TIMOTHY BLAKE
Boston,MA
Summary
Full-Stack Software Engineer currently interested Front-End focused opportunities.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Tech Lead/Senior Front-End Engineer
Grainger
01.2023 - Current
- Lead part of the development team of Grainger Insights, a tool that provides users with comprehensive data through advanced reporting tools and actionable dashboards.
- Mentor and onboard new team members and interns, facilitating their ramp-up on the codebase and promoting best development practices.
- Oversee software integrations, including creating architecture documentation and breaking down features into manageable tasks.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to support development efforts and ensure efficient project execution.
- Utilize a tech stack primarily consisting of Next.js and React, with additional contributions to API development using Kotlin/Java and data management with SQL/Snowflake, AWS. Dev-ops using Kubernetes, Hashicorp Vault, Github workflow and actions, etc.
L3 Senior Software Engineer Talent Strategy Engineering
Wayfair
08.2021 - 05.2022
- Contributed to an in-house tool responsible for tracking 5000 job posts and their approval chain
- Performed code refactoring database consolidation on an in-house tool for 3 months which gave the tool a 30% performance increase
- Continued as co-founder of front-end architecture group which included ramping up 4 teams on Typescript, React hooks, jest testing improvement, and refactoring.
L2 Software Engineer Talent Acquisition Engineering
Wayfair
09.2019 - 08.2021
- The team's front-end expert
- I encouraged React hooks and Typescript to the team and provided presentations/training to help ramp up engineers for these to become our new standard
- First engineer on a team of 20 to reach javascript proficiency which certified me to approve code to be deployed to production
- Set up infrastructure for our Internal careers website which helped our team move to Wayfair's new decoupled infrastructure
- Tech Lead for Wayfair labs projects and helped ramp up 12 new hires
- Investigated 2 Greenhouse integration projected to break down into tickets for the team
- Started Resilient Coders office hours and supported 5-10 newer hires weekly
- Built and Deployed 20 Brightspot modules/customizations when we moved to Brightspot CMS for www.aboutwayfair.com/careers
- Official mentor for 2 junior team members and helped with ramp up and teach best practices.
L1 Software Engineer Talent Acquisition Engineering
Wayfair
06.2018 - 09.2019
- Graduated from Wayfair Labs Training Program
- A 3-month program designed to ramp up by building 2 full-stack applications in Wayfair's codebase
- Built and deployed 30 React Components, created and populated 10 database tables, and built 20 PHP classes for Wayfair Careers Website
- Became a domain expert on the Wayfair Careers Website
- Learned how to use Apache Solr search engine and optimized search results by weight
- Discovered how to implement synonym searching which was a huge win for the team and our sites search performance
- Part of a team of 2 that implemented Sovren resume parser into Careers Site for pilot use.
Resilient Coders Bootcamp
Resilient Coders
- A 4-month immersive boot camp designed to teach software engineering in a fast-paced environment
- Built client websites using WordPress, Jekyll, PHP, SASS, and Javascript
- Knowledgeable of the latest Web 2.0 enhanced UI development (React, Angular and Vue) and responsive design frameworks (Bootstrap, Foundation, Material UI)
- Work collaboratively with Product Management, UX and Design to determine the best way to implement the UI design
- Experienced in iterative development and Agile scrum methodologies
- Experience with Google Analytics suite for tracking user behavior, site performance, acquisition patterns, and traffic flow.
Certified Master Automotive Technician
Multiple Companies
- Held several roles during my career as a master automotive technician
- I developed a passion for coding and decided to pursue a career as a software engineer
- I can go more into my career as an automotive technician if desired.
Skills
- NextJS
- Typescript
- React
- PHP
- Javascript
- Kubernetes
- Github Actions/ Workflow/ Pipelines
- Apache Solr
- Brightspot
- Google Analytics/Adobe Analytics
- Mobile Responsive
- Symfony
Timeline
Tech Lead/Senior Front-End Engineer
Grainger
01.2023 - Current
L3 Senior Software Engineer Talent Strategy Engineering
Wayfair
08.2021 - 05.2022
L2 Software Engineer Talent Acquisition Engineering
Wayfair
09.2019 - 08.2021
L1 Software Engineer Talent Acquisition Engineering
Wayfair
06.2018 - 09.2019
Resilient Coders Bootcamp
Resilient Coders
Certified Master Automotive Technician
Multiple Companies