RevUp

RevUp is a SaaS application that was created to supercharge the fundraising efforts of political campaigns, nonprofits, and academic institutions.

My responsibilities included:

• Built the front-end for RevUp’s Nonprofit product from the ground up utilizing React, Redux, Immutable.js, Enzyme/Jest, and Webpack.
• Collaborated with UX Designer and Management to design a data-rich SaaS application that was elegant, intuitive, and performant.
• Planned projects, managed sprints, and delivered on several key initiatives.
• Mentored junior developers with a focus on building confidence, encouraging leadership, and advocating for exceptional code quality.

Gazelle Trade-In

Gazelle's Trade-In site is a Ruby on Rails app that allows visitors to sell or recycle their used electronics. As a front-end developer on the project, I worked to modernize the app utilizing React, Bootstrap, and Sass.

My responsibilities included:

• Replaced legacy, unstructured JS with highly structured and maintainable React apps.
• Added JavaScript testing to project utilizing Jasmine.
• Implemented a modern design system using Sass.
• Retrofitted existing pages, using Bootstrap, to standardize views and improve maintainability.
• Improved accessibility of application through enforcing coding standards and best-practices.

Leonid Chindelevitch

Leonid is a professor of Computer Science at Simon Frasier University. He requested that I design and develop his portfolio, so that he could share his work with the world.

His Portfolio Features:

• A fully responsive, clean, and non-distracting design.
• Clean and well organized code that adheres to the most modern web standards including HTML5 and CSS3.
• Google Maps API that will allow visitors to easily find his lab.
• Social media links that will drive visitors to his presence on LinkedIn.

buy.gazelle.com

As a Software Engineer II for Gazelle, I served as the lead developer for a reCommerce site that does $3.5 million in sales per month.

My responsibilities included:

• Developed the front-end for a reCommerce platform built on Bigcommerce.
• Increased engagement and conversion rate through A/B testing, utilizing Optimizely.
• Improved site performance to enhance the UX, especially for mobile users.
• Integrated Gulp into the workflow to improve code quality and speed up the development process.
• Updated build system to enable the use of ES6 and Sass.

Stride Rite

As a front-end developer for Stride Rite shoes, I was responsible for managing and updating a major eCommerce website built on Demandware.

My responsibilities included:

• Developing interactive features for desktop and mobile, using JavaScript, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
• Coding the interactive features, including interactive carousel widgets and custom RSS feeds.
• Re-designing/developing the site to improve the UX and performance for mobile users.
• Refactoring CSS, using Sass, to reflect mobile-first design principals.
• Working with their designers, developers, and site-managers to rebrand the platform for fall 2015.

Kayak Guatemala

KayakGuatemala.com is a WordPress site that was created to help prospective customers discover the possibilities for vacationing on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.

However, despite its great design, the site suffered from low traffic, and subsequently, low conversions. I took the following steps to improve the website's performance and SEO:

• Installed a CDN (Content Delivery Network).
• Improved website speed through asset delivery optimization and image compression.
• Added unique meta titles and descriptions for each page.
• Setup Google Analytics and Google Search Console (GSC).
• Restructured site URLs and submitted sitemap to GSC.