
Senior Software Engineer
Heather Vandervecht
Work Experience
Opencare
Mar, 2020 - Current
Pivotal Software, Inc
May, 2019 - Feb, 2020
With a focus on TDD and pair programming, at Pivotal I worked primarily in Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Cloud Foundry to build and deploy products that helped internal team members with their day-to-day work. I also helped with the R&D phase for new products in order to determine the right technical solutions.
Nascent
May, 2017 - May, 2019
At Nascent I built isomorphic web applications using React, Redux, Node, and Express. I also used CI/CD services to manage deployments. In addition to growing and sharpening my skills as a full stack developer, I worked with leadership and clients to assess and explore upcoming features and projects and helped mentor my teammates.
Blunt
Jan, 2017 - Nov, 2017
With a desire to create unique work, Blunt was created. Like most (all) startup companies, I wore many hats on a very small team! To name the keys ones, I was the developer, project manager, and point of contact for clients. One highlight of what I was responsible for was learning how to research the best architectural solutions for projects. I handed Blunt fully over to my partner a little under a year after starting it so I could focus more fully on my full-time role.
Filament Creative Inc.
Apr, 2016 - Apr, 2017
As the lead developer, my main role was to engage with clients and support and mentor the members of my team. I also spearheaded the creation of a development process that improved the workflow and introduced new technologies into projects. I built with WordPress, React, and ExpressionEngine on this team, as well as learned the basics of servers.
Resolution Interactive Media
Dec, 2014 - Apr, 2016
Predominantly front end work, I also designed several websites and was the back end developer in other projects when possible. I worked with WordPress, Drupal, PyroCMS, and Jekyll (with prose.io integrated for content management). I helped improve the company-wide development process and was front end lead on several projects.
RedRhino Inc.
Jul, 2013 - Dec, 2014
My job at RedRhino consisted of creating websites and providing support for existing sites. I worked mostly with WordPress or hardcoded sites, and did both back end and front end. Additionally, a large portion of my time was spent doing production work for designers, and providing feedback to the designers as to best practices when designing for the web.
Education
Fanshawe College Interactive Media Design and Production, Media
Skills
- Web App Development
- React
- JavaScript
- UX/UI
- Node
- API Development
- Kotlin
- Spring Boot
- A11Y
- Mentorship
- QA
Front End Web Developer
Deborah Chan
Work Experience
CBC
Dec, 2014 - Current
Collaborating with stakeholders from CBC Sports, News, and Radio in a fast-paced Agile environment on numerous large-scale applications.
- Supported CBC Sports desktop and mobile sites, including the Pan Am Games site and the roll-out of a global redesign and rebrand in 2015
- Worked on a small team with CBC News to extend and support the Elections application (an SPA in Knockout.JS) for the Saskatchewan and Manitoba provincial elections
- Lead front-end developer for a new internal tool for CBC Radio producers, built with React and Redux
Concordia University (Linguistics Department)
Mar, 2017 - Current
Creating a test-style single page application for a linguistics experiment.
- Built on React, Redux, and Firebase
- Work in progress: https://github.com/debchn/mvmt-memory
E-cology
Dec, 2014 - Sep, 2015
Worked with McMaster's electronic medical record application, OSCAR, to transform its medical forms to suit a methadone clinic in Vietnam.
- Implemented English to Vietnamese translations with jQuery
- Created new, unique forms for the clinic using jQuery and Bootstrap
OSCAR McMaster
Jul, 2007 - Aug, 2011
Recurring summer job building the prototype for https://www.know2act.org/ and assisting with front-end work for the main OSCAR application
- Helped to build an MVP for "Know2Act," a forum for clinicians to share information on drugs and other treatments
- Built with Ruby on Rails on a legacy PostgreSQL database
- Connected to OSCAR through XML-RPC
- Also assisted with the creation of "e-forms" using HTML and JavaScript
Education
HackerYou
9-week front-end development bootcamp
University of Toronto
Sep, 2008 - Aug, 2014
With minors in English and Music History & Culture
Skills
- JavaScript
- React.js
- HTML
- CSS
- Git
Senior Front End Engineer
Tri Noensie
Work Experience
Indeed
Nov, 2018 - Current
Building and maintaining internal front end developer tools.
- Contributed to a redesign initiative for a Chrome Extension for an internal product.
- Maintained an visual testing tool.
- Contributed to a front end error logging tool.
- Contributed to miscellaneous internal front end developer tools.
Tastemade
Sep, 2014 - Sep, 2018
Various web development for customer-facing and internal-facing web applications.
- Developed and maintained Tastemade website backend using Node, Express.js, Heroku, AWS Lambda.
- Developed and maintained Tastemade website frontend using HTML/CSS/JS(ES6), React, Styled Components, SCSS, and Zurb Foundation.
- Developed Tastemade website frontend build tooling using NPM scripts, Grunt, Webpack, and Babel.
- Managed frontend monitoring using Pingdom and Bugsnag.
- Managed backend ops using New Relic, PagerDuty, Travis CI, AWS CloudFront, AWS S3.
- Integrated email service using Iterable. Previously used: Mailchimp, Mandrill, and Postup.
TripCase, Sabre
Jun, 2012 - Aug, 2014
Web development for the TripCase mobile and web apps.
- Built cross-platform native travel app using PhoneGap, HTML/CSS/JS, Backbone, and SCSS.
- Managed frontend ops using NPM, Bower, Grunt, Gulp, RequireJS.
- Managed client app tests using Jasmine.
- Developed APIs for client app using Ruby on Rails.
ARM Data Quality Office, CIMMS/University of Oklahoma
May, 2009 - Jul, 2011
- Web development for meteorological data visualization web application using HTML, CSS, LESS, Javascript, jQuery, and Python.
- API development for meteorological data using IDL and NetCDF.
OU Web Communications
Jun, 2010 - Dec, 2010
Web Development for various websites for the university using HTML, CSS, Javascript, and jQuery.
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas
2012 - 2013
Dallas County Community College
University of Oklahoma
2007 - 2010
Front End Developer
Emmanuel Akinde
Work Experience
SportCompass, Denmark
Sep, 2019 - Current
Use SportCompass to find out which bars are showing your favourite games and the first beer is always on the house. SportCompass isn’t just a website, but a thriving, friendly community of football fans. Go to one of our events alone, and you’ll leave with new friends.
Telios Support Services
Sep, 2018 - Oct, 2019
I joined Tssdevs as a Lead Frontend Developer to work on Percayso's (A Client) systems and other TSS Systems.
- Requirements gathering and specifications
- Built responsive, accessible and performant UIs using a modern technology stack. (Basically Reactjs and GraphQL)
- Collaborate, support and work hand-in-hand with backend, QA, design and product colleagues.
- Write clean, maintainable and testable code.
- Contributed to the change of an existing application to React.
PlatformLead, Ibadan.
Aug, 2018 - Jan, 2019
I joined PlatformLead as a Frontend Developer with the goal to develop FindThePro; a web app that connects businesses and potential clients within a local community through the power of search. Built with React and Redux.
- Built the client-side application with high quality, clean, testable and maintainable code for mobile, desktop and tablets
- Participated in and contributing to technology, architecture, workflow and design decisions.
- Worked on data visualisation with D3.js
- Unit and Functional testing with Jest and Component testing with Enzyme
FemmeBnB, Canada.
Apr, 2018 - Jul, 2018
Joined Femmebnb as a React Developer developing its Frontends in an Agile Team.
- Developing new user-facing features using ReactJS and Redux
- Building reusable components with principles of component-driven architecture and front-end libraries for future use
- End to End testing
- Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
Startup Studio, Victoria Island.
Jun, 2017 - Mar, 2018
I worked has a Frontend Developer at Startup Studio. By building solutions with React, React-Native and VanillaJS.
- Write Javascript, HTML and CSS code using advanced frameworks
- Redesigned and dramatically simplified overly-complex user interfaces, while preserving all functionalities
- Work on the implementation of high-leverage features to optimize UX and conversion rates
- Single Page Application and Server Side Rendering development
- Automated frontend testing
Konga Online Shopping Mall, Ikeja.
Dec, 2016 - May, 2017
I worked in a team that builds the shipping and logistics system. Tech stack: Backend Services in PHP, NodeJS/Express, Frontend Apps in Angular and React.
- Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team.
- Refactor, optimize and improve the existing codebase for maintenance and scale.
- Utilize backend data services and contribute to increasing existing data services API.
- Use test-driven development to ensure feature quality.
- Interface with customer and internal teams to gather requirements and develop software solutions.
- Document the development process, architecture, and standard components.
Fiverr
May, 2016 - Dec, 2017
I worked as a Freelance Javascript Developer on fiverr, by building solutions with React, React-Native and Nodejs.
- Did plenty of freelance work with web technologies (React, React-Native and Nodejs)
- Implementing UI/UX designs and mock-ups
- Implemented automation tasks using Grunt and Gulp
- Learnt the AWS stack
- Worked with clients from all over the world
Education
Obafemi Awolowo University
Mar, 2012 - Feb, 2017
Took courses like:
Object Oriented Programming, Assembly Language,
Data structures and Algorithm, Automata Therory,
Compilers, Human and Computer Interactions,
Project Management, Computer Architecture,
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing e.t.c
Also Contributed to the Developer's Community:
GDG OAU, Consonance, IEEE, WIE.
Projects
Gosquare
Feb, 2019 - Current
Gosquare is a logistics solution that tackles the problem of the delivery sector in due to human negligence and technology constraint, especially in Nigeria where there is a rapidly growing e-commerce industry, so Gosquare is bringing easy and convenient logistics services to everyone from restaurants, small businesses, and e-commerce stores.
Working on the Admin as a Frontend developer and React Native for the mobile.
AccelerateTV
Jan, 2018 - Jun, 2018
I was on a team building a Mobile App for Accelerate Tv with React Native, to help their users access there contents on the go. This project is sponsored by Access Bank in Nigeria, creating a platform where User can create a bank account on the Go.
CoachMe Online
Jan, 2019 - Mar, 2019
I was the React Native developer on the CoachMe Online project. On this app coaching brought to you where you need it, when you need it and how you need it. Certified and experienced coaches will coach you in real time in various areas like Life & Success; Business, Career, and Finance; Stress & Emotions and Relationships & Marriage.
DYSHR
May, 2018 - Dec, 2018
Dyshr is a meal restaurant discovery app for foos lovers that helps users decide where and what to eat. I am worked on the admin of this system and built it with react js.
Skills
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript(ES6 -ES7)
- PWA
- React.js
- ReactNative
- Redux
- GraphQL
- D3.js
- Firebase
- PHP
- Nodejs
- Bootstrap
- Linux
- SQL
- Git
- Jquery
- Sass
- Jest
- Mocha
- TypeScript
- Webpack
- Docker
- CircleCI
- Fastlane
- Styled Components
- CssModules
- Material-UI
Front End Web Developer & Designer
Casey Davis
Work Experience
RocketScience
Mar, 2014 - Aug, 2015
At Rocket Science, I worked with the creative director to
conceptualize and produce highly creative designs for local
clients such as Amway, as well as national consumer brands
such as Jamba Juice. Deliverables included identity and
branding design applied to print communication as well as
minor web/interactive design.
Stevens Advertising
Sep, 2014 - Jul, 2015
Stevens was an invaluable and crucial experience in
advancing my proficiency as a self-taught front-end
developer. At Stevens, I collaborated with two senior
developers as well as the creative director to see projects
through from start to finish, often assisting with the layout
and content creation for many client sites. On two occasions
I was given the responsibility of completing both design and
development for client websites,
The Image Shoppe
At The Image Shoppe, I frequently collaborate with our web
designer and senior developer to produce and maintain
websites built on both ExpressionEngine and WordPress.
This typically involves reproducing PSD mockups using
modern best-practices and tools with great consideration as
it pertains to cross-browser compatibility and technical SEO
requirements.
Education
Kendall College of Art and Design
Sep, 2012 - May, 2015
Mott Community College
Sep, 2009 - May, 2011
Skills
- HTML5, CSS3, SASS, jQuery, JavaScript, Basic PHP, Basic GIT/Version Control, Wordpress, ExpressionEngine, Wireframing/Prototyping, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch3, Flash
- CSS3
- SASS
- jQuery
- Novice JavaScript
- Novice PHP
- Basic GIT/Version Control
- WordPress
- ExpressionEngine
- Wireframing/Prototyping
- User Interface Design
- UX Design
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Sketch3
- Flash