Zak Nitsch

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EDUCATION

HUMBER COLLEGE

Web Design, Development &

Maintenance

March 2012 Toronto, ON

FANSHAWE COLLEGE

Multimedia Design and

Production

April 2009 London, ON

EXPERIENCE

METAIL Full-Stack Web Engineering Contractor

Jan 2019 - July 2019 Remote / Cambridge, UK

Contracted for full-stack web services including Clojure/ClojureScript work and JavaScript for an internal Photoshop Plugin. Joined a team of 3 other developers to continue development on an internal tool to manage the workflow for a composed photography process.

Experience working with:

• Clojure/ClojureScript and various libraries (including leiningen build tool)

• Postgres Databases with Flyway migrations

• Modified existing build scripts used by Jenkins/Rundeck for CI

• AWS infrastructure including S3, EC2, RDS and SQS

• Git and Bitbucket for SCM with Atlassian workflow tools

MACADAMIAN TECHNOLOGIES Intermediate SoftwareDeveloper

Nov 2017 – Dec 2018 Remote / Gatineau, QC

Joined several teams ranging in size from 5-10 engineers working on legacy projects and an internal product built with an array of technologies such as Knockout, TypeScript, Angular, node.js, robot testing framework, Python as well as git and gerrit for SCM

METAIL Junior Web Engineer

Nov 2015 - Sept 2017 Cambridge, UK

Tasked with learning ClojureScript and Om.Next (a wrapper around Facebook’s React) from scratch for a mobile-first overhaul of an existing desktop-focused SPA. Exposed to many different technical disciplines, ranging from a standalone Clojure application outputting data to CSV (stored in Google Drive) to a web application an internal tool to manage the workflow for a composed photography process

Experience working with:

• Clojure/ClojureScript and various libraries (including leiningen build tool)

• Postgres Databases with Flyway migrations

• Modified existing build scripts used by Jenkins/Rundeck for CI

• AWS infrastructure including S3, EC2, RDS and SQS

• Git and Bitbucket for SCM with Atlassian workflow tools

GRIP LTD. Front End Developer

Aug 2012 – Aug 2015 Toronto, ON

Completed various types of projects such as responsive HTML email campaigns, contest websites featuring simple JavaScript-based games (spot the differences, matching, etc.) as well as full site rebuilds.

• CSS written using SASS pre-compiler with custom animations controlled by JavaScript (jQuery)

• interacted with many third-party APIs (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.)

• exposed to both SVN and Git version control systems Page 1