Jenny Xu

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Personal Projects

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Built with love for all the Ghibli fans. Data fetched from Ghibli API using AJAX. Other tools I used are React and React Router V6. Currently, I am adding more features to it, including a search bar, user authentication, and more cool stuff!
Totoro Time → Code on GitHub
Built with love for all the Ghibli fans. Data fetched from Ghibli API using AJAX. Other tools I used are React and React Router V6. Currently, I am adding more features to it, including a search bar, user authentication, and more cool stuff!
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"How Long Did I Work?" is a handy time range calculator that I built which takes in plain text and parses out any time ranges, then displays the total hours. I built this tool using vanilla JavaScript and used the date-fns library to do time calculations.
How Long Did I Work? → Code on GitHub
"How Long Did I Work?" is a handy time range calculator that I built which takes in plain text and parses out any time ranges, then displays the total hours. I built this tool using vanilla JavaScript and used the date-fns library to do time calculations.
longhua history pic
I used React to build this project which aims to bring awareness to an important historical site in my hometown of Longhua. I translated the original Chinese article to English and embedded Wikipedia links. I used React Router to build the menu.
Longhua History → Code on GitHub
I used React to build this project which aims to bring awareness to an important historical site in my hometown of Longhua. I translated the original Chinese article to English and embedded Wikipedia links. I used React Router to build the menu.

Team Projects

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myBallot | WA
This first prize winning hackathon project was built using React. I built and styled most of the pages and pair-programmed with another developer on the print ballot PDF functionality.
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Be Trippin'
I made the backend of this five-day team project with Node, Express and MongoDB. I also helped with the frontend, including the responsive navigation bar.

My Volunteering

Code for San José

I'm involved in the Police Data Trust project as a backend engineer.

Hackathons I Went To

GA's Alumni Social Impact Hackathon

I worked with three fellow programmers and teamed up with three UI/UX designers. My team won the first prize out of five teams after coding 60+ hours.
Ctrl+Alt+Elite Team Picture
Ctrl+Alt+Elite team picture

First Prize Project - myBallot | WA

myBallot | WA was created to serve as a voter reference tool. It was built as an accompanying application to the Washington mail-in ballots, and as an environmentally conscious replacement of the paper Voters’ Pamphlet that is mailed to each registered voter.
myBallot app picture
myBallot app picture

Owl Hacks - Fall 2017

This was my first ever hackathon, at which I teamed with two other coders and spent 20+ hours making a game called 2048 Pink. My team won the People's Choice out of eight teams.
2048 Team Picture
2048 Pink team picture

People's Choice Project - 2048 Pink

2048 Pink is a remake of the original game 2048 which was super popular when I was 15.
2048 Final Demo
2048 Pink final demo picture