About Me
Who Am I
I'm a bilingual senior frontend developer who is working on his full stack citizenship. I love attending tech meetups and working alongside other highly motivated developers. I have a passion for clean, performant and a11y code. A healthy culture and a team that works well together is very important to me.
From Carpenter to Developer
During the winter of 2015, I decided to stop my career as a carpenter and pursue the life of a developer. I began by taking courses on Team Treehouse, then moved onto creating projects with what I had learned. 10 months later, I got a mentorship with SimpTek. A month after my mentorship, they wanted to officially hire me full time, at which point I kept working hard to climb up the ladder of responsibilities. To this day, I continue to learn new technologies, work on side projects and go to code meetups.
Education
Self-Taught
I am a self-taught developer who mostly learned by:
Collaborating on projects
Reading documentation
Taking online courses
Reverse engineering
Reading other developers blocks
Listening to Frontend podcasts
Reviewing the work of my peers
Through my work
Attending meetups
Skills
Linguistics
- HTML
- CSS
- SCSS
- Styled Component
- Vanilla Javascript
- Typescript
- React
- Next.js
- Gatsby
- React Redux
- Redux Toolkit
- Gsap (Greenstock)
- GraphQl
- Liquid
- Tailwind
Frontend Proficiencies
- a11y (Accessibility)
- SEO
- Google Search Console
- Schema.org/Rich Markup
- Setting up multiple environments
- Eslint
- API
- Implementing UI libraries
- Shopify
- Email building
- Custom gmail signature
- Formatting print page
- Populating Google Sheets with data
- Deploy code to production
- Vercel SWR
- Zod
- Next.js Server Components
- Miro
- Iframe embeds
Project Management Platforms
- Monday
- Asana
- Trello - Atlassian
- Jira - Atlassian
- Confluence - Atlassian
- Linear
Other 3rd Party Platforms
- Contentful
- Netlify
- Vercel
- Authentication - Supabase
- Database - Supabase
- Github
- GitLab
- Slack
Experience In
- Team Lead
- Project manager
- Conducting efficient meetings
- Conducting product demos
- Writing documentation
- Design feedback & review
- Mentor junior developers
Experiences
React Frontend Developer
LivescaleLivescale is a live shopping platform that integrates real-time video with e-commerce to provide interactive and engaging shopping experiences. It offers businesses tools to host live video events, manage audience interactions, and facilitate instant purchases.
Worked on multiple applications/projects using Typescript with NextJS version 13
Managed my own projects
Presented Demo's to other internal departments
Offer quick response to emergencies
Created a Shopify app and Shopify embed app
Created a script for our clients to use that allowed them to embed a live room experience on their website.
Worked with Mux Player and Mux Uploader
Worked with Tailwind and Storybook
Created documentations
Collaborate with our Designer to optimize customer experience
React Frontend Developer Freelancer
SpafaxThe project I am working on for Spafax is https://enroute.aircanada.com. It is a blog platform that is built in such a way that allows my client and their team of editors to create and adjust custom pages without having to use up any additional developer time.
In direct communication with my clients via Slack, Monday.com & video calls
In charge of ensuring great SEO
Always evaluating ROI feedback on optimizations they may or may not have requested
Offer quick response to emergencies
Capable of quickly reverting the site's version via the use of Netlify
Enable editors to have autonomy over page creation with the use of templates and modules (lego blocks) on Contentful
All pages have an English and French version
Pages are generated statically with the use of Gatsby
React Frontend Developer
RenoRunUsing the Renorun platform, a user can order and have building materials delivered within hours of their purchase.
Built React features using React Redux global state management
Handled payment related tasks
Used Agile Methodology project management approach
Frequently performed Code Reviews
Participated in many lunch and learns & retro specs
Reviewed and gave feedback on designs
Wrote and managed project scopes
Create tasks based on project scopes I would write
React Frontend Developer
PactPact is a consultant agency that handles everything from Frontend, Backend, DevOps, Design, SEO, Accessibility Compliance, Copy, ... anything website related, we did it.
Create and implement the projects CMS (Contentful mostly)
Offer support to the Shopify developers
Jump from project to project to implement Accessibility best practices
Build projects from start to finish
Inherit projects, improve and maintain them
In direct communication with my clients
Offer quick response to emergencies
Always evaluating ROI feedback on optimizations they may or may not have requested
Frontend Developer Freelancer
RenoRunUsing the Renorun platform, a user can order and have building materials delivered within hours of their purchase.
Help their team of Dart and Angular* (I can't remember the version they used) developers with some Bootstrap marketplace template
Offered support in Angular*
Attend and lead meetings
Angular Frontend Developer & Team Lead
SimpTekSimpTek was a startup company that focused on big data energy analytics. They would install hardware in user's home which would then display useful information in regard to their power usage on a Dashboard they had access too.
Create new or adjust previous processes
Delegate tasks to the Front-End team
Held Frontend interviews
Held performance reviews
Ensure no one within the tech team was blocked and if they were, work toward unblocking them
Represented the tech team in meetings
Research on new technologies to better the efficiency and effectiveness of the Tech Team
Wrote many documentations such as project scope, feature definitions, processes, terminology/definitions related goods
Lead sprints and their retro specs
Conducted demo’s of the current product & upcoming features
Created, tested and managed custom emails
Worked on both version 1 and 2 of their dashboard
Worked on both version 1 and 2 of their marketing site