I work on independent software development projects so I can gain practical experience in the technical areas I'm interested in. I certainly learn from the effort I put into my blog posts, but the more substantial scope and personal time commitment for my projects makes them a bit more representative of professional development work.

This project involves a Spring MVC website hosted on Amazon Web Services, and was formerly online at SpringBikeClinic.com. The application is built with Spring Boot and Spring MVC, using Java 11. Data access is implemented with Spring Data JPA and Hibernate. Spring Security provides the authentication and authorization framework. The UI is implemented with Thymeleaf and Bootstrap. You can find the source code in this GitHub repository.

To complete my Android Developer Nanodegree in 2018, I envisioned an ambitious app that included a Firebase Realtime Database for persistence as well as Google Maps API integration. These days I would take a different approach to the app architecture, but I learned a heck of a lot and am still proud of the accomplishment.