Monica was very helpful,
She spotted the problem area right away and fixed it with kind explanation.
Thank you very much :)
Liz Bayardelle
March 2017
Monica was incredibly patient and absolutely awesome. She helped me solve my additional issue as well as another problem I'd been having!
SOCIAL PRESENCE
angular-uuid4
Angular service that generates UUIDs/GUIDs
JavaScript
67
6
zip-code-info
Returns the state and city of the Sectional Center Facility for a given zip code.
Ruby
14
1
EMPLOYMENTS
Senior Software Engineer
Mochromatic Inc.
2011-01-01-Present
As a self-employed software development contractor, I am building web and mobile web applications for companies large and small. I am abl...
As a self-employed software development contractor, I am building web and mobile web applications for companies large and small. I am able to join a team or work independently on a project using the following technologies: Elixir/Phoenix, JavaScript/TypeScript/node.js, Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, Postgres, MySQL, Docker. My goal is to build high quality software on time and on budget and to this end I like to pay special attention to gathering requirements well and where necessary writing automated tests.
Ruby on Rails
Node.js
React
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Ruby on Rails
Node.js
React
Elixir
Phoenix
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Lead Developer
Animikii Inc.
2017-05-01-2020-03-01
Animikii is an Indigenous digital agency, based out of Victoria, BC. As part of my work at Animikii, I was the lead developer on the San'...
Animikii is an Indigenous digital agency, based out of Victoria, BC. As part of my work at Animikii, I was the lead developer on the San'yas online training project, which is run by the BC government's Provincial Health Services Authority. It is a large software project that was started in 2009 and powers the online courses offered to health care providers, people working in the legal system, civil servants and many others across Canada. As a Lead Developer I was responsible for setting up the software development process, including a CI pipeline, gathering requirements from the client and implementing new features on the platform.
Ruby on Rails
MySQL
Testing
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Ruby on Rails
MySQL
Testing
Elasticsearch
Continuous Integration
Docker
React
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Founder, Software Developer
DesignDrop
2016-01-01-2017-09-01
DesignDrop is a visual feedback tool for web and graphic designers. Designers can share their work via short URL and receive feedback fro...
DesignDrop is a visual feedback tool for web and graphic designers. Designers can share their work via short URL and receive feedback from clients and colleagues on one page.
PostgreSQL
Unit Testing
Integration Testing
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PostgreSQL
Unit Testing
Integration Testing
React
Elixir
DigitalOcean
Phoenix
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PROJECTS
My Portfolio SiteView Project
2020
Please see this page for a list of my past projects.
Please see this page for a list of my past projects.
Ruby on Rails
Node.js
React
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Ruby on Rails
Node.js
React
Elixir
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