About Me

Hello! I’m Marshall.

I’m a hard-working, newly-minted Front-End Engineer passionate about shaping the future of the web. I recently graduated from the Front-End Engineering course at The Iron Yard in Greenville, SC. While there, I was met with daily challenges like learning new concepts and deploying code to the web. There, I became versed in creating CRUD applications and working with RESTful APIs.

However, that alone doesn't sum up the whole of my experience. I have a background in design, web-to-print variable document development, I.T. management and myriad other skills gained while working in the field before deciding to take on the wonderful world of web development.

Skills pay the bills

I build software utilizing modern web technologies, frameworks, libraries and build tools. Following the MVC-style approach to help manage data flow, I bring to life snappy user interfaces and keep data up-to-date with state using Backbone & React.

CSS3 via Sass is my go-to for authoring styles for my markup—I especially like tinkering around with transitions and animations. I’ve mostly written my JavaScript in ES3/ES5 and beginning to explore ES6/2015—the spec is a big improvement over what we’ve had in past years and future iterations of the spec are exciting.

I’m a life learner and striving to improve upon what I know. I keep my ear to the ground through various web development newsletters and find code challenges as a way to keep current in this rapidly growing space!

Skill Score Card

(because some self-praise is necessary)

Organization

Communication

Code Style

Design

Brewing Coffee

Tech, Tools and Frameworks

Most developers know there is a vast amount of tools available to develop the web, with new tools seemingly coming out every other week. Deciding on which tools to use can sometimes be a tough choice and learning new tools can be both exciting and terrifying. There are thousands upon thousands of tech-minded folks out there pioneering what it looks like to develop for the front end — and I'm excited to be a part of it!

Below is a list of the core technologies, tools and frameworks (represented by their pretty logos) that summarize the tech that I've learned to use thus far:

Recent Work

Spark-A-Story

This is the capstone project of the cohort, a culmination of the 12 hard weeks at The Iron Yard. The idea of my app was to create a collaborative story-telling platform, where users can create an account, upload a photo of their faces, and either start a new story, or add to others.

This project is built with the most current web technologies plus React, Backbone, Bootstrap (Sass), and powered by Parse Server on the back-end. It's 3rd party API is LanguageTool.org’s free online grammar checker. To demo it now, go to the Live link, click Demo and then Log In.

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More Projects

Get in touch:

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Marshall Thompson

Front-End Engineer