Barry McGuirk

Full-stack Web Developer, Pre-Sales Solutions Engineer, SaaS Sales Professional

About Me

Get to know me!

I'm from Dublin, Ireland and have lived in many places around the world, like Singapore, UK and New Zealand. I'm currently based in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

My professional background is in marketing, sales and business development, with a lot of focus on enterprise software.

I'm currently on a mission to learn how to put my business experience to work in a more technical setting, check out some of my recent projects below.

My Skills

AWS Lambda

Express

JavaScript

Flux/Redux

MongoDB

React Native

Next.js

Tailwind CSS

Git

Bootstrap

Test-Driven Development

Angular

Projects

Snafuzoo - Issue Tracker

This issue tracking app is built on Next.JS. It allows the user to create edit and manage issues, assign to other users and has a built-in dashboard for an overview of all issues

Movie App API

This fully functional RESTful API provides users with secure authorization, access to interesting data about movies and allows them to create a simple profile. It was an exercise in advanced backend development.

Movie App - React Front End

Built on the MERN stack and demonstrating advanced client side programming, this is a Single Page Web Application allowing users to interact with the data in the Movie App API.

meetApp

meetApp is a progressive web application that allows users to view events, pulled from Google Calendar API, in their location. This project was an exercise in creating serverless functions on AWS Lambda, using oAuth2 and data visualization.

chinwag

chinwag is a React Native Mobile Chat App, it provides users with a chat interface inside a single chat room, and functionality to share images, audio and location. It uses Google Firebase Realtime Database.

Pokedex

Building this pokedex was a fun way to learn about DOM interaction, Ajax and asychronous behaviour. Built using Bootstrap and jQuery.

WatchList

WatchList is an alternative front-end for the Movie API built in Angular. With a slightly simpler UI, it was an opportunity to learn the Angular framework