FULL STACK
ENGINEER

Skills

LANGUAGES

  • JavaScript
  • HTML/CSS
  • PHP
  • Node.JS
  • C/C++
  • SASS
  • Java
  • UE4 Blueprints
  • Ruby

TOOLS

  • Git
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • jQuery
  • DynamoDB
  • AWS
  • MongoDB
  • GraphQL

FRAMEWORKS

  • CodeIgniter
  • Angular
  • Vue.js
  • Phalcon
  • PhaserJS
  • SlimPHP
  • React.js
  • Jekyll
  • UE4

Work History

SOFTWARE ENGINEER / MANAGER

Studies Weekly 2004—2018

  • Co-wrote the core foundations of a PHP web service that’s been in service for over 7 years.
  • During the formative years of the company, I was responsible for all foundational in-house tools, including design, deployment, testing, and maintenance. The company has grown year over year to become a 30-million-dollar company.
  • Conceptualized, proposed, and implemented a system that allowed a the company to perfectly align audio with a text transcript for follow-along highlighting during playback. This feature became one of the most effective selling points of the product line.
  • Designed and implemented the foundations of a warehouse management system that is still in full service today.
  • Designed and implemented tools for crowdsourcing writing work. What previously took the company years to write took the crowdsourcing program weeks, significantly increasing the company's revenue stream.
  • Gamified the company's products by leading a team in developing an interactive isometric game for rewarding students for their academic progress.
  • Designed and built a presidential mock voting platform than successfully served hundreds of thousands of students within a window of only a few hours, while maintaining performant real-time analytics.

FREELANCE FULL STACK DEVELOPER

EdTech Games 2018—PRESENT

  • Responsible for fleshing out an existing Angular website with Ruby backend, adding new features and refactoring existing ones.
  • Re-implementing multiple API endpoints, increasing responsiveness on customer facing reports by shaving nearly a minute off of load time.
  • Designing and implementing an internal CRM in collaboration with the CEO and sales team, allowing the effective tracking of customers, leads, and sales.

OWNER / SOLE EMPLOYEE

Totally Legitimate LLC 2017—PRESENT

  • Using multiple AWS technologies, I designed and built a robust, easily scaled user authentication system for an in-development open world multiplayer game.
  • Built many extensions and customizations for the Xenforo platform.
  • Implemented a custom physics based jetpack system in Unreal Engine.
  • Surpassed client expectations with timely delivery, and suggested improvements.

FREELANCE FULL STACK DEVELOPER

InSight 2015—2016

  • Responsible for creating the online reporting systems of an innovative elementary student testing framework.
  • Prompt and effective communication with a distributed team of developers and stakeholders.

ZUMBA INSTRUCTOR

VARIOUS 2013—PRESENT

  • Arrange and choreograph playlists.
  • Teaching diverse classes of various sizes and skill levels.

Education

BACHELORS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY 2013—2015

MASTERS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY 2017—PRESENT

Feats of Strength

  • Presented at the OpenWest conference, detailing the design and implementation of a raycasting pseudo-3d engine in Javascript.
  • Built a fully functioning compiler and virtual machine in Javascript.
  • Eagle Scout. I was told this would be great for resumes during the years I spent earning it...