Samuel Oltz Email & Phone Number

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Led team of developers and designers at web development agency.Developed backend applications (PHP, NodeJS, Typescript, Lambda, Drupal) and frontend applications (SASS, ReactJS, NextJS). Integrated with a wide variety of services (Redis, Solr, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB) and APIs (including OAuth2, Twilio, Service Now, Salesforce, Hubspot, Stripe and Authorize.net).Orchestrated operations initiatives including local development (Docker, Webpack, Gulp), continuous integration (Jenkins, Drone, Github, Bitbucket), server management (Chef, Ansible, Kubernetes), and the move to a PaaS (Platform.sh).Served in leadership role involving business development and long-term planning. Assisted with hiring and mentoring junior developers.Attended pre-sales meetings, responded to RFPs, and conducted feature discovery.Managed projects and interfaced with clients as technical lead.Formulated wireframes and evaluated user experience concerns.Advised client IT departments, recommending server configurations and requirements for applications.

Taught two semesters of an introductory web development course.Covered HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Developed backend applications at web development agency with CodeIgniter, WordPress, Drupal 5/6, and Expression Engine.Created frontend interfaces for the above CMSs.Gathered project requirements from clients, translating them to functionality.

Grandville, Mi

Developed custom PHP scripts for a small business.Created custom application that allowed customers to securely access private information.

Master Of Arts (Ma)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba)