Angel Gurrola

About

Software engineering capstone contributor who helped kickstart an ambiguous, real-client project ("The Virtual Cowboy") by designing the initial relational database and CRUD foundation, then prioritized and shipped simulation/event functionality that satisfied the client. Also building a personal full-stack Book Notes web app (Node/Express/Postgres) with Google OAuth via Passport and a books API ingestion flow focused on data quality and reliability; has deployment experience with Heroku and PythonAnywhere and is ramping up on AWS.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• End-to-end feature ownership on personal full-stack app (OAuth login + sessions + Postgres)
• Relational data modeling for complex domain (ranch/cattle simulation entities and relationships)
• Built and implemented CRUD APIs tied to data models and simulation workflows
• Pragmatic performance optimization by reducing simulation update frequency (to 15-second intervals)
• Strong data-integrity mindset for third-party API ingestion (validation, constraints, error handling, check-before-insert)
• High-ownership execution in ambiguous client-driven capstone; shipped early MVP that unblocked team progress
• Maintainability practices: naming conventions, modularized backend services, disciplined Git branching, ongoing documentation