Operative position within core team with emphasis on creating software solutions to increase business efficiency.

- #1 code contributor with 213,323 lines of code.
- Created new payment method that enabled clients to quickly pay with Stripe, PayPal or ACH.
- Decreased loading time by more than 500% by refactoring monolithic angular system into smaller modularized apps.
- Led migration from Node/Mongo/Angular/Heroku to ES6/Postgres/React/Docker system as 3rd most code contribution within a team of 20.

Freelance Software Engineer

Partner function within lead generation business in automotive finance industry oriented on creating new software solutions to help increase conversion rate.

- Increased conversion rate to extremely high 39%
- Generated 20K+ leads per month with new technology.
- Produced highly qualified leads with lead-to- sales ratio of 90%.

Partner


Search Optics came to me as a small digital marketing business, with three employees, that served a handful of auto dealerships. They were smart marketers but had little technology to help automate, expedite and scale their digital marketing services. Today, Search Optics serves hundreds of dealerships and has over 50 employees in 3 locations across the United States.

Accomplishments
● Created CRM to monitor and report on client campaigns across multiple services, interacting with APIs from Google Analytics, Yahoo, Microsoft and Callsource.
● Created website so clients could monitor and generate performance reports.
● Designed and developed a proxy system that provided advanced analytics capabilities that allowed them to track form submissions, phone calls and emails, and provide a higher level of tracking than any of their competitors.

Software Engineer

Executive role focused on implementing and developing software systems to help automate business activities and help increase sales. Almost solely enabled rapid company growth (100k customers, $2B in loan payments).

- Coordinated 2 staff members: software engineer and designer.
- Helped automation and company’s rapid growth by creating and developing software solutions including website, CRM, payment processing, commissions, sales and marketing systems.
- Helped sales and customer support managers to increase number of closed deals faster by developing and implementing new technology solutions.
- Created an algorithm that enabled financial forecast and helped provide assurance to the company’s affiliate network.

Chief Technology Officer

I have worked exclusvely with Node.js over the last decade while at Gigster and my own FinTech startup.

I've worked on numerous React projects while at Gigster including their own internal business staffing and talent portals.

I have extensive experience with Javascript and popular libraries such as jQuery, Angular, React and Meteor.

My most most recent javascript work was at Gigster using a React, Redux, Webpack to build a pure browser complaint HTML, CSS, Javascript build. 


Most recent Postgres project involved migrating a large legacy Mongo database to Postgres while at Gigster.

I have over 20 years of experience building MySQL based applications, including a 5 years of leadership at Smart Payment Plan where we processed 30 million dollars a month in transactions on a system I designed.

Gigster's backend system was originally based in Mongo.  I've also built a FinTech application based on the NoSQL database.

Almost every project I've been involved with since I started back in 1998. 

Created the infrastructure for Smart Payment Plan in PHP 6.  Have contributed to the open source Zend Framework including winning a monthly bug hunt competition. 

I've built dozens of websites with Wordpress and have extensive experience with it's internals and best practices.

Most internal applications at Gigster are built using a combination of Docker, Kubernetes and NPM scripts. 

I have also have experience with third party tools at AWS CloudWatch, Kibana, SumoLogic and Papertrail. 

I have extensive experience with improving page rank through markup enhancements, link building, content marketing, social sharing and specific technology protocols like schema.org and open graph.

I have extensive experience with multiple AWS services including EC2, CloudWatch, Auto-Scaling, RDS, S3, Route 53, SES. Elastic Load Balancing and Cloud Front.

I contribute to open source Ethereum projects and spend my spare time working on personal blockchain  projects.

Personal details

Michael D.

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