Hi. I'm Derik Schaefer.

A Software Engineer

Learn about what I do

About me

A proud United States Coast Guard Veteran. Highly motivated, driven, and resilient. 13 years of experience working in high-pressure teams. Desires to work with a team of smart and creative people developing technology that helps people achieve their goals. Training and preparing to transition into tech since October 2020. Immediately fell in love with the problem solving involved in coding and how there is always more to learn, still love it just as much today. Active SECRET clearance (last adjudicated 2022).If you would like to see more about my military service please click here.

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See some of my recent work

Here’s some stuff I made recently.

To-do list

EJS, Node.js & Mongoose. Practicing data persistence for applications hosted online. MongoDB database, hosted on Heroku

Startup Webpage

Front-end only. Practicing responsive design & bootstrap.
I think the visual design & colors turned out good

Data Serialization

C# application I wrote that writes data to a file using all three methods of serialization and deserialization. You can see my code here

C# Database Application

Practicing creating a database application in C# & connecting it to an SQL database via ADO.NET. My code can be viewed here

My Blog

MongoDB back-end. More data persistence practice.
Hosted on Heroku
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