Here are a few of the things I bring

Love for the Front End

Consider me an ambassador of the front end and your liaison to the DOM.

Modern JavaScript

The latest in the JavaScript language, frameworks, tooling, and more.

Clean, Maintainable Code

Documented and built on common patterns and best practices.

Idea to Implementation

From UX design and behavior to planning and code to delivery (and back 'round again).

Initiative and Ownership

Passion for quality UI drives me to identify problems and own the solution.

Cross-team Collaboration

Don't leave unexpected solutions on the cutting room floor!

These are some of my skills

Technical

Modern JavaScript, CSS (and preprocessors), and boring ol HTML
Web Browser APIs, dev tools, and perf profiling
Component-based, state-driven, declarative UI frameworks (vue.js, et al)
Data visualization with SVG and d3
Webpack, babel, eslint
Unit, integration, E2E testing (including BDD)
CI/CD with everyone's good friend Jenkins
Developing middle tier APIs (I love GraphQL)
Linux, vim, make, bash, docker, git
AWS CloudFront, S3, ECS, ECR, Route53, CloudWatch, and more!

Visual Design

Graphic design with InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
Animation and interaction design with Flash [deprecated lol]
General layout and design principles

Planning and Collaboration

Collaboration across product, design, and engineering
User-centered design thinking
Planning for incremental delivery (Agile/Scrum)
Rapid prototyping and communication with wireframes

This is my work experience

Pushnami

Frontend Architect

May 2021 - Present

Established a UI build, release, and bootstrap process, enabling QA to test arbitrary UI versions, and generally making releases more predictable and less scary
Spearheaded a major new UI feature from initial UX research and interviews to UI and API design and through multiple releases and user feedback. The process established here has set the bar for user-centered thinking for all new user-facing features
Introduced GraphQL as a middle tier, established the initial schema, and mentored on GraphQL best practices. A huge win here is that the API is more representative of the user’s mental model, but no changes were needed to the underlying data. I love GraphQL :)
Reduced costs for a massively scaled (and critical!) images api by balancing bytes served at the expense of CPU
Daily involvement with a whole host of AWS services like CloudFront, S3, ECS, ECR, EC2, Route53, Cloudwatch, and many others
Established (and evangelized!) E2E testing strategy

Infoblox

Staff Frontend Engineer,
UI Architect

February 2020 - April 2021

Architected, developed, lead a team, and deployed a micro front end loading platform for an existing monolithic UI application. Aside from developing the browser application, this included a large amount of deployment work involving AWS, Jenkins, spinnaker, helm, and Kubernetes.
Defined and developed an incremental migration path from the existing large web application UI to individual micro frontends. This was a huge success as we effectively replaced the foundation of our entire UI without affecting any of the (many) UI developers' day to day!

Zenoss

Senior Software Engineer

August 2014 - February 2020

Architected, planned, and developed the UI platform for the next evolution of Zenoss’s core product: Zenoss Cloud (https://www.zenoss.com/product). This included selection of UI frameworks, libraries, test frameworks, build tools, reusable component library, and broader concerns such as scalability and security.
Scoped, estimated, and planned implementation of UI features, balancing product, user, and technology requirements, ensuring that the resulting features fit neatly within the UI platform
Worked closely with product stakeholders to wireframe and prototype new features and ensure they align well with the broader UI architecture
Worked closely with back end engineers to design (and frequently implemented) GraphQL schemas which properly model the domain and providing maximum flexibility for queries
Mentored fellow engineers (some remote) through white boarding, conversation, and code review, often demonstrating the correct way to “cut with the grain” of a new library
Developed a variety of data visualization components using D3 and SVG
Designed and developed a number of one-off SPAs, with minimal oversight, and occasionally implemented backend services as needed
Served as an expert in web application development tools, libraries, frameworks, and best practices
Brought my passion for user-centered design thinking to just about every conversation, ensuring the end user encounters as little friction as possible

Phoxlights

IoT, C Developer

Personal Project

Developed a C lib for layered, keyframed, bitmap animation for use on the esp8266
Made use of the esp8266 wifi hardware to implement a binary message protocol over tcp
Wrote a nodejs tool to interface with the phoxlight binary message protocol

Telerik

Front End Developer

April 2013 - April 2014

Developed the JS client for a mobile application testing harness
Developed a nodejs server for connecting clients and proxying test automation commands
Used browser dev tools for debugging, performance profiling, and leak finding
Learned about both object oriented and functional programming paradigms

Halifax Media Group

Print/Digital Ad Designer,
Front End Developer

October 2008 - April 2013

Created print and digital ads using InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
Learned Flash and ActionScript, and designed and developed a large number of Flash ads
Took initiative in translating unique sales rep requests into new ad formats, producing new opportunities for revenue
Developed a new data driven ad type, enabling sales of ads which reflect customer inventory in real time
Designed and lead development of an order management SPA, reducing errors, and speeding up ad delivery