Mark43’s mission is to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all.Responsibilities<ul><li>Scoping, planning, and development of new functionality.</li><li>Triaging and remediating bugs.</li><li>Providing 24/7 on-call support on a rotating basis.</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Conducted over 50 technical interviews of candidates of various experience levels.</li><li>Identified and solved several user-impacting performance issues.</li><li>Rebuilt multiple workflows to be up to established code standards.</li></ul>

Senior Software Engineer

Mokriya is a global digital product engineering consultancy firm.Responsibilities<ul><li>Scoping and building features.</li><li>Reviewing peers&#x27; code.</li><li>Collaborating with the design-system team.</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Serve as liaison between a team of external consultants and the client.</li><li>Establish patterns for easily adding test coverage to a variety of different component types.</li><li>Lead incorporation of a custom design system and supported further customization when necessary.</li></ul>

Senior Frontend Developer

XAPPmedia specializes in delivering high-quality voice-powered technology experiences (think Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant).Responsibilities<ul><li>Design and development of critical user workflows</li><li>Upgrading 3rd party libraries.</li><li>Demoing new functionality to senior leadership and other stakeholders.</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Expand unit test coverage of existing features from approximately 24% aggregate to 82%.</li><li>Build end-to-end test coverage of critical, revenue-impacting workflows and incorporate them into the CI system.</li><li>Built a customised login workflow using Auth0.</li></ul>

Lead Front End Developer

BlueAcorn is a web development agency that specializes in e-commerce.Responsibilities<ul><li>Scoping, estimating, and executing pixel-perfect customizations of Salesforce Commerce Cloud (formerly Demandware) new implementations.</li><li>Demoing functionality of customizations to clients.</li><li>Preparing documentation prepared for both technical and non-technical users.</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Obtained Salesforce Commerce Cloud (formerly Demandware) Certification and successfully mentored 3 developers in the pursuit of their own certifications.</li><li>Launched 3 new implementations on time and under budget.</li><li>Supported the scoping of an internally developed starter theme.</li></ul>

Lead Front End Engineer

Junyo was a startup that specialized in applying big data analysis to educational technology.Responsibilities<ul><li>Rapidly producing demos &amp; proof of concept apps for internal &amp; investor use.</li><li>Collaborating with backend (Python) developers on the planning, implementation, and testing of new features.</li><li>Troubleshooting, patching, and testing user-reported bugs.</li><li>Providing estimates on all tasks via JIRA and reconciling those estimates through logging &amp; tracking time spent per task.</li><li>Working with the design team to solve complex UI/UX problems.</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Rebuilt the corporate site in less than 7 days during nights and weekends with the help of one other engineer</li></ul>

Front End Web Developer

Izea is the leading sponsored content marketplace.Responsibilities<ul><li>Tracking/troubleshooting/resolving software bugs.</li><li>Finishing Rails devs’ features (styling content, adding JavaScript, writing integration tests).</li><li>Composing documentation for new and esoteric features (via GitHub wikis).</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Reduced bundled CSS size by over 40% by removing unused Bootstrap modules and converting trivial Sass mixins to @extends.</li><li>Spearheaded the incorporation of animated UI elements via Bootstrap and custom JavaScript/CSS Animations.</li><li>Refactored the entire front-end codebase to scale gracefully from 1920 pixels to 320 pixels wide, with the help of one other engineer.</li></ul>

Different Perspective is a creative agency that specializes in branding, identity, and advertising.Responsibilities<ul><li>Transforming Photoshop mockups into responsive websites via custom-built WordPress themes.</li><li>Auditing potential web projects to help determine the scope, required materials/licenses, and approximate number of hours to complete.</li><li>Bug tracking and troubleshooting of live projects.</li><li>Corresponding with clients when their needs are technically oriented and communication through the Project Manager would be inefficient.</li><li>Educating clients on the administration and management of their sites through written docs, remote screen sharing, and face-to-face training.</li><li>Educating the staff on emerging technologies that will empower them to sell a higher-end product.</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Incorporated CSS and JavaScript-powered animations in every project that we shipped.</li><li>Delivered highly customized content management functionality via Advanced Custom Fields.</li></ul>

Web Developer

My career began taking on freelance web development gigs. My weapon of choice was WordPress when the client needed control over the content of their site.Responsibilities<ul><li>Managing web projects from inception to launch.</li><li>Communicating with clients regarding their needs and designing/developing a solution. </li><li>Customizing existing frameworks to meet a variety of communication, media distribution, and commerce needs. </li><li>Supporting clients when additional help is necessary. </li><li>Time-tracking, invoicing, and accounting for all transactions.</li></ul>Accomplishments<ul><li>Was able to pay rent in New York City for a year as a freelance web developer</li></ul>

Principal

I have been working with JS since my career began in 2011, and has been the primary focus of my day to day since December of 2017. I believe that simple code is better than clever code.

My career began building simple sites with plain HTML/CSS. I believe in the less is more approach. To put it another way, I try to execute a given design using the least amount of selectors possible. Specificity is the enemy of reusability.

I have been using React as my primary tool since December of 2017. I learned using class based components but have been using functional components pretty exclusively since 2019.

I have been a firm believer in the importance of unit tests since I began working with React. I am well versed in common sense best practices and know how to maximize critical code paths.

My career began as a freelancer making custom WordPress themes. It's been some years since it was my primary focus, but I still maintain multiple sites that run themes that I have developed and am well versed in best practices for custom theme building.

I have been working remote full-time since December of 2017. (Though if you count my early days as a freelancer, then you'd say I've been working remote since 2012). I have developed a number of skills and habits to maximize productivity and maintain the ever important work-life balance.

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Shawn Rice

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