Matthew Ricardo Email & Phone Number

Contributed to a diverse range of projects across multiple web applications & one mobile application supporting a large video/audio on demand subscription service, a large eCommerce store with over 1k products, and over 20k items of CMS driven content for a user base of over 2k registered users.Served as one of a few very senior engineers (in a team of \~10) in a mentorship role for junior engineers in providing support/guidance on technical direction/implementation & evaluating trade-offs between changes/enhancements and user impact.Built and maintained DevOps solutions for a range of projects with workflows on automated testing suites (Jest/Cypress) on CircleCi & Github Actions. Developed and maintained Bash & Node.js scripts for build-time dependency management & container workflow orchestrationOne of four founding engineers tasked with rebuilding legacy codebase using modern client-side technologies: TypeScript, React + Native, and GraphQL hosted on Jamstack architecture and Server-side technologies: Node.js applications & REST API services on AWS Lambda & Elastic Beanstalk

Scarsdale, New York, Us

— Tasked as both a frontend engineer & UX/UI architect to design and build user-requested features to the Guardian Navigation application using a WebAssembly frontend framework: Blazor / .Net Core (C#)— Worked directly with CTO to define user task flows. Built prototype in Framer that modeled proposed UX / UI interaction across web & mobile— Successfully built highly interactive UI using stateful, API-driven Blazor components

New York, New York, Us

— Worked in a midsize engineering team (~10+ engineers), and collectively with product managers to build UI components in React 16, TypeScript, & styled-components within a Gatsby, Storybook, & Create React App environment— Built API-driven React components that consumed customer data collection endpoints and third party API services— Collaborated with engineers to architect solutions, debug issues, participate in code reviews, and successfully deploy production code to meet sprint targets— Worked closely with the DevOps team to ensure consistent & successful deployments by addressing hotfixes, debugging build failures, and significant QA

Long Island City, New York, Us

— Led engineering efforts with 1 - 2 other developers to platform large clients onto Shopify and migrated all client data & site content while architecting & building frontend in ES6 JavaScript, SCSS, TypeScript/React, Styled-components.— Successfully rebuilt of DBNY agency site in a headless architectural pattern between an API driven CMS solution and a TypeScript/React asynchronously loading frontend.— Headed and successfully delivered a large-scale, e-commerce site re-platforming onto Shopify that received a nomination (Awwwards.com) for 'eCommerce Site of The Year'— Implemented AJAX-based, decoupled UI shopping cart experience to individually route customer checkouts from subscription-based to single order purchases— Worked with a creative team to vet technical feasibility of designs, incorporate clean & intuitive UX, and deliver fault-tolerant page layout & UI solutions

New York, Us

— Worked as a sole engineer in a design / UX team making over 2k+ git commits creating everything from landing pages, emails, full site builds, and developed internal tooling using Gulp, Webpack, & NPM to build, maintain, & scale products— Consistently translated prototypes leveraging modern practices in workflow and development using Gulp, Webpack, SCSS, HTML5, ES6 JS, jQuery, & React— Worked with a creative team to implement progressive web techniques in asset optimization, Bootstrap CSS framework, Responsive design, and BEM naming convention for UI components— Ensured consistent experience through rigorous cross-browser testing from IE 9+ and fast page performance using progressive asset loading techniques & hardware accelerated code