Highly skilled Frontend Engineer with over 12 years of experience.

Chris Beal

Senior Frontend and Blockchain Developer

*********@*****.*** • Calgary, Alberta T2E 5S3

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-beal-41874584/

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Frontend Developer, 02/2019 to 7/2024

Bongarde – Penticton, British Columbia

Managed and Maintained responsive and accessible web applications utilizing React, Node.js, and Next.js.

•Architected productive web applications to visualize data from over 80 schools, communicating critical education information to more than 1M users.

•Collaborated with a team of scientists and researchers to create user-friendly interfaces for over 7 complex environmental data sets, enhancing public understanding of climate change issues and increasing user engagement by 45%.

•Optimized web application performance to handle large-scale environmental data visualization of up to 10 million data points, improving load times and reducing bounce rates, enhancing overall user experience for an average of 50,000 daily visitors.

•Monitored and updated main websites, implementing responsive design principles, ensuring seamless access to critical information for mobile users, which now account for 45% of total traffic.

Frontend Developer, 10/2017 to 01/2019

Lark Health – Mountain View, CA

Established cutting-edge communication platform that allowed users to connect, chat in real time, with features like file sharing, video conferencing, and secure authentication mechanisms.

•Partnered closely with 15 members to develop company's healthcare system using React, Redux, Electron, Node.js, Express, and MySQL.

•Translated 9 UI/UX design wireframes into actual code using Next.js 13, React, three.js and ensured smooth operation of company infrastructure components resulting speed increase by 35%.

•Led Agile development methodologies, including daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospective meetings for 2 years.

•Optimized application performance and refined UI responsiveness through code optimization and caching strategies by 10% using React hook, Jest, CDN links.

•Conducted code reviews and provided guidance and mentoring to 6 junior developers.

•Successfully deployed 6 applications on AWS and performed continuous integration and deployment using Docker.

Frontend Developer, 01/2015 to 10/2017

LoanDepot – Lake Forest, CA

Implemented modernization of legacy codebases by migrating to modern React architectures. Through this effort, improved maintainability and performance of these projects by 45%.

•Published custom 2 plugins, 15 templates and functions for MERN/MEAN stack applications and reviewed code, debugged problems, and corrected issues.

•Translated requirements into responsive web apps utilizing React, Next.js, Electron, MongoDB, Express.js, and Node.js for 22 websites and enhanced using Amazon Web Services, Terraform, CI/CD, Gitlab.

•Leveraged elastic search for one large distributed computing system, large scale design, real time data processing, data storage, ML, and AI to address challenging dataset problems using Python.

•Used Node.js, ORM and SQL, NoSQL to develop and manage databases and executed comprehensive unit and integrated testing using Jest, Enzyme, and Jasmine for 3 years.

Frontend Developer, 05/2013 to 01/2015

North Shore Signs & Graphics – Calgary, Alberta

Coordinated closely with 2 designers, 10 product managers, and QA teams to ensure delivery of high-quality software.

•Designed 4 new user interactive landing pages using React, Next.js, HTML, XHTML, and CSS with web design expertise.

•Developed B2B, B2C system for individual customers and businesses to make transactions and elevated design resulting in 80% boost in conversion rate.

•Created onboarding 4 web apps for customers to make transactions secure and safe using React, Vue.js, Node.js and PHP.

•Managed frontend website development using WordPress, HubSpot, and other editing software.

•Created over 12 responsive application UIs using React (ES6), Electron, Node.js and functional components libraries with support for switching between Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud APIs, Terraform.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Hong Kong College of Technology – Hong Kong

9/2009 to 2/2013

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

•Programming Languages: JavaScript (10 years), TypeScript, Python (4 years), Java, Go, PHP, Solidity, Rust

•Frontend Technologies: React (8 years), Electron, Redux, HTML (10 years), CSS3, SASS/SCSS, Next.js, Angular, React Native, Vue.js, Nuxt.js

•Backend Technologies: Node.js, Express.js, PHP, Spring Boot, Laravel, Nest.js, CI

•CSS Frameworks: MUI, TailwindCSS, Styled Component, VanillaJS

•Blockchain: Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, XRPL

•Testing Frameworks: Jest, Enzyme, Jasmine, JUnit, Selenium

•Version Control: Git, GitHub, SVN

•Build Tools: Webpack, Babel

•API Integration: RESTful APIs, GraphQL, Fast API, Web3, Cognito, ChatGPT, OpenAI

•Database Technologies: MongoDB, MySQL (8 years), PostgreSQL (6 years), AWS Dynamo, AWS RDS, Microsoft Azure

•DevOps: Docker (3 years), AWS (5 years), Heroku, Kubernetes, Sonar Cube, Nexus, Linux, Jenkins, CI/CD pipeline, GCP

•Project Management: Agile, Scrum, Jira, Trello

•Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, macOS

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