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Collaborating on all engineering and development projects as the primary developer for a dynamic creative studio, delivering a wide range of technical solutions to meet the evolving needs of the company and its clientsContributing to the redesign of the studio's main website, providing technical expertise and creative input, and implementing the final design utilizing contemporary web development technologiesDeveloping and customizing Shopify themes for clients, demonstrating versatility and a client-centric approachServing as the primary developer and technological consultant on an innovative NFT/Web3 project, utilizing Solidity and blockchain principles along with NFC technology, significantly broadening the company's technical scope

Served as Lead Fullstack Developer for a company that provided a platform for consuming live music streaming online, and for brands/organizations to provide peripheral experiences to their streaming content as well as gain insights on viewership and audience behavior.Served as the lead knowledge source for frontend and backend development and was responsible for final decision-making in regards to the company’s stack, middleware integrations, and any/all technology partners that enabled the platform.Continued to design and make decisions regarding the overall architecture of the web and mobile applications, and contributed to the direction of, managed, and implemented the product roadmap. Maintained code integrity and organization, best practices of security and data protection, and ensured quality and responsiveness of applications.

Implemented a JSON object/document editor using Typescript and Firebase, and semver for strict versioning, including an admin panel for managing users’ privileges

With a small team, from the ground up, built a text marketing platform utilizing 'chatbots' and addons tailored to various use cases. Contributed to the development of the website/client portal, including real-time chat, as well as our internals on the backend, including developing our API, maintaining our database, and routing conversations.Built a real-time chat interface and backend architecture populated by inbound/outbound/broadcast SMS using React and Firebase, and NodeRouting of conversations between clients/users and client's subscribers via Node serverDeveloped addons/bots to be installed by a user, providing various functionalities, built in Node and a touch of API.AIWorked all across the website/portal for users, as well as our Node server, implementing high-level specs for interfaces/features using React, Redux, Node, Express, Firebase, and various other libraries/tools/APIsParticipated in weekly sprints, daily scrums, as part of a small remote team

Worked remotely with a team to design and develop clients’ websites. Building responsive views/interfaces with Angular on top of Sails.js MVC framework. Recently implemented user login/account linking, social media sharing, and interface/functionality for CRUD operations (MongoDB!). Constantly resolving issues and Promises.

Worked with a small team building a social dating/doing mobile application with Ionic, Angular, Node, ngCordova, etc., pushing weekly improvements and bug fixes, and thinking about scaling.