Vance
Winstead
About|Experience|Projects
About
Hi! My name is Vance Winstead. I am a software engineer at Green Hills Software working on computer vision algorithms and data visualization tools. In the past, I have worked a number of full-stack applications including a website to help a local nonprofit manage volunteers and a mobile app to help spotlight minority owned businesses. Feel free to explore my work below.
Experience
Feb 2023 - Present
Green Hills Software
Built a computer vision system from the ground up, from the hardware mount for the cameras to the algorithms used to interpret the data. Developed networking and authentication features for a secure laptop product
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
Hack4Impact
Created multiple web applications for local nonprofits. Led multiple onboarding programs, teaching new members the MERN stack (MongoDB, React, Express, & Node) over 10 weeks via lectures and a personal project
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Viasat
Developed a company-wide intranet and successfully launched the beta version of the site. Developed both frontend and backend features including drag-and-drop editing, a content management system API, and graph database queries
Projects
KDTree
Implemented a KDTree in Java, with efficient implementations of nearest neighbor and bounded rectangle queries. Created a test suite using JUnit for basic unit testing. Completed as part of a Coursera algorithms course
Minority Market
Developed a mobile app to help promote engagement with local minority owned businesses. Developed as a senior project with sponsorship from AWS on a team of five using React Native and AWS Amplify
Hack4Impact Bootcamp
Ran a ten week long workshop to teach students the foundations of full stack web development using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, NodeJS). Created 10 lectures, complete with slide decks, live demos, and Kahoot quizzes, as well as a quarter-long project where students would build their own recipe website
City Farm SLO Volunteer Signup
Led development on a team of 7 of a webpage used by a local nonprofit to register new volunteers. Led standup meetings, translated requirements and designs to weekly tickets, and developed CI/CD for the project
Hospice of SLO Volunteer Platform
Developed a responsive web app on a team of nine for a local hospice. Created an interactive calendar where users could add, modify, and delete events. Created global state management on the application using React Redux
C Shell
Individually developed a C program that mimics the Unix Shell. In addition to performing basic tasks, the shell was also able to perform piping and input & output redirection using subproccesses and IPC. Created an automated end-to-end testing framework using bash
Match 3
The final project for the second computer science course I ever took. Developed a match 3 game in Java using Swing and AWT. The project incorporated object oriented programming, custom exceptions, and extensive documentation.