Matt Carlotta Email & Phone Number

Sisters, Or, Us

Durham, Nc, Us

• To diversify the engineering workspace, I volunteer as a mentor for ESL (English as a Second Language) students that are looking to jump start a career in software engineering.• Provided in-depth weekly assignment code reviews and personalized guidance for up to 7 students.• Held bi-weekly 1-on-1 Zoom sessions that helped students achieve educational and career goals.

Remote-First, Us

• Collaborated with product, merchandising and customer care leads, to evaluate the feasibility of turning business ideas and Figma designs into JIRA stories and feature work.• Revamped the top-of-funnel (product display pages, category & product list pages, and the cart page) to drive a 5% increase in customer adoption and average order value.• Designed and managed the top-of-funnel server-side rendered Next.js pages and the Next.js REST APIs that received an average of 1 million unique monthly visitors.• Optimized CSS stylesheets for desktop, iPad and mobile devices by migrating legacy SCSS stylesheets over to reusable responsive Tailwind CSS classes. • Enhanced the CRUX (chrome real user experience) by 10 points by leveraging React Context and SWR to reduce the website’s runtime performance, load, and TTI (time to interactive).• Architected web accessible components in React, including a product selector and a reusable modal, to align with the company’s commitment to meet or exceed WCAG AA standards.• Translated Figma designs into A/B testable UI/UX features that allowed the business to track customer metrics to improve the care-giving experience. • Refined React components and Next.js APIs to unlock and improve the communication with different 3rd party vendors: BigCommerce, Contentful CMS, Builder CMS, Kustomer, SearchSpring, Nosto, Google Tag Manager, and Quantum Metric.

• Hired as a founding engineer to design and architect the front-end application in React until the company's closure in November.• Improved the application’s performance by 50% through migrating the single-bundle front end application to split-chunked bundled assets.• Significantly reduced their image assets by up to 90% through compressing and resizing large files (10MB+) to sub 10KB production-ready images for web usage.• Resolved critical react-hook-form bugs that were blocking users’ access to their profile data.• Streamlined the company’s roadmap and identified technical unknowns by creating 2D wire mockups and flow diagrams in DrawIO for the front-facing app.• Maintained regular communication with the company co-founder to provide updates on the roadmap, changes made to the application, concerns over current security flaws, and the impact of delays and cost to fix vulnerabilities.

• Served as the lead architect, lead product manager, and lead fullstack engineer to develop a Next.js with Redux application for the San Jose Sharks Ice Team (https://sjsiceteam.com/).• Constructed an ExpressJS RESTful API that interacts with a MongoDB database to store and manage event, employee, and scheduling data.• Collected employee responses and aggregated employee monthly availability and event distribution and displayed the results in Victory charts.• Streamlined the event scheduling process by architecting an automated monthly event creation microservice that utilized the NHL’s API and a custom-built web scraper to consume upcoming Sharks and Barracuda schedules.• Improved the communication, organization, and planning efficiency of the team by creating an email microservice that integrates with the SendGrid API to deliver custom monthly schedules and 24-hour pre-game notifications.• Ensured consistent and error-free deployments by implementing a CI/CD pipeline where all commits would be tested against before merging. Once validated, the app or services would be rebuilt and automatically redeployed to a remote headless Linux VPS. • Backed by 98% testing coverage with cross browser support for: Android & IOS, Safari, Firefox, Chrome and IE 11.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• A part of a guest service team that is responsible for making sure new and regular customers had fun, played safe, and abided by the rules.

Irving, Texas, Us

• Act as an art sales associate, which included knowledge and recommendation of a variety of art products. In addition, act as customer service in-store and over the phone.

New York, Ny, Us

• Held key responsibility for organizing proposals for potential clients and was responsible for data entry for future projects within the local area.• Responsible for designing an annual golf tournament flyer, which included designing a professional yet cost effective layout. • Updated a contact database for former clientele and reorganized current job filing systems.