Detail-oriented, organized and meticulous engineer who excels at analyzing, prioritizing and completing tasks in a professional manner.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Lead
CommentSold
11.2021 - Current
(Laravel 6.X) (Ionic Framework) (Vue 3.X) (Typescript) Built and maintained a POS IOS app to allow customers to take in-store payments.
Optimized project efficiency by streamlining communication channels between cross-functional teams.
Enhanced product quality through meticulous peer reviews and rigorous testing protocols such as CI pipelines, Git actions, feature tests and cross team QA reviews.
Mentored junior engineers, fostering professional growth and improving overall team performance.
Led a team of engineers to meet aggressive deadlines, ensuring on-time delivery of high-quality products.
Created REST APIs to allow mobile and web applications to store and retrieve information on orders
Integrated with Stripe to allow store owners collect and transfer payments
Created Integrations with various dropshipping services via APIs and web-hooks to allow customers and store owners to have a seamless experience between placing, fulfilling and tracking orders.
Integrated with various shipping APIs to give store the best shipping rates.
Created APIs to allow third party companies to share their catalog of products with company shops allowing seamless integration of catalog searching and product fulfilling via webhooks and APIs
Created a searchable catalog of products using Laravel Scout and Elasticsearch (OpenSearch)
Used AWS Cloud services such as EC2, SQS, ECS, S3, and Rekognition to create scalable microservices
Improved engineering processes by implementing innovative automation strategies and techniques such as CI pipelines and Git actions.
Reduced production costs by identifying areas of improvement and implementing cost-effective solutions.
Led a team of engineers to meet aggressive deadlines, ensuring on-time delivery of high-quality products.
Collaborated with stakeholders (CEO, CTO, and CFO) to gather requirements and develop tailored engineering solutions that met business needs.
Drove innovation by researching emerging technologies, incorporating cutting-edge advancements into product designs.
Practiced a hybrid of Agile Scrum that helps engineers to focus on tasks but also meet stakeholder's ever changing deadlines.
Built and maintain various loyalty platforms using Laravel and Soap API structures.
Build custom Image recognition API endpoints for validating, monitoring, and mining information from various types of images using a custom OCR software
Built rapid promotion platform for large clients with even larger traffic with short deadlines using Laravel and
Used AWS Cloud services such as SES, RDS, EC2, SQS, DynamoDB
Built a multi-tenant CMS platform using Laravel and VueJS to rapidly create promotions and loyalty offers for large clients and their customers
Migrated legacy PHP application to Laravel framework
Modernized application to take advantage of newer technologies such as Elastic caches, AWS Dynamo DB, SQS, and SES
Reduced page loads by taking advantage of VueJS and Axios to pull data. Thus making those pages more dynamic and require less memory resources on page load.
Created secure scalable APIs that could be used by third-party companies, company's mobile app team and the main web application.
Optimized website performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks in code and database queries.
Enhanced user experience by designing and implementing responsive web applications.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions for complex client requirements.
Research and Development Engineer
Black Diamond IT Services
06.2016 - 05.2018
Responsible for updating legacy code to meet industry standards - Responsible for building a base system to jump start other projects which greatly reduce programming cost
Created dynamic and scalable Sass systems using PHP Laravel 5
Made major improvements to development work flow, including hybrid form of AGILE Scrum and integrating
PHP CI (continuous integration) to Bitbucket repositories
Responsible for transitioning MySql queries to no-sql models using Laravel
Enhanced application security by updating systems to session based on time, device, and IP
Created forms of monitoring, counting, and tracking query usages though out client sites
Created modular CMS packages for Laravel applications
Created reusable processes, components and tools that leveraged all projects, accelerating development progress.
Web Developer/Business Analyst
Randall-Reilly
01.2016 - 06.2016
Responsible for building a micro-system, that could allow sharing of modules through out multiple sites using PHP's composer package management
Created a centralize location for authenticating tokens via JWTAuth Tokens for multiple APIs
Created a website for monitoring any number of server's cronjob status in realtime by using Pusherjs and
PHP's Laravel event handling system
The site includes error status, time when thrown, and a visual backtrace of the error with coding snippets
Modularized a legacy system using PHP's composer so the modules can be use through various projects
Consistently met deadlines and requirements for all projects
Managed creative projects from concept to completion and implemented network security standards.
Software Developer
Assured Revenue Corporation
08.2014 - 12.2015
Created a database-driven dynamic web application using MYSQL Queries
Created and managed projects that increased company's revenue
Integrated with third-party APIs and created APIs for third-party usage using PHP's SoapClient Library
Created new systems while simultaneously maintaining legacy systems
Implemented company policies, technical procedures and standards for preserving the integrity and security of data, reports and access
Created a multi-tenant kiosk mobile web application, that could be loaded on to a IPad which would automate the leasing process for rental property tenants using Javascript's JQuery, Bootstrap, HTML, LESS, and PHP
Soware
Software Developer
Le Chef Amour’s Haute Cuisine
04.2013 - 08.2013
Primary responsibilities include design and development of mobile and desktop applications
Developed and tested new financial reporting system using Java Applications
Created a unique way to keep track of financial and business records using Java applications.
Software Engineer
National Eco Car Program
07.2012 - 02.2013
Founder and Team Leader of the development of Touch sensitive entertainment system
Developed and tested the new inventory management system using C++
Modified and tested order processing system using C++.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Mississippi State University
Starkville, MS
2015
Skills
PHP
JavaScript
Laravel
Computer Science
Data Analysis
Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
Android
Development
IOS development
Continuous Integration
JIRA
Design thinking
Test Automation
Stakeholder Communication
Technical reporting
Java
HTML
MYSQL
HTML5
XHTML
SASS
LESS
CSS
VUE 2X
VUE 3X
VUEX
Angular
TypeScript
REST APIs
Queues
AWS
AWS CDK
Lint
Prettier
Quote
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. But you will have to work.
William Shatner
Timeline
Engineering Lead
CommentSold
11.2021 - Current
Senior Web Application Developer
KAR Global
08.2019 - 10.2020
Engineering Lead
Brandmovers
05.2018 - 11.2021
Research and Development Engineer
Black Diamond IT Services
06.2016 - 05.2018
Web Developer/Business Analyst
Randall-Reilly
01.2016 - 06.2016
Software Developer
Assured Revenue Corporation
08.2014 - 12.2015
Software Developer
Le Chef Amour’s Haute Cuisine
04.2013 - 08.2013
Software Engineer
National Eco Car Program
07.2012 - 02.2013
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Mississippi State University
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