Lead Frontend Software Engineer
Resume:
Dave Held
Lead Frontend Software Engineer
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INTRODUCTION
I’m a Lead Frontend Software Engineer with over two decades’ experience designing, developing and delivering large scale web applications for companies across technology and financial industries. I thrive within a cooperative team culture where I can contribute to the design and delivery of e cient client-side architecture and intuitive UI features written in tested, maintainable code. For most of my career I have worked remotely, building successful products by leveraging current web technologies, in collaboration with geographically distributed product and engineering teams. In my most recent roles I have elevated the product codebase and engineering team structure of a growing GovTech startup. As a member of an early-hire group of experienced developers, I use skills acquired over many years to positively impact the team dynamic, product development processes, engineering standards, front-end architecture and overall technical stack. These e orts have improved the end-user experience, the quality and maintainability of the product and the overall trajectory of the company.
On a personal note, I feel fortunate to be solving problems in this profession; but beyond making a living, I want to apply my expertise to address the important challenges facing the world. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Euna Solutions, Chicago, IL (Remote)
Lead Software Engineer JANUARY 2023 - PRESENT
Euna Solutions is a conglomeration of software companies digitizing public sector organizations, specializing in procurement, payments, grant management, budgeting, permitting, and K-12 admin. Responsibilities and results in this role:
● Lead technical planning with Senior Product Managers to design and spec large-scale features for our existing platform and new products.
● Estimate and report on team progress to internal and external stakeholders.
● Tackle real-world customer challenges and ship highly impactful software quickly, crafting frontend web apps or back-end services by working from detailed designs to implement rich user experiences.
● Establish PR review best practices, develop e ective tests and metrics to ensure successful software delivery, and monitor and analyze the real-time performance of the platform.
● Lead teams and the wider engineering organization in the improvement of development processes and the introduction of new approaches, while contributing to each team's success with code reviews, thorough documentation, and open knowledge sharing.
● Build team capabilities over time by finding opportunities for less experienced engineers to make critical business impacts and by the clear execution and documentation of best practices.
● Directly mentor less experienced engineers and document and demonstrate the execution of SDLC best practices.
● Ensure the team can deliver now and in the future by keeping the product architecture moving forward.
● Apply and support security best practices.
Primary Technologies: ECMAScript7, React.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Axios, Recoil, URQL (Universal React Query Library), styled-components, Node.js, Figma
DemandStar Corporation, Seattle, WA (Remote)
Senior Frontend Software Engineer JANUARY 2021 - January 2023 DemandStar is a two-sided marketplace which connects a network of government procurement agencies and private vendors. As a Senior Frontend Engineer, I design new client-side architecture and bring new UI capabilities to production, e orts that continue to grow and empower the user base and drive existing customer adoption of the expanding feature set. In October 2022, DemandStar was acquired by the GovTech conglomerate, Euna Solutions (formerly GTY Technologies).
Responsibilities and results in this role:
● Lead the adoption of a streamlined front end technology stack—especially via ReactJS and Typescript—resulting in a faster, more performant core application.
● Mentor and partner with fellow engineers in the application of new technologies and engineering best practices for more testable, maintainable, scalable code-base.
● Collaborate with product and customer support teams, including initiation of cross-team discussions to accelerate the delivery of product improvements and new features.
● Produce and advocate for standardized functional requirements and technical specification documents
● Establish and implement coding standards and style guides in the refactoring of a legacy code base
● Design and build functional, composable UI components, such as the following: Custom Document uploader and authenticated download APIs, Data list management tools—sorting and filtering components with custom React hooks, Application state management and user authentication and session persistence
Primary Technologies: ECMAScript7, React.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Axios, Recoil, styled-components, Node.js, Figma
Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS), Seattle, WA (Remote) Senior Frontend Software Engineer / Technical Product Manager JULY 2008 - DECEMBER 2020 At CTS, I wrote and delivered features for several incarnations of the company’s core Online Video Platform Content Management System (Console). My e orts helped expand user adoption via a ReactJS/Typescript application, while maintaining legacy product compatibility. I spent the majority of my time with Comcast as a remote-based engineer; and also contributed to the product as a Technical Product Manager.
My work as a remote, Frontend Engineer focused on the following:
● Improved application performance speed and reliability by researching and implementing many of the latest front-end technologies—namely ReactJS, Typescript, GraphQL— into UI components and core features.
● Initiated emerging technology evaluations and advised the engineering team and management on architectural decisions, leading to a more cohesive front-end codebase, more complete test coverage and faster onboarding for a growing, distributed engineering team.
● Wrote a reusable UI component library and application-wide state management architecture I also brought updated and novel UX features to the application as a Technical Product Manager. I reduced feature release timing by coordinating e orts with Product owners, Solutions Architects and Engineering leads through technical specification authoring, product roadmap prioritization, developer resource allocation through agile methodologies and mentoring of an expanding, international engineering group.
Contributions as a Technical Product Manager, UI/UX
● Improved the globally distributed team's pace of onboarding and delivery, within agile Sprint and Kanban workflows.
● Authored technical specifications for direct communication between product and engineering teams.
● Devised test plan requirements for improved transparency between development and quality assurance teams.
● Managed product roadmap prioritization for faster MVP delivery.
● Allocated developer resources within dev cycles for sequential feature completion. Technologies: JavaScript ES6+ (ES2015+), ReactJS, Typescript, GraphQL, Redux. Apollo Server, Styled Components, (AWS DynamoDB), RESTful APIs
Chirp Interactive, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Founding Software Engineer JUNE 2007 - JUNE 2008
Chirp was a social media startup focused on aggregated social media visualizations. In my work as a founding engineer I designed, coded and deployed the client-facing application and supporting user management system. Namely, I devised an API to integrate disparate components written in open-source and proprietary technologies, to finish the timely delivery and initial launch of the flagship application.
Chirp was acquired by Comcast in June of 2008.
Wheeler Street Design, Santa Rosa, CA
Co-Founder, Principal Engineer JANUARY 2002 - FEBRUARY 2008 I founded this consultancy with a fellow web developer after securing several long term contracts to design and implement web applications with a concentration on Content Management Systems for clients in a variety of industries.
My work covered every aspect of business development and management, in addition to the design, architecting, and hands-on implementation of data-driven content management applications on the web. Our growing engineering team was hired en masse by Chirp Interactive in 2008. MSCI Barra, Berkeley, CA
Webmaster, UI Developer SEPTEMBER 2003 - OCTOBER 2004 Barra, Inc. was a financial risk analysis company acquired by Morgan Stanley subsidiary MSCI in 2004. As Webmaster, I redesigned and rebuilt the corporate website and worked with the internal design department to create product marketing UI materials and internal data visualizations. iPIN, Inc., Belmont, CA
Webmaster / Senior Web Developer JUNE 2002 - AUGUST 2003 iPIN was an early stage micro-payments processing startup, for whom I authored the corporate website and its supporting interactive marketing materials; as well as internal, data-driven reporting UIs. Soltima, Inc., Campbell, CA
Web Developer JUNE 2000 - AUGUST 2001
Soltima was a web preferences management company, before modern browsers supported many of the current default features. I built the corporate website, designed multimedia marketing collateral and created internal web applications and tools.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
● Remote / Virtual Software Engineering
● UX / UI / design
● Technical / Graphical specification composition
● Technical Product Management
● Agile methodologies
EDUCATION
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA BA - Political Science JANUARY 1996 - JUNE 1998
Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
AS - Biology AUGUST 1993 - JUNE 1995
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