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Hey, I'm Kortney! I'm a software engineer with 7+ years of experience in web development, building sites, apps, APIs, and more. My focus is Backend Development with experience in cloud technologies like Amazon Web Services.

About me

After finishing up my undergraduate degree in Information Technology, I accepted a fulltime offer from a company I had interned with the previous summer, Synovus Financial Corp. This opportunity provided a critical chance for me to deep-dive into the world of financial technology, and also my first real peek into the world of software development. I've always enjoyed building things, whether it be from Lego blocks as a kid, or the various components of a computer. A fascination with the way things work, and how to make them work better, drives me to constantly seek out new technologies and techniques to help me develop solutions to problems and better myself.

Over the course of my career I have worked in various industries, such as financial tech, medical billing tech, and even sports betting tech. I have worked with a variety of technologies, such as Java, Ruby on Rails, and Go, and have learned so much along the way. I most recently gained a keen interest in cloud technologies due to the nature of my current role, and have been working with AWS to help build and maintain the infrastructure for our applications. This interest even led me to pursue and obtain the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Foundational certification, and I don't plan on stopping there. So with that said, I am excited to see what the future holds, and I am eager to continue learning and growing as a software engineer.

When I'm not coding, I enjoy playing video games, reading, spending time with my friends and family, cycling, and weightlifting. I am also a huge movie buff, and I'm always up for a good discussion about the latest movie or show!

My projects

ChatterBox (Coming Soon)

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MovieBot

A conversational AI chatbot built using AWS services. It uses Lex and a Lambda function written in Python to provide movie recommendations, with the TMDB API as the source.

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  • Lambda
  • CloudFormation
  • S3
  • Python
  • TMDB API
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Pop Quiz (Coming Soon)

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My skills

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My experience

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