Web Developer Full-Stack

Horace Reid III

Atlanta GA, *****

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Innovative Web Developer and Generative AI Full-Stack Systems Architect specializing in agentic systems design and development. With over a decade of experience, I have upskilled to deliver cutting-edge AI-driven solutions that empower users and streamline workflows. My preferred stack—Next.js, Tailwind CSS, AI.SDK, and Postgres—enables me to build scalable, maintainable, and visually impactful applications that enhance user experiences across platforms.

Forward-thinking pioneer leveraging premium and open-source LLMs, Docker, and advanced AI frameworks to solve complex problems. Passionate about mentoring and community engagement, focused on fostering collaboration, driving impactful results, and advancing skills in the evolving field of agentic systems. Selected Technical Skills

Development — CursorAI (AI-assisted coding across multiple languages), Typescript Next.js Python Node.js

GenAI — Agentic System Design Hugging Face Ecosystem Prompt Engineering Cloud —Docker Google Cloud Platform Amazon Web Services Vercel Digital Ocean Career History

Blue Net Reflections (Remote) 12/2013 – Current

Generative AI Full-Stack Systems Architect

Agent-Driven System Development: Design and implement a chain-of-thought AI workflow using Claude LLM to develop and vet ideas, create UML diagrams for system design, and execute a seamless end-to-end project lifecycle. Applied agentic workflows for rapid, cost-effective development while ensuring code quality.

LLM-Powered Data Processing: Built a pipeline to load voter data files, clean and validate the data, and dynamically generate schemas. Utilized Claude LLM for parsing and schema creation, demonstrating proficiency in LLM-assisted inferencing tasks and AI-driven data management.

Conversational AI Platform: Develop a conversational web application to empower grassroots leaders with real-time access to voter data. Implement AI features such as zero-shot classification, embeddings, and NLP-to-SQL Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to support on-the-ground decision-making.

Rapid, High-Quality Development: Utilize CursorAI Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for agentic coding, enabling rapid prototyping and feature iteration. Delivering a production-grade conversational webapp at unprecedented speed, optimizing development workflows and achieving superior code quality.

Automated Testing and CI/CD Integration: Establish robust test coverage to prevent regressions and maintain system reliability. Experiment with agent-driven end-user testing capabilities, with plans to integrate these into a CI/CD pipeline.

Web Stack Toolset: Expertise in React.js, Angular, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Node.js, AI.SDK, Postgres, MongoDB, and Redis. Proficient in building scalable front-end and back-end systems, focusing on performance and maintainability.

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Publicis Sapient (Remote) 1/6/2020 – 7/2023

Senior Frontend Experience Architect / Developer

Orchestrated the optimization of Tapestry’s E-commerce Progressive Web App by harnessing the power of React, Chakra UI, Jotai, Next.js, and Salesforce Commerce Cloud API.

Provided high-level estimates to the Executive team and the IT department, influencing strategic decisions on revenue-impacting features while minimizing development costs during quarterly prioritization meetings.

Delivered comprehensive technical solutions using UML, flow charts, and React-based proof-of- concepts. Minimized ambiguities for offshore engineering teams, ensuring successful project outcomes across time zones.

Reviewed code submissions from offshore developers to validate compliance with technical solutions and organization defined best practices, resulting in a significant reduction of launch-blocking defects during the User Acceptance (UAT) phase.

Used Quantum Metric, a customer experience analytics platform, to identify and troubleshoot high- priority Frontend React defects in production, ensuring minimal revenue impact and immediate customer resolution.

Analyzed PWA's Product Detail page performance using Web Vitals, Chrome Dev Tools, and React Dev tools. Created technical stories for applying React memorization hooks, achieving a 30% decrease in Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), 10-15% decrease in Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and 50% less React re-rendering.

IST Research (Remote) 3/2019 – 12/31/2019

Universal React / Next.js Senior Contractor

Addressing the most urgent human security issues faced by the world’s vulnerable populations!

Joined front-end team to execute the successful migration from Angular to React, Redux, Saga, Reselect, Next.js, Typescript, JSS/CSS, and Material-UI. Demonstrated that React is a superior approach for rapid development, tailored to their specific use-cases, surpassing Angular's capabilities.

Designed and implemented a process using the GraphQL endpoint to consume backend data, replacing RESTful endpoints for user-specific UI reports from the Graph database. This solution improved development efficiency by providing a flexible UI to adapt to new requirements, accommodating different perspectives on the data.

Improved React solution led to a 20% boost in page load times and interactivity, effectively resolving web browser rendering bottlenecks. This enhancement significantly maximized performance across diverse browsers and devices.

Implemented the atomic component design pattern to create reusable, testable, and maintainable React components, ensuring alignment with the organization's UI/UX design system. The Children’s Place (Remote) 3/2019 – 7/2019

Architect / Angular-Ionic-Cordova Contractor

Received and fulfilled an exclusive contract to integrate the Venmo payment gateway service into TCP's Angular-Ionic based mobile app. Achieved this through a custom native IOS and Android Cordova plugin, enhancing the application's payment capabilities.

Supplied architectural and technical guidance for integrating Optimizely's experimentation service into TCP's ongoing Serverless-based redesign project. Ensured seamless A/B testing functionality enhancement without introducing new complexity or runtime overhead. ***********@*****.*** Horace Reid III P. 3 of 3

Publicis Sapient – Bed Bath and Beyond and The Children’s Place 7/2017 – 2/2019 Architect / React / Node.js Contractor

Functioned as a technical lead overseeing 2-3 onshore developers working on the multi-faceted product listing and product search pages. Implemented React/Redux at the core, enabling seamless data consumption from RESTful API services and the Apache Solr search platform.

Initiated the drive to achieve 90% code coverage by promoting the practice of writing unit test cases with tools like Jest, Mocha, Chai, and Enzyme. As a result, regressions decreased by 20-25% after the team embraced the practice.

Verizon Wireless – Cloud Platform Division 11/2016 – 6/2017 Senior Full Stack JavaScript Engineering Contractor Joined the Verizon Cloud Platform team to create a website for marketing information, targeting internal private cloud customers. Utilized the following web technologies:

Frontend: React, MobX, CSS3, HTML5, Jest, Webpack

Middle-tier: Docker, Node.js, ExpressJs, MongoDB, Mongoose, Circle CI/CD

CMS / Backend: Docker, Wordpress Rest v2 API, MySQL, PHP Consumer Reports 05/2016 – 09/2016

Senior Technical Web Applications Contractor

Joined the Dynamic Rendering Solutions team to re-platform the consumer facing website to replace jQuery.

Frontend: React, Redux, jQuery, JavaScript

Middle-tier: Laravel PHP, Node.js

Penguin Random House, LLC 09/2012 – 04/2016

Senior Technical Web Applications Contractor

During redesign of Penguin.com website

Developed a custom MVC WordPress plugin, utilizing WordPress routing API to route HTTP requests to controllers. This approach effectively separated presentation code from business logic, enhancing modularity and maintainability.

Implemented a Data Abstraction Layer using Doctrine2 (ORM) to map database tables to PHP objects, enhancing maintainability and code structure. This approach improved database interaction and facilitated better code organization.

Deployed Varnish, significantly enhancing site performance with an impressive 80% improvement in page response time and time to interactivity.

During redesign of Penguinrandomhouse.com website

Extended the custom MVC WordPress plugin from penguin.com to seamlessly incorporate new functionality and minimize regressions on the site. This expansion improved the plugin's capabilities without compromising the stability of the existing features.

Provided PHP client stubs to consume Book Title REST API services, establishing a comprehensive and maintainable interface between the front-end and backend systems. Education & Certifications

B.S. in Software Development, Western Governors University A.S. in Engineering Science City University of NY

CIW Advanced HTML5 and CSS3 Specialist Certification Oracle Certified Associate & Professional Java SE 7 Programmer

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