Experience
January 2021 - Present
Sr. Developer
Pfizer Inc.
My duties at Pfizer mainly consists of Laravel/Vue work.
While most of each day is spent working on a micro team that is part of a larger team,
on occasion
I am asked to overlook a PR for someone else on my macro team. This leads to better
understanding
of my position, the work others are doing, how the two relate and the larger picture for
our macro team.
Other than Vue/Laravel I have been active in the following:
- Livewire
- AlpineJS
- Transition projects to Vue3
- Custom Pfizer API's
- Serverless architecture (RDS, ECS)
- Ansible
- Rundeck (automation)
- Documentation
June 2019 - January 2021
Sr. Applications Architect
NuImage Medical
Primarily responsible for handling any requests that come down from management. This
has so far included:
- Redesigning landing/splash pages for our website to be responsive using Tailwind
CSS.
- Creating/modifying custom Vue.js components
- Ensuring sensitive data is kept private due to HIPAA regulations
- Analyzing issues that arise to determine the proper course of action understanding
the
long term effects as well as the demands of business to resole the issue in a timely
manner.
- Working within a Laravel 5.8 environment, utilizing many of the core Laravel
functions
like: TDD, Events, Notifications (SMS/Email/Slack), Validation Rules, Routing, Auth
guards,
Custom Middleware, Eloquent
July 2017 - June 2019
Sr. Developer
FastGrowingTrees.com/BrighterBlooms.com
Responsible for the migration of two Xcart websites to the Shopify platform which
includes:
- Connecting to MSSQL server (where current data is being stored) build Laravel (5.2)
models to accurately establish relationships and port data using Shopify's REST
Admin
API.
- Utilize Dell Boomi along with custom CRON scripts to synchronize data including all
product/variant data and meta (over 100k fields), inventory (which includes various
complicated calculations), historical customer data, historical gift cards/balances,
reviews, questions and answers, product images and CEO and translation of historical
discounts to Shopify discounts
- Introduced Vue.js to the company's "Control Center" or central place for all
business
logic and built a few tools to increase their productivity with Vue.js and a custom
API.
- Built the company's API workflow and logic for handling external queries for custom
business logic and established an oAuth 2.0 server to handle authorized requests.
- Integrated a queue system (SQS) for importing orders from our various channels.
Currently, we are completing our scaling efforts, migrating our monolith to
microservices
in AWS, along the way I have completed my certification for AWS Cloud Practitioner
and
working on my Solutions Architect certification.