Brandon H. Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Leading frontend engineering and QA for tens of thousands of daily active users. Managing a team of frontend and QA engineers with a constant focus on delivering product, mentoring, and expanding test coverage.Working closely with the product team and executives to define scope and allocate resources for our cycles (see The Shape Up Method). Consistent retros and 1-on-1s with direct reports and related staff to improve our process and learn from our mistakes. We focus on delivery in our cycles to ensure we're always delivering.Responsible for ensuring our NowSecure security report is nearly flawless while addressing critical/high dependency vulnerabilities as soon as possible via proactive security monitoring. I also monitor our core web vitals to look for anomalies while ensuring performance remains consistent.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

After returning to EveryoneSocial, I architected and rebuilt the entirety of our web application using TypeScript, React, Apollo, and Webpack. We used Material UI as the UI framework and eventually migrated from Apollo to React Query to interact with the GraphQL API hosted on AWS AppSync. Additionally, we rolled out Cypress for frontend integration tests which we eventually scrapped for Robot and Selenium.Delivered dozens of features including feeds, posting, sharing, admin analytics, and many more. Worked closely with the CEO, design lead, and the backend team to define scope and ship features using Jira and CircleICI.Designed the frontend technical test on HackerRank which I used to screen, interview, and hire several engineers. Oversaw and contributed to development of our React Native app and delivered feature parity in several areas.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Lead engineer on cornerstone “Campaigns” feature which includes a rich-text, drag-and-drop editor built using React and DraftJS. Campaigns also contains an HTML Editor built on top of Ace. The various campaign and message reports are displayed using Recharts which is built on top of D3.Architected and built Alliioop product using React, Mobx, Material-UI, Babel 7, and Webpack 4. Tests are written using Jest. Dropped initial payload from 4.5MB to 1.2MB (340K gzip) with aggressive code-splitting and tree-shaking.Built “Activity Report” feature which allows customers to explore multiple levels of customer segmentation.Rebuilt “Funnel Report” using React and component-based CSS which allows users to visualize sales funnels.Migrated Acceptance Tests from Capybara to a Node.js app running Codecept.js.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Architected and built the entirety of EveryoneSocial’s admin and user facing web apps. Both apps were powered by Backbone, jQuery, Bootstrap, SCSS, and Handlebars. Tests were written with Jasmine.Continual improvements to UX and feature iterations with the product team boosted user engagement. Features included: user and content tagging, file uploads, permission based content management, and masonry layouts. Delivered cross-platform mobile apps using Cordova.Built HubSpot driven sales site which helped us grow, albeit in a small part, from one enterprise customer to fifty.

Built HTML5 Mobile Web app using Backbone and jQuery Mobile for Clipboard’s 140K users.Constructed “Find Friends” UI and backend Node.js connections to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Gmail.Built Facebook Open Graph application with permission management for seamless social sharing.Added file upload feature (multiple queued uploads and drag and drop) using a forked version of jQuery File Upload.

Built CurationSoft (desktop software) using ActionScript which was distributed via Adobe Air. Transformed Blog Success from a one-page membership site into a social community with Drupal. Integral part of growing company from $350K to over $1MM in revenue. Modest exit in 2012.Managed numerous software and website development projects across the company. Designed and implemented sales funnels, marketing systems, and follow-up sequences.

Formed dozens of new relationships with email list owners, and trained hundreds of affiliates in a group setting. Expanded affiliate assets with various banners, pre-written emails, call-to-action links, and surveys. Grew affiliate base by 200% while raising affiliate engagement by 50%.