Blaze Fugina
Software Engineer at TurnKey Corrections (@TKCKiosk)
Cottage Grove, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlaze Fugina is a full-stack software engineer in the Twin Cities with 9 years of professional experience and 2+ years focused in industry roles building jail-management software at TurnKey Corrections. He works across MySQL, Go, Angular and Ionic mobile apps, bringing a pragmatic, product-oriented approach honed through a prior career in journalism. That reporting background sharpened his ability to translate stakeholder needs into clear requirements and maintain tight communication across teams. Blaze trained at Prime Digital Academy in the MEAN stack and has a history of shipping solo projects, demonstrating both front-end polish and back-end reliability. Outside of code he trains for cross-country ski races and plays tennis, activities that mirror his disciplined, iterative approach to development.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Bachelor's Degree, Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs at University of Wisconsin-River FallsFull Stack Software Engineering Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Software Engineering Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Prime Digital Academy
Github Skills (14)
percentage9
calculator9
mongoose8
multi-page8
expressjs7
javascript6
react5
mongodb5
footprint5
nodejs5
visualize3
analytics2
twilio1
golang1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Blaze90809/react-app-percent-back
Feb 2018 - May 2023
This multi-page percent back application is written with React, Express, Node.js and MongoDB. This application helps cross-country skiers track their percentage back from race results.
Contributions:105 PRs, 160 pushes, 15 branches in 5 years 3 months
expressmongoosereactjsmongodbcross-country
Blaze90809/blazes-site-3.0
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
A static personal website.
Contributions:36 PRs, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 12 days
reactnextjs
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