Daniel von Boros

Hi, my name is Daniel, as a vegan I am constantly trying to lower my impact on the planet. I am a 31-year-old web developer based in Berlin, Germany.

I recently changed my career from architecture and project management to coding. I tend to approach new topics clear structured and design-driven.

Creating things always played a big role in my life. As a child I used to play with LEGO bricks, then started crafting furniture as a teenager and learned to design buildings in university, where I attained my masters-degree in architecture.

Coding started as a hobby when I began to think about improving communication and processes on construction sites and it soon became a serious career path.

Driven by the idea to make a bigger impact on society and the planet, I want to create applications and user interfaces, that help people make everyday life easier.

I am currently looking for a job in a progressive and forward-thinking company in an open-minded and supportive team. The support and explanations that are offered on different platforms throughout the web is what I already appreciate.

I'm sure I can draw your interest in my work below, check it out and don't hesitate to get in touch. I am thrilled to hearing from you.

Full Stack Web Development

React, JavaScript

Angular, TypeScript

HTML, CSS

2021/10 - 2021/04

Berliner Hochschule für Technik

University of Applied Sciences

M.Sc. Architecture

2017/04 - 2014/10

Hochschule Karlsruhe

University of Applied Sciences

B.A. Architecture

2014/07 - 2011/10

Bauart Gruppe

Project Manager

Project Manager in Construction

2021/02 - 2020/05

Von Rüden Immobilien

Department Head Construction

2019/12 - 2018/10

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Project Manager

2018/10-2018/03

Meisterbau Teltow

Construction Manager

2018/02 - 2017/04

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Student Intern

2017/04-2016/02

filmOpedia App

React Application built using the MERN Stack. Styled with Bootstrap. Movie Database

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Meet App

Serverless TDD React App built with the Google Calendar API. Coding Events calendar

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filmOpedia App Angular

Angular Application built using the MEAN stack. Styled with Material UI. Movie Database

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talk App

React Native Application built with Expo. Chat Application

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filmopedia API

API Backend to Movie Database. Built with Node.js, Express and Mongo DB. Deployed with Heroku

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pokéDex App

JavaScript Single Page app based on the PokeAPI. Styled with Bootstrap. Pokedex Application

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Case study for filmOpedia React Application

THE CHALLENGE

To create a portfolio project from scratch, developing both backend and frontend and connecting the server-side to the client side. Develop the application using the MERN stack. filmOpedia is designed as an online movie library that should provide data about movies, genres and directors as well as personal information about the user. Users should be able to create a user account with a username, email and birthday as well as a list of favourite movies.

PURPOSE & CONTEXT

filmOpedia was created as a part of the Full-Stack-Development course at CareerFoundry. Both server-side and client-side had to be created, to showcase the skills in handling databases and creating a React Web Application from scratch. My role was to act as a full-stack developer on the project, creating back-end, front-end and style the application with an attractive user interface.

THE PROCESS

Set up backend-logic for creating, reading, updating and deleting data stored on a server and connect these processes to the frontend. Then create a simple to use and nice looking application that displays the data from collections that are being stored on the server.

TOOLS USED

The project was created using the MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) stack.

BACKEND DEVELOPMENT

The backend is designed to contain two collections: one for the users and another one for the movies. Both collections contain data in JSON format. The backend was designed to allow create a user and read from users collection requests without authorisation (to create users and allow login requests). To prevent the application from asking for username and password at any request a user makes, password hashing and a JWT-token were added to the page, that is valid for a week, so users only have to login once a week and will be automatically authenticated by the token in between. The login request itself uses HTTP authentication. To test the API I used Postman to test the endpoints and all requests.

FRONTEND DEVELOPMENT

After completing the backend for the application, the frontend for the application is created and designed. It was my first approach to React, it is bundled with Parcel and styled with React Bootstrap. To be able to access different routes directly from the web address input, React Router is added to the webpage to provide direct access to certain components, as well as a direct URL for each object in the collection. The application itself provides different views, the main view provides information about all movies, from here several different views can be accessed: a profile view (to display, edit or delete user information and information about favourite movies), a single movie view (to display a description of one selected movie), a genre view (to display information about a movie genre), a director view (to provide information on a director) and a registration view and login view, where users can register and registered users are able to sign-in.

CHALLENGES

After developing the backend of the application was effective and a lot of fun, during the development of the frontend I faced most challenges I ever faced in developing a portfolio project out of the CareerFoundry bootcamp. It made me more than once doubt about my abilities in coding. With the help of my tutor I was able to solve the challenge in the end. But after seeing my tutor having as well problems at one point or another, my scepsis towards my coding skills decreased. In the end it turned out to be a great training for me to do the project for a second time, and I was able to wrap my head around the tasks a lot faster.

DURATION

Developing this application (both front-end and back-end) took me around 6 weeks in the end. I’ve been stuck at several points in the development of the application. When the task was finally ready for submission, I had learned a lot and learned a lot when facing probably the most difficulties through the entire process.