Skyler Conley

I am pleased to recommend Skyler for a position as a full stack web developer. He built our website, independently learning the required programming languages and technologies.

Skyler delivered a stable and functional site, adhering to my design and guidance. He showed strong technical skills, attention to detail, and a passion for learning.

I am confident he will excel in any development role and be a valuable addition to your team.

Skyler's 4.0 GPA and Phi Theta Kappa honors society membership won him a summer internship with the Global Quality Engineering team here at Disney Parks Technology Services. We needed a JavaScript-centric SDET with solid knowledge of the node.js framework, and he blew through our white-boarding session without a hiccup. His JavaScript skills are actually much more worthy of a senior level SDET than an entry level intern and we were very happy to bring him onboard!

During his time with us he helped us to write and re-factor step-definitions for our node.js test automation framework, but was most beneficial in helping to rewrite an in-house Chrome extension originally used for gathering data from our ALM database, and retooling it to work with our new qTest test case management tool.

The process was very complex and required plowing through tons of poorly commented spaghetti code, making sense of it all, and then methodically rebuilding all functions to work with the new database. His code easily passed review and was merged swiftly. His work on the tool actually unblocked the team! If we had the headcount available, we would have hired him as a cast member! He will be an excellent addition to any development team in need of a JavaScript pro!

To whom it may concern,

Skyler Conley was a student in my Spring 2023 BATECH 289 Front End Web Development class. He was an outstanding student, and has a unique perspective on both the coding process and the visual design process. I met one-on-one with him weekly, and was constantly amazed at his enthusiasm for coding and by the fluency of his web development. Our meetings were exciting, honest, forthright, fun, and unpredictable. I never knew what cool new code he would throw at his projects and assignments. He taught me a lot of new processes and pushed my ideas of what is possible.

He was also a good listener, and was quite often inspired by my perspectives and feedback. I enjoyed the easy way we were able to toss ideas around, and loved seeing him work in front of my eyes in real time.

I must also toss in the fact that he earned perfect scores on every single assignment. In short, Skyler is a model student and, I believe, a model front end developer. His communication skills, enthusiasm for learning, and friendly personality will allow him to serve quite well within any web development team.

Feel free to contact me directly if you'd like to further discuss Skyler and his work.

To whom it may concern:

Skyler Conley was a student of mine in a web programming class at Bellevue College. Back in January of 2023 the course was called PROG209, it has since been renamed to DEV209. It is a 2nd year course which focuses on writing a complete web app, both the client code and the server-side code. For the client, the course requires appropriate use of JavaScript objects and constructors, HTML, CSS, a SPA (Single Page Application) JavaScript framework, and making RESTful calls to the server to persist and retrieve data. The server-side code was done in a Virtual Machine hosting Linux with the Node.js server. Data was persisted to the Linux file system. All sources were kept in GitHub. For a second project, Skyler was required to write a web-based game using the HTML Canvas features.

Skyler was a solid programmer, and he had no difficulty comprehending new material. He received perfect scores on every homework and test. In addition, he always went well beyond the actual assignment, writing considerable extra code to make his solution to a problem much more eloquent and user friendly. His web app project and his Asteroid Gauntlet game project (see his resume), were substantially better than the average games from other students.

Because this was an online class, there was very little student to student interaction. However, what I observed in his interactions with me in class was a friendly, articulate, and responsible student, a real pleasure to have in my class.