Rachel Fuerst

Brown Girls Food Club

Brown Girls Food Club is a newly formed group based in Austin which is building a community of women of color by hosting monthly meetups at minority owned restaurants in Austin.

As a new organization that is growing far more quickly than anticipated, I recognized the need for a central location for BGFC information, upcoming events, RSVPS and a space for members to connect.

I approached the BGFC group founders with the suggestion and together we identified three important features of the app, with room to grow from there.

Checkout a demo of the MVP of our app! We hope to launch a more polished version of this MVP soon, so stay tuned!

Built with React and a Ruby/Rails backend API with a PostgreSQL database. Checkout the Readme for further tech details.

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Atlassian Log Analyzer

In February 2019, I competed in a quarterly employee hackathon hosted by Atlassian, with one other developer (more details here).

In 24 hours my colleague and I transformed the Atlassian Log Scanner from a native application plugin to it’s own web-based app to make it more accessible. The tool scans thousands of lines of logs and configuration files to bring to light known issues that may only be identifiable by a single line.

The tool improves Support Engineering workflows and was awarded the following:

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Interactive Voting Site

We've all had the frustrating experience of navigating local government websites to find voting information. I built an interactive voting site meant to distill important information for voters in Travis County, Texas.

This is a static site built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery. The map functionality comes from Google's Civic API and the Voting Information Project's embeddable Voter Information Tool. Data is only populated to the API during election cycles.

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Science Master

An interactive science trivia app that tracks your time and score and ranks the top 5 players.

Built on Ruby/Rails backend API with a PostgreSQL database and a vanilla Javascript front-end. Custom designed CSS with animations added for a more interactive experience.

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NBA Stats Tracker

If you're an NBA fan, you know it is hard to watch every game to see how your favorite players and teams are doing. We created a one-stop-shop where you can track your favorite players and teams. This web app has the following interactive functionalities:

• Find stats for specific teams or players
• Save these teams or players so you can continue to reference them over time
• Reference a five year analysis of each player's stats.

Check it out:

• GitHub Repo
• Demo Video

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311Now

Every city has municipal services to address dangerous conditions on streets and highways. A resident must call the city to report these issues, creating a one-to-one interaction between the city and a resident. As such, other residents have no visibility into whether other residents have already reported an issue.

We created 311Now to ease the process of reporting and provide residents in the community a platform to highlight and discuss issues in their community.

Built on Ruby/Rails, the app supports login/signup and file uploads through Active Storage.

Check it out:

• GitHub Repo with Demo

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