Summary
Dakota Martinez is a versatile web developer and educator with 11 years of experience building responsive UIs and RESTful APIs while training the next generation of software engineers. Comfortable across vanilla JavaScript, React, Rails, and PostgreSQL, Dakota has designed curricula and delivered lectures for cohorts of up to 100 students, streamlined instructor tooling with GitHub templates, and led pre-internship bootcamps from remote locations. Currently applying domain knowledge to provide high-quality human feedback for AI training, they evaluate and craft prompts for coding-related models across many languages. A former sound engineer and active musician, Dakota brings creative problem-solving and a collaborative mindset to engineering teams, with a knack for turning complex concepts into practical, teachable examples.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Developer Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Developer Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music at Pitzer College
HTML CSS JavaScript jQuery Ruby Ruby on Rails AngularJS, HTML CSS JavaScript jQuery Ruby Ruby on Rails AngularJS at Codecademy Labs
Full Stack Web Developer Track Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Developer Track Computer Software Engineering at Flatiron School
N/A Psychology/Political Science/Music, N/A Psychology/Political Science/Music at Santa Monica College
English, Spanish, Swedish, html, css, javascript, jquery, angularjs, ruby on rails, php, ruby