Rebecca Schmelzer

ABOUT ME

Hi there! I'm an engineering student at McMaster University, majoring in Software. I am expected to graduate in 2024. Welcome to my website! I will be updating this page with all my projects, internships and experiences that have to do with my journey as a future software engineer! Please feel free to contact me or view my resume/github using the buttons found under my name in bold!

In terms of interests, I see both front-end and back-end development in my future as I am interested in both sides of software development. Specifically web and mobile development, as well as security and embedded systems development. I hope to get experience in all of these areas of software engineering to help me narrow down what I want to do for the rest of my career!

Currently in my third year of university, I am learning so much. For most of high school I actually wanted to be an artist, a dancer specifically. When I became more interested in STEM I decided that dance was not for me and I started taking all the STEM related courses I could find. Now in an engineering program, I spend most of my time researching, learning as much as I can about the industries I'm interested and programming fun projects to build up my skill set. My journey so far has been an amazing experience and I cannot wait to continue to learn and hopefully post some more about the fun things I am working on! Everything I do will be posted to my personal GitHub where you can see all my code and documentation.

IT & Content Development Intern, Crown Academy

Led team of 5 co-workers consisting of engineering students in researching solutions for improving website performance.
Improved web performance by 15% by debugging multiple Plugins through writing test scripts (JavaScript).
Increased code coverage by 10% within the Information Technology team by creating unit tests (Java, JavaScript)
Designed and implemented navigation menus and admission forms for company website (JavaScript, HTML, CSS )

Becflix

Created a Firebase app that shows titles of movies and TV based on specific categories such as horror, comedy, etc.
Implemented front-end using ReactJS, connected to a database through an API key given by TMDB.
Implemented authentication pages: sign up and login/logout, and plan upgrade page using ReactJS and Redux.

Job Search

Created a website to make searching for jobs easier.
Aimed to help students with their hunt for full-time jobs/internships.
Implemented the entire front-end and back-end with extended features such as specified filtered searches. (JavaScript)

COVID-19 Tracking Platform

Led team of 3: organized meetings, delegated tasks, helped teammates debug, etc.
Platform that utilizes data taken from multiple countries to output figures such as active cases, total cases, new cases, total recovered, total deaths and calculates mortality rate
Built with Python and Tkinter to create an easy-to-use interface, creating drop-down and search bar menus as well as colorful labels to output the data clearly.

Cryptography Tutorial

For Code Week as a part of Kurius, a non profit built to teach students to code, in March 2021
Created and recorded a tutorial in Java for students attending a week of coding workshops.
Built encypting and decrypting algorithms such as shift/Caesar & Playfair ciphers.