Stack Developer Software Engineer
Resume:
Nathan Foster(React / Python)
ad20th@r.postjobfree.com
Fairhaven, MA
Summary
A dedicated front-end software engineer with +9 years of freelancing and professional engineering experience in website and mobile app development.
Focused on designing and implementing reactive JavaScript SPA applications mostly using React with Python/Django backend.
A fast-learner, problem-solver and detail-oriented programmer.
Core Skills: React, Redux, Next.js, Python, Django, AWS
Experience
Senior Full Stack Engineer
SiliconMint, 05/2021 - Present
Architected and built a frontend application using React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS and Storybook.
Planned and implemented a multi-year migration from a PHP application to React, Next.js, Django and Microservice
Participated in code review and team design sessions.
Took part in updating the website using A/B testing, resulting in an 18% increase number of monthly users.
Worked with team leads to plan initiatives and help architect services.
Implemented a test strategy in Jest and React Testing Library, resulting in test coverage of 96% of all client code.
Interviewed multiple candidates a month to help scale our engineering team.
Senior Frontend Engineer
CodeStringers, 5/2018 - 5/2021
Focused team efforts on testing to improve code reliability as measured by increased code coverage and decreased error rate.
Created APIs and defined OpenAPI schemas, generated specifications using DjangoREST framework features.
Recommend and implement performance improvements, resulting in a 26% increase of loading speed.
Wrote unit tests, integration tests, e2e tests for APIs, React components and the application using Python, Jest, React Testing Library and Cypress.
Planned and implemented GraphQL integration and architecture and built microservices.
Participated in code review and team design sessions.
Full Stack Developer
instinctools, 09/2013 - 04/2018
Maintained PHP/CodeIgniter-based legacy code base and rebuilt using React/Django stack.
Translated wire framed designs into rich, responsive pixel-perfect website pages.
Improved performance of customer facing platforms by identifying rendering bottlenecks through using developer profiler and refactoring legacy codebase. Sped up 25%.
Reduced code duplication by using front end design patterns and style guides to keep the code DRY.
Delivered simple design and implementation with a focus on end user behavior.
Worked on effective client-side scripting focusing on reducing the server load.
Implemented user-facing homepage with Angular, Bootstrap, increasing promotion email sign-up rate by over 7%.
Education
Bachelor of Science: Computer Science, 2013
University of Technology Malaysia: 2009 - 2013
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