Kate Grant

A portfolio of my work in software engineering that incorporates professional and creative projects. This site is built with Gatsby and GraphQL and includes a blog.

A multiplayer synthesizer for the web, controlled by position and sentiment ML. YouAreAmI is a JavaScript-based MIDI synthesizer that uses non-musical user input to control Web Audio. Synthesizer parameters respond to real-time user positionality and text analyzed with machine learning for sentiment.

A travel planning web application for groups and individuals that provides a centralized place for collaboration and trip information.
• Spearheaded task management data flow and user interface that provide users with trip tasks as an itinerary and todo list
• Enforced redundancy across frontend and backend, which bolstered data security on forms and role-based permissions
• Developed boilerplate with React, React-Redux, Axios, Express, Sequelize, and PostgreSQL, which accelerated… Show more

A travel planning web application for groups and individuals that provides a centralized place for collaboration and trip information.
• Spearheaded task management data flow and user interface that provide users with trip tasks as an itinerary and todo list
• Enforced redundancy across frontend and backend, which bolstered data security on forms and role-based permissions
• Developed boilerplate with React, React-Redux, Axios, Express, Sequelize, and PostgreSQL, which accelerated project launch
• Conserved time spent on manual testing by refactoring seed data to use persistent references, which increased productivity
• Designed logo and demo features that welcome prospective users into the core trip task management product Show less

An interactive night sky map for practicing astronomical orientation in 3D with star location and magnitude, developed using React-Three-Fiber. In this project I evaluated multiple star datasets and incorporated the HYG-Database to pipe into PostgreSQL. I am continuing to add features by building out additional filters for users to apply. Current filters include specific constellation and star color index.

A retail website for tea enthusiasts. Users can shop as guests or create an account to save purchase history. In this project I engineered the shopping cart end-to-end. This included a persistent cart for logged in users and browser-stored cart for guest users along with cart conversion from guest cart to member cart.I built dynamic quantity options and item quantity addition for product pages and items in cart and developed utility functions for accurate currency arithmetic to ensure precise… Show more

A retail website for tea enthusiasts. Users can shop as guests or create an account to save purchase history. In this project I engineered the shopping cart end-to-end. This included a persistent cart for logged in users and browser-stored cart for guest users along with cart conversion from guest cart to member cart.I built dynamic quantity options and item quantity addition for product pages and items in cart and developed utility functions for accurate currency arithmetic to ensure precise and uniform display prices. On the UX/UI side, I designed a wireframe and branding proposal with modern rounded features, gradient, and personalized navigation bar utilized in the final design. Show less

A number guessing game built with vanilla JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.

CopyPetal is a Chrome extension that creates an in-browser sticky note to view text saved to the clipboard. This allows users to compare and reference text side by side instead of switching tabs, windows, or relying on pen and paper. Text "petal" follows mouse movements.

Love in the Time of Covid is a web application that collects and displays pandemic-era date ideas. It uses a RESTful API and MERN stack (MongoDb, Express.js, React, Node.js).
-Uses React router to change view between Home, About, and Submission Form pages efficiently in the browser.
-UX/UI utilizes npm infinite scroll for ease of browsing.
-Fashionable design draws on latest fonts and design trends to reframe distanced activities as socially and culturally significant.

I developed a desktop cooking conversion calculator for use with common kitchen measurements (US & milliliters). It is developed in Java and the UX/UI is built with the JavaFX Library and CSS to implement a modern, user friendly interface.