San Jose State University

De Anza College

BYU-Pathway Worldwide

Cosumnes River College

Galt High School

Senior Software Engineer  -  React, Context, Redux, and JavaScript Expert  -  Django  -  NodeJS  -  PWA and Video Game Enthusiast

San Francisco, California, United States

Stack: NextJs, React, Context / connect state management, Jenkins, AWS, GCG

-  Frontend lead responsible for an 8 person team of Software/QA engineers

-  Responsible for the frontend architecture and implementation of <a href="http://ranker.com">ranker.com</a> that has over 30 million unique monthly users.

-  Integrate Storybook to support software composition, documentation, testing, and synergy with product team

-  Guided team towards establishing improved workflow processes, team efficiency, and coordination

-  Improved architecture, scalability, and performance with connect API that memoizes components to multiple context stores

-  Established test coverage by implementing a testing framework that hydrates context stores and feeds data to Storybook / unit test components

-  Lead the software development, QA and release lifecycles

-  Communicated company / team objectives across all division such as project managers and designers to successfully improve on team efficiency

-  Optimize DOM updates, page loads, and server side vs client side rendering

-  1:1 pair programming / mentor and support career growth of team

-  Monitored and reported progress of the team to our CTO

-  Supported planning and requests from CEO and CPO

-  Conduct interviews for Engineer/QA candidates

-  Improve agile processes and implement ones that are useful for the company

-  Bridge gaps between engineering, product, and business leaders

Ranker

Senior Software Engineer/Lead (Remote)

I am always looking to level up: <a href="https://github.com/nathanhfoster">https://github.com/nathanhfoster</a>

Personal Projects

Software Developer

Stack: Azure, AWS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PyCharm, Gatsby, React, Django, Flask, FastAPI, MariaDB, Liquid, Stripe, Shopify, Wordpress, Ngrok

-  Building a world class team, company culture, and highly scalable and available products

-  Created an image CDN for social media share buttons for clients environmental impact metrics

-  Integrated Jira API to automate ticket creation on bugs

-  Worked closely together with CEO, COO, and Head of Engineering on product strategy and synergizing company goals / values with employees

-  Improved company's agile practices and communication

-  Guide the development on all apps

-  Acted as engineering / product hiring manager to build a world class team and culture

-  Pair programmed with and mentored engineers

-  Built 3 reusable NPM libraries to share components and utilities across all apps

EcoCart

Senior Software Consultant (Remote)

Stack: AWS, React, Redux, Express, NodeJs, PHP, Lambda, SQL, PostgreSQL

-  Identify and solve technical debt in the areas of CSS, JSS, Styled Components, and state management (Redux / React useState, useContext, and useReducer)

-  Identify and solve performance issues by implementing architecture and memoization techniques in React / Redux

-  Drastically reduced unneeded re-renders to the DOM for large core components after proving the viability of a prototype

-  Championed frontend architecture by galvanizing the most experience engineers across multiple teams to implement solutions that will help our code and teams better scale and perform

-  Refactored testing framework from enzyme to react-test-library and lifted coverage to 99%

-  Mentored and conducted training for engineers

-  Collaborated with tools team to augment large shareable React component library for the company with storybook documentation

-  Presided over multiple teams code quality and merge requests

-  Created and lead weekly company-wide engineering excellence trainings

-  Won company's internal hackathon aka innovation week: built a reusable timeline component that visualized the complex life cycle of a citation

-  Implemented an analytics abstraction that was easy to connect to button clicks and components / views mounting

Passport

Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

Stack: AWS, React, Redux, Cassandra, Elastic Search, Java, Nginx

-  Mentored senior developers to be on the vanguard of React / Redux design and implementation patterns

-  Built a custom state management replacement for Redux using React's new useContext and useReducer API

-  Transformed existing products to be a one stop shop platform for all commercial due diligence products and services

-  Built a PWA prototype that supported a shared economy of inspectors. This network would help alleviate the challenge if finding qualified inspectors to fill out environmental forms for properties around the country

Built Subscription Platform:

-  Built backend Java API to support subscription data

-  Augmented internal application to provide subscription based discounts and benefits to our clients

-  Built an interactive subscription profile on the client facing application to visualize savings and perks

-  Built a subscription selling tool that allows clients to visualize their potential savings if they chose a specific subscription tier

-  Built a portfolio platform were clients can run multiple environmental report searches on their properties

CREtelligent

Lead Frontend Software Engineer

- Leading frontend development and architecture

-  Establish high cohesion and loose coupling for React components, React router, Redux reducers, Redux actions, API requests, CSS and JSS modules

-  Built customized Google Map component that:

-  Renders SVG polygons and marker cluster systems to visualize, manage, and create project sites

-  Internally integrated external api parlay overlay

-  Polygon drawing manager that prevents polyline intersections by utilizing a custom Geometry class

-  Visualize and interact with a environmental report

-  Built project detail page where employees and customers can visualize and manage projects, orders, and proposals

-  Refined and converted Fetch API Requests to Axios for cohesion and older browser support

-  Improved company communication and productivity by organizing companywide process management rituals

-  Improved business logic/algorithms that regulated the core data for company products

-  Took initiative to grow the business by interviewing team members in various departments, identifying employee/client needs, and offering innovative technical solutions

Senior Frontend Developer

Stack: React, JavaScript, Django, Redux, AWS, Elastic Search

-  Built the foundation of an enterprise-level progressive web application with React, Redux, Axios, Django, AWS S3, and Elastic

-  Lived Agile methodologies to coordinate, test, and deliver business valued features:

-  Student Travel / University Onboarding, Metrics / Analytics Dashboard, Profile, and marketing pages

-  Adding, Voting, Commenting, and Searching content

Insights Abroad

Lead Software Engineer (Remote)

CalHEERS project - working on the full stack of a web app that determines the benefits a person is entitled to under The Affordable Care Act and allows them to enroll in eligible plans.

Stack: AWS, Java, React, Spring, Springboot

-  Became a certified ICAgile professional

-  Mentored junior developers

-  Ensured architectural design and development

-  Refactored and decoupled Spring MVC services to Spring Boot

-  Protected and validated services with rigorous parameterized JUnit tests

-  Adhered to a scalable adapter & command object-oriented design pattern

-  Implemented admin features in React

Accenture

Full Stack Software Engineer

Responsible for full stack development of the companies web application.

Stack: AWS, React, Redux, Express, NodeJS, MongoDB, Mongoose

-  Developed and animated a today page where users can capture all the tasks they want to accomplish and start/stop/postpone/log them

-  Laid the foundation for the admin platform that analyzes and visualizes user engagement metrics

-  Established backend API rest services in Node.js, MongoDB, Axios, and Redux

-  Integrated Stripe Payment Processing API to Node.js backend

People-OnTheGo

Full Stack Software Engineer (Remote)

Develop and integrate key web application features to track performance and productivity using AngularJS.

Stack: Azure, AngularJS, 4D

-  Developed key features for employee productivity/payroll/management

-  Delivered project report generator features that employees used to inform and bill their clients

-  Billable projects - Used a Kendo Grid table to display company projects that are still within the billing process. It supports exporting the table into excel and pdf

-  Printable score card - Used radials and custom CSS to display a printable detail of a particular project. It also has a finical dynamic progress bar

-  Edit CSI codes - Added a button to a displayed Kendo grid that opened a modal where a user can add company role codes to a project

COBE Construction Inc.

Software Engineer Intern

Developed a progressive web application for a guild anticipating the release of a video game Pantheon: Rise of The Fallen.

Stack: Heroku, React, Redux, Django

-  Lived agile methodologies to coordinate, test, and deliver business valued features for the client and community:

-  Messaging system for users to create message groups to converse and share data with hundreds of other people

-  Admin panel for guild officers to manage roster, permissions, roles, ticket requests, and polls

-  Calendar system for users to schedule events/groups/raids for others to RSVP to

-  Poll system for guild members to create detailed and robust forms for others to fill out

-  Article and newsletter system for guild members to publish lore and content

-  Media API system that combined the guild’s Twitter, Discord, YouTube, and Twitch content

-  Ticket system to provide customer support and user grievances

-  Profile page for users to edit personal/in-game information such as character's name, level, role, race, class, and profession

-  Achievement system for users to earn badges and guild currency from engaging with the web app

-  Image galleries for users to create picture galleries and associate them with their profile

Voices of Terminus

Sales Consultant, Computers and Tablets

-  Lead employee training for associates and consultants

Best Buy

Sales Consultant

Sales Associate, Home Theater

-  Achieved sales that averaged $650/hour and 8 credit card applications/day

-  Built good rapport between colleagues and customers

Sales Associate

Sales Consultant, Computers and Tablets

-  Lead employee training for part-time and seasonal associates

-  Achieve national margin averages of $100/hour

-  Recognized as a top performer with highest margins 3  months in a row

Nathan Foster