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Melanie
Plaza
EDUCATION
General Assembly
Web Development Immersive
Mar 2014- Jun 2014
Completed a 3 month intensive course to learn full-stack
web development. Created web apps with RoR, AngularJS,
JS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RSpec, AWS, git and more.
Used agile development practices, TDD and BDD.
We b D e v e l o p e r
AB OU T M E
Recent General Assembly grad
looking to join a great team
building awesome, data-driven
products.
Thinkful/ HackYale
Front End Development
2012-2013
Intro to web development and responsive design. Learned
to build basic sites with HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and
JQuery.
Yale University
B.S., Biology
2008- 2012
GPA 3.6/4.0
Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Memorial Scholarship; Belle and
Carl Morse Scholarship; Tetelman Fellowship
Bronx HS of Science
GPA 98.0/100.0
2004- 2008
C ONTAC T M E
(917) 741-3160
3221 Carter Ave #111
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
[email protected]
melanieplaza.com
EXPERIENC E
General Assembly
Web Development Teaching Assistant
July 2014- present
Help students learn and apply course material, debug and
assist with projects.
Continuity Partners Research Associate
2013 - 2014
Sourced and screened appropriate technology candidates for
NYC startup clients.
Crunchbutton
Co-founder
2011-2012
Helped start successful online food-ordering service.
Yale University
Directed Research & Bioinformatics Data Editor
Smith Lab
Buss Lab
Peabody Museum
2009-2012
Conducted greenhouse experiment with MANOVA analysis to
outcome of model experiments.
Tested theory of expanded host range of recently discovered phyla
of microscopic animals, published paper.
Updated Treebase database for compatible integration with
Genbank.
REC ENT PROJECTS
Millineum Development Generated an API for the UN's Millennium Development
Goal Visualization
Goals and created in interactive data visualization.
Home Street Home
Created a crowdfunding platform for homeless individuals to
AngularJS, RoR, Javascript, PostgreSQL, JSON, D3
RoR, PostgreSQL, Twilio, AngularJS, JSON
Made a simple anonymous message board that really caught
Anonie
on in the small community it was introduced to. Users
generated new posts every few minutes.
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RoR, PostgreSQL
SKILLS
Back-End
Front-End
Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, MongoDB,
Javascript, AngularJS, JQuery, HTML5,
JSON, SQL, RSpec, AWS, git, APIs
CSS3, SASS, Bootstrap, Foundation

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