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Denny Shimkoski

Denny Shimkoski

CHARLOTTE,NC

Summary

Highly experienced full stack developer familiar with wide range of programming utilities and languages. Collaborative team player with excellent technical abilities and more than 25 years of real world experience.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Consultant

Pinnacle Solutions Group
08.2022 - 06.2024
  • Developed responsive UI components and screens using React and Redux
  • Wrote client side framework for PDF report generation.

Lead Software Development Engineer

NDTC
08.2020 - 12.2022
  • Created and maintained development environments and deployment processes
  • Used API integrations with Drip, Google, and Salesforce
  • Developed features for high volume website.

Web Developer 6

Wells Fargo
07.2014 - 10.2019
  • Lead developer for multiple UI projects in hybrid applications
  • Developed UI modules using React, Redux, jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3

VP; Lead Consultant - Tech App Engineer

Bank of America
07.2012 - 07.2014
  • Lead UI effort for multiple initiatives as tech application engineer
  • Developed standalone UI modules utilizing Freemarker, jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3
  • Lead development for an accessible jQuery UI carousel widget and a deal finder Facebook application using jQuery, RequireJS, and AmplifyJS
  • Responsible for creating a custom msys-based UI console to automate routine front-end development and debugging tasks
  • Included multiple batch files and custom scripts written in Bash, Node and PhantomJS
  • Mentored junior front-end developers.

Web Presentation Architect

Ally Financial Inc.
03.2012 - 07.2012
  • Developed front-end components for the external website using HAML, Sass, Javascript, jQuery, jQuery UI, Mustache, Jasmine, and Cucumber
  • Built an advanced tabs widget with a promise-based API, AJAX prefetch, active tab validation, swappable page state management, multiple animation strategies, and several display configurations (horizontal, vertical, tree)
  • Wrote a form widget with advanced validation and internationalization capabilities
  • Developed a serialization format to share form definitions across client and server code

Senior Full Stack Web Developer

Red Ventures
08.2010 - 02.2012
  • Wrote a site tracker to collect SEO-related metrics from scraped web data and popular web services, such as SEOmoz, Majestic, etc., to monitor the health of 500+ websites
  • Developed a content management system for websites based on geographic locations
  • Currently live and serving hundreds of thousands of pages every day
  • Developed a drag and drop modular dashboard system using jQuery, jQuery UI, PHP, and MySQL
  • Supported concurrent user edits via optimistic offline locks and visual differencing
  • A whitelist-based proxy was developed to handle cross domain requests
  • Client-side deferrers were used for loading shared resources
  • Wrote an XML-driven application flow controller that allowed application screens to be decoupled from display logic
  • This technology was used to A/B test different cart flows
  • Featured graphviz visualization capabilities for debugging and communication purposes
  • Developed reports using PHP, MySQL, jQuery, flot, jqplot, and highcharts.

Web Developer

Triton Digital Media
03.2008 - 08.2010
  • Co-developed a web platform serving hundreds of radio stations
  • Developed a modular layout management system and offline transactional caching system for high volume websites
  • Featured a drag and drop user interface, stylesheet editor, and module versioning
  • Developed a tool for the administration and display of single elimination tournaments
  • Supported NCAA-style winner selection contests and "battle of the bands" vote-driven rounds
  • Added parallel bulk send functionality to existing email marketing system, increasing send rates by more than 400%
  • Further increased performance by porting a bounced mail processor from Perl to C++ and writing C++ scripts to process incoming ARF spam complaints.

Lead PHP Full Stack Developer

Independent Contractor
03.2007 - 03.2008
  • Developed a sophisticated survey and analysis tool with PDF reporting for a management consulting services company
  • Wrote a REST client for a security firm's account provisioning process, including a shopping cart component that interfaced with authorize.net
  • Developed multi-screen message scheduler for a large investment firm that built Flash presentations dynamically using PHP, MySQL, MTASC, and swfmill.

PHP Programmer

Maxaware, LLC
07.2006 - 03.2007
  • Developed a cross-browser drag and drop resource scheduling component
  • Wrote data migration scripts
  • Performed basic system administration tasks

Webmaster/Network Administrator

Hamilton Fish Institute
07.1999 - 07.2006
  • Developed a PHP/MySQL CMS
  • Lead search engine optimization efforts
  • Lead information architecture meetings.

Education

No Degree - Computer Science; Math

George Mason University
Fairfax, VA

Skills

  • PHP development
  • Laravel & Symfony framework
  • React - Javascript, Typescript
  • MySQL database management
  • API integration abilities
  • Web Accessibility
  • Responsive design

Timeline

Staff Consultant

Pinnacle Solutions Group
08.2022 - 06.2024

Lead Software Development Engineer

NDTC
08.2020 - 12.2022

Web Developer 6

Wells Fargo
07.2014 - 10.2019

VP; Lead Consultant - Tech App Engineer

Bank of America
07.2012 - 07.2014

Web Presentation Architect

Ally Financial Inc.
03.2012 - 07.2012

Senior Full Stack Web Developer

Red Ventures
08.2010 - 02.2012

Web Developer

Triton Digital Media
03.2008 - 08.2010

Lead PHP Full Stack Developer

Independent Contractor
03.2007 - 03.2008

PHP Programmer

Maxaware, LLC
07.2006 - 03.2007

Webmaster/Network Administrator

Hamilton Fish Institute
07.1999 - 07.2006

No Degree - Computer Science; Math

George Mason University
Denny Shimkoski