Hello, World!
I'm Melissa Natividad from Oakland, California. Currently, I'm completing an apprenticeship as a Software Engineer Developer in Test at PlayStation.
My love for software development stems from playing games and customizing pages at a young age. Being creative, curious, and empathetic, I find joy in solving user-centered problems.
Technologies I'm familiar with:
| ▸ JavaScript |
▸ WebDriver |
| ▸ HTML & CSS |
▸ React.js |
| ▸ C# |
▸ ASP.NET |
On my days off, I enjoy collecting records, urban bike rides, and searching for the best boba spots.
Interviews: Techtonica, Muse by Cl.io
Projects
Description: priorityHealth (pH) is a health tracking app for folks with special dietary needs. Users can track and view nutritional info for foods categorized by their tolerance levels, log their wellness journeys, and add recipes to different collections. Link
Built With: React, Node, Express, Postgres, auth0, Docker, Edamam's Nutrition Analysis API, Edamam's Food DataBase API, Interweave, Render
Category: Passion Project
Description: For Techtonica, I spent ~4 days building a game I'm passionate about: Sudoku. My favorite part building this game was figuring out an algorithm to dynamically update the styling according to duplicates in a row, column, and a parent box grid. Link
Built With: JS, HTML, CSS
Category: Passion Project
GWOAT: Greatest Women Of All Time
Description: GWOAT is a blog page I built, where the design is reminiscent of customized Xanga or Tumblr pages from the 2000-2010's. For this project, I interviewed folks from my Techtonica cohort about women artists they wanted to show appreciation for on the site. I really enjoyed building a full-stack web application where users can add posts, styled with HTML, to depict their favorite woman artist. Link
Built With: React, Node, Express, Postgres, Interweave
Category: #PracticeMakesProgress
Description: For this project, a user can answer random questions fetched from the Open Trivia Database in a space-themed UI. Link
Built With: React, Node, Express, Jest, RTL
Category: #PracticeMakesProgress
Description: Got It! is a shopping list app for anyone who loves to cook, prep, and plan on a regular basis.
Got It has a recurring list feature where you can stay on top of your recurring shopping lists on a regular basis. Link
Built With: Node.js, React.js, Express.js, Postgres, Google Cal API, Google, OAuth2, Bootstrap
Category: Passion Project
Description: For this project, I practiced designing a complete recipe page. I really enjoyed working on this project to deepen my knowledge of CSS. (Also because I featured a recipe for one of my favorite snacks.) Link
Built With: JS, HTML, CSS
Category: Passion Project
Description: With this game, one can practice binary search. Built to be accessible to those with visual or physical impairments and/or dyslexia. Link
Built With: HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap
Category: Passion Project
Description: After taking 1 week to review some React basics, I built a React-based memory game to apply my understanding. This game uses a set of imported images, which a user can click and match based on memory. Link
Built With: React, HTML, CSS
Category: #PracticeMakesProgress
Description: For this project, I practiced fetching data from the Open Weather API. Thanks to React, the view is dynamically updated based on the user's selection--just as though they were viewing their own weather app. Link
Built With: React, Open Weather API
Category: #PracticeMakesProgress
Description: Practiced DOM manipulation by creating a mock-up bank account for a fake user named "Billy". All of the HTML was done via JS scripts. Link
Built With: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Category: #PracticeMakesProgress
Description: I used this project to practice dynamically updating a view of mock-up property listings according to 3 ways of searching:
typing a property name in the search bar,
selecting/deselecting amenities,
and filtering by occupancy range. Link
Built With: React, Tailwind CSS
Category: #PracticeMakesProgress
Experience
Software Development Engineer in Test @ PlayStation
JAN 2023 - PRESENT
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▸ Fixed and updated a localization via WebDriver tool used by multiple QA teams that reduced manual testing time from 32 hours per feature to <10 minutes
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▸ Tested expected user flow, bugs, and releases through manual verification, sanity testing, smoke testing, and regression testing to ensure high quality builds
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▸ Automated test cases for full-stack features on the PlayStation Web Store
Software Engineer Apprentice @ Techtonica
JUL 2022 - JAN 2023
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▸ Conceptualized, developed, and designed capstone projects for 2 web applications
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▸ Built and deployed full-stack web applications on a weekly basis using JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Express, React, and Node
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▸ Led team meetings and peer code reviews
JUL 2021 - DEC 2021
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▸ Completed tickets adding features, conducting tech discoveries, and fixing bugs using C#, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, and Stacks for CSS
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▸ Contributed to sunsetting a major user-facing service by investigating the impact of deprecating code and testing user flows
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▸ Supported higher-level engineers building a brand new ad service
Individual Contributor - User Operations @ Yelp
JAN 2016 - JAN 2021
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▸ Led the Case Escalations project, delegating and supporting a high-performance team that closed 500+ contested weekly cases while maintaining a 1-2 day turnaround time
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▸ Worked cross-functionally with PR and Engineering to support project that protected business listings from ~320 media-related site abuse cases per month
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▸ Q3 2020: Received the Above & Beyond award for championing multiple key teams during a challenging quarter
