About Me

My love of software stemmed from my love of gaming growing up. After diving into game development, I transitioned towards general software development. My curiosity brings me to many different fields of software engineering, and I am always seeking new experiences in all aspects of life.

Before Software

Before I was at Atomic Object, I played Division 1 soccer on a full ride scholarship at University of Detroit Mercy. At Michigan State University, with all the extra free time, I competed in numerous hackathons, enrolled in a VR bootcamp in San Francisco, and developed Virtual Reality games in my free time.

Contact Details

Don Nakashima
+1(248)-924-7419
donnakashima@gmail.com

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Education

Michigan State University

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science •Class of 2020

Make School Summer Academy

VR Development Track •June 2017-Aug 2017

Work

React Web Developer

AWC, Inc.• June 2021 - Current

  • - Developed and implemented a new front-end architecture using React and TypeScript/JavaScript, along with Redux for state management
  • - Created front-end user interfaces to match Adobe XD files according to design specifications
  • - Established cleaner project version control by merging projects into a mono repository for ease of managing packages globally
  • - Upgraded project to use Yarn PnP to save development build time through minimal install footprints, shared installs across disks, and ghost dependencies protection
  • - Designed and developed a reusable component library similar to Storybook
  • - Integrated back-end APIs created with ASP.NET Core framework written in VB.NET and tested these endpoints with Postman to send and retrieve data
  • - Implemented automated testing platforms with Cypress and unit tests using Jest and Mocha, resulting in a reduction of bug-related delays and an increase in overall code quality
  • - Managed projects effectively using Azure DevOps tools

Software Developer & Consultant

Atomic Object• Aug 2020 - Apr 2021

  • - Part of Atomic's Accelerator program, Cell Gamma, to develop career skills as a junior developer
  • - Work on self-managed teams of 2-10 designers, developers, and testers
  • - Collaborate with clients to build products from scratch
  • - Variety of tech stacks utilized

Principal Investment Portfolio Construction Developer

Principal Financial Services, Inc.• Jan 2020 - May 2020

  • - Team of 4: Senior Capstone Project
  • - Developed a web application that provides a user interface for investment analysts to generate portfolio constructions
  • - Using the serverless application model in AWS, built with Angular framework, AWS S3, AWS API, AWS Lambda, and AWS DynamoDB

JSTOR Labs Intern

Ithaka• May 2019 - Dec 2019

  • - Worked with the Labs staff to develop the JSTOR Understanding Series site
  • - Reformat HTML/CSS text for compatibility with an automated processing pipeline to perform text matching, indexing, and linking
  • - Machine learning process for text annotations

Mobile AR Developer

Michigan State University IT• May 2018 - Aug 2018

  • - Developed spARtan, a location-based augmented reality iOS application that takes the current position and identifies nearby points of interests in an AR space
  • - Assisted with design and features for the official MSU mobile application
  • - Developed in Unity

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