Aarti Patel Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, CA

• Continued to work closely with BMW clients and program managers to gather technical requirements and oversee/support, validate, and design solutions following software development best practices and design patterns.
• Mentored Technology Leads and Senior Developers by providing guidance and support to enhance their technical skills and career development.
• Manage project operations including ticket creation, defining estimates, documentation of solution design, knowledge documentation and validating the solution with stakeholders
• Develop and improve onboarding curriculum for new team members
• Continued knowledge awareness around Adobe Experience Manager CMS.
• Assist the team in scheduling and executing production code deployments, ensuring smooth and efficient release cycles.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

• Successfully managed a team of 4-5 developers, ranging from junior to senior level, encompassing front-end and back-end expertise.
• Directly supervised three developers, providing guidance and support to enhance their technical skills and career development.
• Collaborate closely with Project Delivery, Creative, QA, DevOps, and other Tech team members to drive project completion and ensure adherence to deadlines.
• Developed a comprehensive framework for gathering requirements, estimating effort, and collaborating with cross-functional disciplines, ensuring consistency across work streams and enhancing project delivery and client.
• Spearhead projects focused on enhancing SEO and user interaction by updating and redesigning vehicle product detail pages and creating new components for seamless vehicle "shopping" experiences.
• Facilitate the intake process and streamline work backlog prioritization, ensuring that features with the highest user value are delivered first, aligning with overall project goals.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

• Worked on a large-scale team consisting of frontend and backend developers, digital producers, designers, and project managers. Collaborated with remote team members located across the US, Calgary, CA, and Costa Rica.
• Contributed to BMW client projects, focusing on web performance enhancements, AEM component enhancements, communication vehicle product detail pages, and the redesign of the Build Your Own feature.
• Utilized ES6 JavaScript, Vue.js, Vuex, Vue Router, and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to develop well-documented, clean, modular, and progressively enhanced code.
• Created detailed JIRA tickets, outlining the scope of work and high-level test cases to be achieved for each ticket.
• Wrote and maintained comprehensive component documentation on Confluence, ensuring clear understanding and knowledge sharing within the development team.
• Played an active role in the recruitment process, assisting in screening resumes and conducting phone and in-person interviews for interns and senior front-end developers.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Client work included Lincoln Motor Company, Mercedes-Benz (US/Canada), and Freightliner
• Worked in an agile environment on a large scale team along with other developers (FE/BE), functional analysts, designers, user experience, quality analysts, and project manager
• Used custom JS, ES6 JS, ReactJS, Handlebars, LESS, SASS, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to produce well documented, clean/modular, and progressively enhanced code
• Developed complex user interfaces according to designs and specifications for multiple platforms - web, mobile, dealer/dealership tools
• Performed code reviews
• Participated in East ShipIt Day, a one day hackathon to produce a prototyped product focusing on revolutionizing the education system through the use of blockchain technology

New York, NY, US

• Worked in an agile environment on a large scale team along with other developers (FE/BE), functional analysts, designers, quality analysts, and project manager
• Aided in front-end architecture development for Ford Motor Company and Lincoln Motor Company using AngularJS, JSP, LESS, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), and Karma test runner for JS
• Developed and pitched an internal 360 campaign given a prompt from Netflix with other discliplines (media, social, functional analyst, user experience, etc) from the NYC and Atlanta offices
• Participated in a 24-hour ideathon in Austin, TX and pitched social media and technology ideas for Takis Barel USA

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Shadowed projects for leading brands including Nike, American Express, and Gap
• Researched interactive technologies such as Arduino and Processing
• Researched and developed an autonomous "stick and poke" tattooing delta robot (ended up with an autonomous drawing robot)
• Designed and developed douknomillennials.com, an interactive true/false quiz based off facts about millennials

New York, NY, US

• Designed and developed features geared toward increasing the efficiency of web applications using Adobe ColdFusion and Git.
• Developed a timed test taking application to mock real standarized tests that provided immediate results
• Researched new technologies and APIs such as Stripe and Postmark
• Supported database management systems

• Developed legal web pages such as Terms and Conditions, and Policy page
• Designed and devleoped out a creative 404 error page
• Developed a nested commenting system using PHP and MySQL
• Developed a Tumblr website that represented Pubslush Press's first crowdfunded author, Ali Berlinksi, and her debut book
• Helped further the company's community outreach by building a Tumblr website called The Pubscriber, an online journal and network for aspiring writers