Nadya Primak

Currently writing open source code and helping partner developers as an Integration Engineer at Login.gov. Author of Foot in the Door: My Self Taught Journey Becoming a Software Engineer

Silver Spring MD Joined on Aug 9, 2018 primak.nadya@gmail.com http://www.nadyaprimak.com

Education

Bachelors in Visual Art with a Concentration in Comp Sci

Work

Integration Engineer at Login.gov

EducationSim

An Education Simulator Game in Phaser

JavaScript • 1 star

pet-shop-ether

A distributed pet adoption web app built for the ethereum blockchain

JavaScript • 1 star

hnefatafl

play the ancient viking game hnefatafl online

PHP

React, NodeJS, AngularJS, Angular 6, Javascript, SASS, HTML5, UX Design

Working on getting better with Ruby since that is the dominant language at Login.gov

Most recently I made a VR game called Nightcrawler VR Bowling which is on Steam. I also have a game on Itch.io called Education Matters

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Nadya Primak

Nov 1 '19

Getting Started as a Self-Taught Engineer

#beginners #codenewbie #career #books

2 min read

Nadya Primak

Mar 9 '21

Despite burnout and the plague Nadya coded

#wecoded

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Nadya Primak

May 26 '20

How to Build the Pattern Matching Game in Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice with Javascript

#gamedev #codenewbie #tutorial #javascript

9 min read

Nadya Primak

May 11 '20

Apps for Artists: Lets Build More of Them

#art #creative #artist #motivation

6 min read

Nadya Primak

Apr 30 '20

How to Build the Hunger Simulator in The Long Dark with Javascript

#gamedev #javascript #tutorial #codenewbie

8 min read

Nadya Primak

Apr 17 '20

Hydra Tutorial For Live Coding Visuals

#codenewbie #learning #beginners #javascript

8 min read

Nadya Primak

Apr 13 '20

Beginner P5JS Tutorial - A SpacyCloud Live Workshop Retrospective

#showdev #codenewbie #javascript #tutorial

8 min read

Nadya Primak

Apr 1 '20

What it Means to be a Creative Coder

#codenewbie #css #codepen #creativecode

6 min read

Nadya Primak

Mar 9 '20

Nevertheless, Nadya Coded 2020

#wecoded

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Nadya Primak

Feb 20 '20

Should senior software engineers be promoted to engineering managers?

#discuss #healthydebate

1 min read

Nadya Primak

Feb 13 '20

Work Culture Toxicity in Tech

#developer #programming #career #startup

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Feb 11 '20

Your Loudest Engineer is Not a Genius

#developer #programming #career #startup

5 min read

Nadya Primak

Feb 10 '20

What is a UI Developer?

#career #javascript #userexperience #codenewbie

4 min read

Nadya Primak

Apr 11 '20

How to Become a UI Developer

#career #programming

6 min read

Nadya Primak

Apr 12 '20

Thinking of Doing 100 Days Of Code? How About One Game A Month?

#challenge #codenewbie #100daysofcode #motivation

5 min read

Nadya Primak

Feb 27 '20

Making Games to Learn Programming with Pico-8

#gamedev #beginners #codenewbie #learning

4 min read

Nadya Primak

Feb 18 '20

My Indie Hacker Year In Review

#motivation #gamedev #blog #learning

7 min read

Nadya Primak

Nov 1 '19

Why you Should Submit your Game to a Local Event

#gamedev #career #beginners

4 min read

Nadya Primak

Sep 27 '19

Being a Programmer vs a Game Developer. How Much Money is Passion Worth?

#discuss #career #webdev #gamedev

5 min read

Nadya Primak

Sep 13 '19

New Job Imposter Syndrome

#discuss #career #impostersyndrome #newjob

6 min read

Nadya Primak

Aug 26 '19

Which MOOC has the best game development courses?

#gamedev #beginners

4 min read

Nadya Primak

Oct 24 '19

Dealing with Work Transitions in Tech

#career #hiring #motivation

4 min read

Nadya Primak

Oct 24 '19

Pitfalls in Working with a Game Publisher

#gamedev #codenewbie #career

5 min read

Nadya Primak

Jul 25 '19

How the Tech Industry Discourages Multi-Passionate Folks

#webdev #techculture #hiring #beginners

5 min read

Nadya Primak

Jul 3 '19

Any Cons to Specializing in a Front End Framework?

#frontend #javascript #webdev #angular

4 min read

Nadya Primak

Jun 5 '19

What Makes a Tech-First Company?

#discuss #companyculture #startupculture

2 min read

Nadya Primak

May 25 '19

Why are developers still using this legacy framework?

#discuss #angular #webdev #frontend

1 min read

Nadya Primak

May 13 '19

UX Meetings: You're (probably) doing it wrong

#ux #userexperience #productdevelopment #design

3 min read

Nadya Primak

May 3 '19

Are you a multi-passionate developer?

#discuss

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Apr 24 '19

Exploring the State of the Dapps (Distributed Applications)

#blockchain #learning #beginners #tutorial

3 min read

Nadya Primak

Apr 19 '19

Making an Emily Dickinson Poetry Bot

#beginners #tutorial #machinelearning #learning

3 min read

Nadya Primak

Apr 18 '19

My Foray into Machine Learning with Style Transfer and Spell

#machinelearning #beginners #tutorial #learning

3 min read

Nadya Primak

Mar 8 '19

Four Years, Six Jobs Later... Nadya Still Codes

#wecoded

3 min read

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