Erin Varey

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About Me

Hi, I'm Erin. I'm a Solution Architect at Bell. I mainly do web development (mern stack) and dev-ops but I also design new aspects of the website. My hobbies consist of reading, running, and sometimes coding. My favourite genres of books are fantasy and science fiction but I like to read a variety of everything. My current favourite author is Brandon Sanderson and my all time favourite series is Mistborn. I like to track all my reading through Goodreads. In addition to reading I’ve been a fan of running distance for a long time. I did track throughout school and I like to try and keep myself active in the warmer months. I’m not very competitive however so I won’t do races unless they have fun themes like zombie run.
Now for the hobby that you probably care about, coding. I like to create things at Hackathons, generally with sillier themes behind them. I prefer to direct the more practical aspects of my coding towards my studies as it’s much easier to motivate myself to create something that makes me laugh. That being said, I have still made some pretty cool things for fun as shown in my portfolio.
This website was created as part of my challenge to code more consistently in my free time in 2017. Now I keep it more as a portfolio and place to expirement with code outside of work.

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Portfolio

Courses

Ucertify Security+

I recently had the pleasure of taking Ucertifies security+ course. This course covered a broad introduction to security. If you don't have a technical background a lot of explanation is still given but I'd recommend having some experience with computers. This course covered everything from cryptography, server setup, vulnerability overview, to the risk with modern technology like cloud services. As a Solution Architect I need to have a good understanding of technology and the risk that come with it. This course covered the general information I would need to know in my role. The course has hands on labs that teach you how to configure firewalls, password policies and the IT style work you'd be doing with security. The textbook covered the exam content with useful hints to what is covered. There's mini test at the end of every chapter to help you solidify the information that is covered. Additionally there's two practice test which you can take exam style, or in learning style where it explains what you got wrong and why. I need to do some memorizing before I write the exam but this was a great over view of what you need to know.

Chrome Extensions

The Internet of Cats

The internet of cats is a Chrome extension I developed during year of code. It replaces every image and select nouns on webpages with cat pictures. My goal was to demonstrate my ability to use Javascript and make something silly.

Rather

Rather is web application redeveloped as part of a project-based course. The application filters out a blacklist containing any unwanted phrases or words. It removes them from both statuses and images in your Facebook feed. You have the option to hide or replace the unwanted images with gifs of your choice. Some features like selectively unfiltering friends were also implemented.

Java Applications

Trackr

Trackr was developed as a music recommendation application. Using a 1 million song dataset it engages the user with a series of questions after which it narrows the set and recommends more music based on the answers.

Android

Drink Safe

I've recently gotten into developing in android. My current project is developing and app that will measure various proficiencies to determine if the user is inebriated to a dangerous level. If a certain level of failure is reached it will call a preprogrammed content to come them such as an uber or a parent.

Special Projects

Year Of Code

I plan to code every single day in 2017. Each day's coding is tracked on my Github. The goal of this is to improve my ability to code by doing it in small, manageable amounts such as 15 minutes everyday. So far the project is progressing well.