Kevin Loughead's Portfolio

Kevin Loughead

Software Engineer | Content Manager

Kevin Loughead

Hello, world! My name's Kevin and I'm a content manager and author for the Practicum by Yandex software engineering bootcamp. I'm also something of a software engineer myself. I like to work on web development projects and command line applications, in a variety of languages. Thanks for stopping by!

Frontend and Fullstack Projects

  • My blog (not yet named)

    • React
    • NextJS
    • TailwindCSS
    • Remark
    My blog (not yet named)
    • Work in progress. A blog site written with NextJS using TailwindCSS for styling.
    • The content is so far mostly about command line tools automation with Bash scripts.
    • Articles are written in markdown, using RemarkJS to process it into HTML.

  • News Explorer

    • React
    • Node
    • Express
    • MongoDB
    • JavaScript
    News Explorer
    • A MERN stack application that interacts with the public News API service to search for and display articles.
    • Authenticated users can save articles to their personal profile pages for later reading.
    • This was the capstone project of the Practicum Web Development bootcamp. The frontend was created with Create-React-App, and the backend is written in Node/Express.js with MongoDB. The backend is deployed on a Google Cloud EC2 instance, with a Linux OS.

  • An Invoicing App

    • React
    • JavaScript
    • Styled-Components
    An Invoicing App
    • An invoice app built using specs from Frontend Mentor. Features include
    • - Dark/light mode
    • - Forms for creating new invoices and modifying existing invoices
    • - Invoice line items that calculate the total automatically
    • - [WIP] Postgresql Backend

CLI and Backend Projects

  • Command Line Notes

    • Python
    • argparse
    • git
    Command Line Notes
    • A minimal command-line note-taking app. Allows you to take markdown notes in your editor of choice. Simply typing `cln name-of-note` will create a new note, or open one that already exists.
    • Supports Github integration, allowing you to push your code to Github with a single command `cln -p`.

  • Create-Express-App

    • NodeJS
    • Bash
    • JavaScript
    • Express
    • Mongo
    Create-Express-App
    • A CLI that automates the creation of Express apps with MongoDB. You supply it with a name for the project and names for each of the models and it will installs the necessary packages, set up the file structure and write the necessary boilerplate.

  • Microservices

    • Node
    • Express
    • MongoDB
    • JavaScript
    Microservices
    • A collection of NodeJS microservices
    • - a URL shortener
    • - a time stamper
    • - a header parser
    • - a file metadata parser