GARRETT AMIDON
Portland, OR ***** 916-***-****
garrettamidon.me *************@*****.***
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Passionate about Developing & Ensuring High Quality Coding Solutions Adaptive and enthusiastic with focus on creating reliable and efficient applications. Cultivate algorithmic thinking and problem solving, providing best possible solutions to meet project needs. Goal-oriented team player who excels at analyzing code written by others and providing quality feedback. Thrive at communicating ideas and being thorough on every project. TECHNICAL SKILLS
Databases SQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, PostGreSQL
Languages /
Frameworks
JavaScript, ReactJS, HTML, PHP, CSS, Angular, C++, C, Java, Springboot, Node.js, Protractor, TestCafe, Codecept, Webdriver, Jest, Maven, Grunt Writing Latex, Microsoft Word, Google Doc
Editors Vim, Notepad++, Visual Studio, WebStorm, IntelliJ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CDK GLOBAL, Portland, OR
Software Engineer 1 2018
Supported engineer and user community through coding, testing and research activities. Identified best practices, test scenarios and appropriate toolsets.
● Developed new user interface (UI), allowing users to see and perform actions on archived media, supporting company monetization and control of data objectives.
● Conducted research on wide variety of testing frameworks and created webpage, documenting findings and defining best-use cases and practices, improving engineer performance.
● Created tests, utilizing Jest for unit, Testcafe for regression and Cypress for integration testing, ensuring functional, compatible and reliable applications before going into production. Software Engineer Intern June – August 2017
Provided tests to ensure production code was reliable and working properly. Created documentation for future developers to reference when creating and running automated tests.
● Maximized m ain source of revenue, authoring automated testing suites for UI, validating dealer payment plans and preserving transaction data.
● Established test cases to analyze payment services back-end, ensuring accuracy of processing requests.
● Participated in week-long hackathon, presenting UI prototype, demonstrating sentiment analysis between service support personnel and customer interactions, providing management with results used for improving customer support and increasing customer satisfaction. GARRETT AMIDON *************@*****.*** PAGE TWO
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, Corvallis, OR
Computer Science TA 2015 – 2016
Coordinated teaching assistant activities for CS162 – Introduction to Programming class.
● Worked independently, critiquing student assignments and labs, providing improvement feedback supporting best coding practices.
● Accelerated student understanding of key programming concepts, evaluating programs and challenging students to explain coding, run and compile time understanding.
● Conducted weekly student help sessions, addressing complex curriculum questions and providing assistance for improving work products, increasing student grades. EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR