Experience

Working for myself to practice core business and leadership skills, client management, and keep up to date on relevant technology.

Using Node.js, Express, and Typescript, wrote an application for a client that would plug into any e-commerce checkout process as an iframe and provide loan origination functionality as a payment option to the user.
Provided a security audit for a small hedge fund who sought safety improvements to their client portal.
Built and currently maintain an ecommerce-like wholesale website for a hop grower and distributor on Wordpress with full-featured product listing and display pages, but with no direct-to-consumer functionality.

Primarily worked with Magento, AWS, Docker, PHP, SQL, Python, Ansible, and JavaScript.

Created a custom GraphQL endpoint and rebuilt the cross-sell UI component to load data asynchronously, reducing Product Display Page load times by up to 8%.
Integrated Twilio’s Customer Data Platform into the Magento application, tracked over 20 custom events, and used Terraform/Ansible to create an AWS Redshift data warehouse.
Responded to a serious website incident during peak Black Friday sales by provisioning multiple replica databases in AWS to distribute SQL read requests and restore site functionality after 2 hours of downtime.

Primarily worked with Magento, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Vagrant, PHP, JavaScript.

Restructured production Varnish servers into a highly available cluster, tripling cache hit rates.
Used New Relic monitoring to plan optimization projects, resulting in over 30% reduction in certain page load times.
Designed a monitoring and alerting framework enabling engineers to collect metrics on 5 problematic sales/order states and notify the operations team through 3 different channels.

Primarily worked with Magento, WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Vagrant, and CSS.

Served as principal engineer for a client, including weekly meetings, managing deployments, collaborating with a project manager, and supporting other engineers.
Created a memcached adaptor for a WordPress project that reduced page load times by over 80%.
Implemented an immutable, highly available infrastructure and deployment strategy on AWS for two Magento clients.

Primarily worked with Magento, WordPress, ExpressionEngine, Drupal, Puppet, PHP, JavaScript, and CSS.

Completed a 40-hour Magento 2 course and passed the qualifying exam to certify Copious as a Magento 2 Trained Solutions Partner.
Wrote and defined steps for over 50 user checkout stories, and used Behat, Mink, and Selenium2 to test over 30 checkout cases.

Education

Epicodus | 2015
PHP/JavaScript/Drupal Intensive Bootcamp Course

The Evergreen State College | 2009–2013
Dual Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts