A green chilli with a curly stem and round silver glasses. This is supposed to represent Rita.

Rita Toussaint

Developer, Designer, Advocate

I have a flair for front-end but I also have skills to share in back-end development too! I spend a lot of my time sharpening my skills, attending networking events and workshops, volunteering, keeping my LinkedIn page up to date and building my portfolio site (psst - you're already here!).

I am currently looking for work!

Stack

  • Javascript
  • Python
  • Java
  • C++
  • SQL
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind
  • Bootstrap
  • PostGres
  • MongoDB
  • Cypress
  • Docker
  • Prometheus

Skills

  • French
  • Teaching
  • App Publishing
  • Neurodiversity Advocacy
  • Project Management
  • Figma
  • Canva

Projects

Halloween Hints

HTML, Bootstrap

Ritas black and orange halloween homepage. There is a picture of the 3 witches from MacScottishplay
Ritas black and orange halloween music page. There is a Spotify widget of Ritas very own halloween playlist.
Ritas black and orange halloween video games page.

This was the very first website that I built, before I had even started at CodeClan. I really enjoyed making this site as it's all about my favourite day of the year - Halloween!

NoteClan

Python, Flask, SQL

Noteclan home
Note home
Phone home
Phone home

This was my first project at CodeClan, inspired by my own struggles in booking rehearsal space for singing practice. This is a basic CRUD app with 90s-inspired styling.

furFinder

React, MongoDB

furFinder home
Cat carousel
Dog carousel
Admin
Popup

This was a group project written in React. It is a pretend animal adoption service designed to resemble Tinder. I was mainly responsible for the styling, writing up the animal database and writing the carousels which showed all available cats and dogs. My team and I got along extremely well, we were able to clearly and evenly divide up the tasks and we had fun!

Swansonator

React, REST API

Orange page with Ron Swanson in centre. A random quote from the character is featured below
Orange page with Ron Swanson in centre. A random quote from the character is featured below along with a keyword search.

I made this Ron Swanson quote generator one day over Christmas break to practice using RESTful APIs. The 'New Quote' button returns a new quote from the API and the search bar searches for quotes based on user input. I kept the styling simple to reflect the character. I had a lot of fun with this silly little project!

Disney+ Clone

React, Tailwind, Vite, Axios

The top of the Disney+ clone is shown. A slider component with big film posters goes along the top of the screen, all of which grow slightly on hover and provide a small blurb for each film.
The rest of the Disney+ clone is shown. A slider component with small film and TV posters goes along the top of the screen, all of which grow slightly on hover.
Each movie or show in the Disney+ clone can be clicked on. When clicked, each item displays another picture from the film or show and an overview upon a blue-indigo gradient. This example shows the overview for a Spiderman film.
Click here for a video demonstration!

Using React, Tailwind and Vite, I set out to make a simple copy of Disney's UI. I used TMDB's API to populate the page with films and TV Shows, though I wasn't able to show trailers for each as the API lacks videos. This project helped me to learn Tailwind and it is now my favourite styling framework!

Birthlink

Wordpress, Divi Builder, CSS

Birthlink home
Birthlinks donate page
Birthlinks history page

I was given this project by Scottish Tech Army. Birthlink were looking for someone to revamp their website design into something more modern and colourful. This project taught me the importance of working closely with clients.

STA Map

HTML, CSS, JS, GoogleMaps, AWS

A small screenshot of a black and white map with colourful markers
A small screenshot of a black and white map with colourful markers
A small screenshot of a black and white map with colourful markers

I was assigned this project by Scottish Tech Army for their website. Myself and a colleague were tasked with creating an interactive map which displayed all the non-profits and charities that STA helped and how many hours went into each project. The style of the map was created in Google Maps Platform and the logic of the widget was written with HTML, CSS and vanilla JS.

Testimonials

Rita is a dedicated employee. She is able to focus completely on a project she is working on, and sees it through to completion. I worked with her on a project supporting Neurodiversities, and she was a tireless presenter and advocate. Rita would be an asset to any organization.

Merilee Morales

Rita is an asset to any workforce looking to diversify. She brings the out of the box thinking that births trailblazing ideas. She is tenacious and takes any challenges in her stride. Rita is a pleasure to work with and is very mindful of the needs of those she works with.

S.G.

Rita's drive and passion was clear for all to see while working on and presenting projects to team members. Her technical and soft skills were a great benefit to all the teams she worked with. Rita is a big advocate and helped promote diversity within the work place and outside of it. Rita will be a huge asset for any team she joins.

John Donald

Rita is a highly enthusiastic and engaged team member. She proves her passion through the creativity she adds to her work. I respect Rita's honesty and the character that she brings to work. I wish Rita the best of luck in her future endeavours.

Tony Prasad

We have benefited enormously as a charity from Rita’s stickability and tenacity. We would not be where we are now without her expertise, commitment and follow through. I expect that she would be an asset to any employer as she has been for us.

Abbi Jackson, Birthlink