Brian Hayzlett

About Me

I’m a software developer with full-stack experience looking to take on my next new challenge. When confronted with a problem, I analyze and tackle it from all angles, developing the best possible solution. My passion, skill, and tenacity make me an asset for every team I work with.

Projects

Trippr
Trippr is a full-stack, collaborative, crowd-sourced trip reporting app, featuring infinite scrolling, highlighting text within the reports using custom highlighting functionality, adding photos to the highlights via Cloudinary, and fuzzy searching reports.
Github

SciFiReads
SciFiReads is a full-stack web app using Ruby on Rails with SQL on the back end and React, Javascript, and JQuery on the front-end. Canvas drawing with Javascript provides the Matrix effect, and Google Books API provides the book library.
Github

Bee's Travails
Bees' Travails is a demonstration of the power of O(n!) time complexity. A Javascript Algorithm calculates a solution to the Traveling Salesman problem and draws the solution on the canvas.
Github

Actify
Actify is an Object-Relational Mapping tool inspired by ActiveRecord. It allows users to create and modify rows in database tables.
Github

#SETIDecryptChallenge
#SETIDecryptChallenge was a month-long challenge to decrypt a mock alien signal. AlienCommunique represents a team solution to the challenge with txt file analysis and decryption methods, and it is one of the 66 correct solutions to the challenge.
Answers and Solvers
Github

Skills

Education

App Academy

Intensive 1000‐hour web development course with less than 5% acceptance rate.
Topics include TDD, scalability, algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, coding style, single-page apps, and web development best practices.

Tufts University

Major: Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Minor: Entrepreneurial Leadership
Graduated: May 2013 | GPA: 3.2