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San Diego, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

* Working on the Slack Platform* Leading development to support integration of third party data* Led development on the Deno SDK library to simplify the creation of Apps

Irvine, Ca, Us

* Developed multiple highly trafficked Express websites using React and Pug with a co-located team split between Austin, TX and Irvine, CA.* Authored internal tool using React with Material UI to allow content editors the ability to customize which content is delivered to users based on data unique to them, and when that content is available.* Performed accessibility overhauls and shared best practices and learnings on refactoring sites to be AA compliant.* Converted various pages from Pug to React using the CSS Modules pattern for isolated styling of components.* Migrated CMS systems to ContentStack.

Irvine, Ca, Us

* Served as a main developer on the 2019 BlizzCon web portfolio, which included our webapp, API, chromecast receiver, admin portal, and third party streams. Supported these applications live at the convention.* Removed engineering dependency for content updates on 85% of the BlizzCon site by working with design to create a component library comprised of general, reusable, and customizable page-builder modules made available by a proprietary Content Management System. This reduced delivery times for content updates from a week or more to a few hours.* Formed and orchestrated a Hackathon project that created a new website for users to view coworkers’ pets and register their own.* Developed Blizzard Navbar which runs has both a Node and Java version.* Refactored BitMovin video player integration to use the latest version. Forked their React with TypeScript UI library to add custom styles and functionality.* Updated and re-defined our data schemas delivered via the BlizzCon API to our web and mobile apps. This required updating our local MongoDB instance for video data and establishing an instance on a new CMS, ContentStack.* Collaborated with designers to build our design system, improve our component library, and ensure responsiveness across all 13 supported locales.* Unified CSS preprocessors by converting all LESS to SCSS.* Mentored contractors and provided in-depth code reviews.* Co-founded the Front End Dev group. Organized monthly meetings and tech talks.* Improved team processes by advocating for more formalized scrum methodologies and code review requirements.* Modified Jenkins continuous delivery scripts responsible for building and deploying Docker containers.* Performed data migration to move the Blizzard eSports site off of Drupal.

Irvine, Ca, Us

* Maintained responsibilities from the Specialist role.* Managed and mentored 7 Test Analysts.* Conducted Test Analyst, Technical Test Analyst, and Test Lead interviews* Created an in-house Express app driven by a MySQL database to surface and visually represent both static and dynamic player data in World of Warcraft.

Irvine, Ca, Us

* Developed playoverwatch.com, a localized, reponsive, and highly trafficked website built using Express and Jade templating.* Updated internal web environments to consume profile data from internal game environments and helped establish the end to end testing process.* Refactored existing esports carousel component to use Javascript, simplifying the integration of concurrent and successive animations.* Authored detailed documentation on the steps to add or update cadenced content like events and heroes.* Shepherded multiple deploys through AWS Elastic Beanstalk and New Relic.* Introduced logic to display particular content only when the event is scheduled to be active.* Uploaded assets to AWS S3 in the necessary format and structure.* Assisted with a proof of concept task for using Drupal as a static content management system by setting up preliminary views for editing content.* Developed and maintained code across multiple different libraries and modules.* Set up event tracking in Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.

Irvine, Ca, Us

* Directed manual/automated testing and QA tool development efforts for the World of Warcraft Internal Tools team.* Defined testing process and scope for over 20 in-house tools using various technologies including MFC C++, command-line, web, subversion, and more.* Provided “customer” support to developers who were encountering issues * Wrote basic SQL Queries to provide data to WoW development and QA teams* Established structure and expectations for team JIRA and Confluence usage

Irvine, Ca, Us

Worked as a Test Analyst on Diablo III until July of 2015, focusing on Live Operations and Social features.