Ben Spak

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♦ Optimized and maintained 50+ client websites, ensuring high performance, security, and scalability with React, Vue, PHP, and WordPress. ♦ Conducted 100+ technical SEO audits, resolving indexing issues, enhancing site speed by 40%, and boosting rankings.

♦ Responsible for linux customer service and end user happiness.

♦ Created and maintained ADA-compliant landing pages and career websites for talent acquisition campaigns with WordPress (CMS), PHP7, SASS, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS, and Javascript (ES5. ES6). ♦ Created new developer onboarding documentation and training videos to help jr developers joining the team. ♦ Assisted Sr developer with implementing security headers and CSP for attack vector reduction. Used: PHP 5 & 7. Wordpress ACF (Advanced Custom Fields), Bootstrap, SCSS, HTML 5, GitHub, Lity.js, Slick.js, Asana, Monday, jQuery, Gulp, Hub Spot CMS, CSP, HubL, ADA-compliant web development, site speed optimization.

♦ Worked with PHP 7, the Yii Framework, CSS, HTML, and Bootstrap to redesign, and develop the internal facing staff portal user interface (UI). ♦ Identified, troubleshot, and fixed numerous bugs affecting the operation of the online school, such as student trimester GPAs that were miscalculated. ♦ Administered, and maintained containerized Docker instances hosted on an Azure dev environment. Worked with: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, PHP 7, SQL, Docker (Usage), GitHub, Jira, Yii 1.1 and Yii 2.

Technically the founder, but most of my day to day responsibilities were in the scope of a MERN stack developer, software manager & scrum master. ♦ Sourced, interviewed, and mentored a core team of 3 fully remote, multi-time zone, jr developers, many of whom landed better full-time roles after working on the project. ♦ Developed a REST API in Express (Node JS) for the job board CRUD actions with a MongoDB backend. ♦ Coordinated the design, and development of the React-based responsive UI components with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript ES6. ♦ Provided product & sprint planning leadership using Agile Methodology, and SCRUM best practices. Used: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript ES6/7, Bootstrap, Node.js, Discord.js, Data Mining(Puppeteer API), Headless Chrome, MongoDB, React JS, Agile Methodology, SCRUM, User Interviews, UX Research. For more information about CodeCareer's former team composition Ajea Smith eloquently describes it in detail: https://medium.com/dev-genius/working-with-a-startup-like-dev-team-b7037c18a78b

Web application consulting & contracting. ♦ Worked with notable companies: Red Clay Interactive, Park National Bank. ♦ Performed: UI/UX reviews, website maintenance, front-end development, MVP creation, technical SEO (Site speed and indexing), IT leadership, team building and Digital marketing Used: Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Wordpress, Slack, Trello, BitBucket, Agile/Scrum, Jira, jQuery, PHP.

Startup experience. Worked with clients: Mr Scratch Off, 4 Rivers & Gallaher Edge & Iron Hack. ♦ Performed SEO & UX audits to address site speed & SEO performance issues. ♦ Performed Front-end development for Gallaher Edge’s new join & home pages. ♦ Created Facebook & PPC advertising campaigns to generate new leads for clients. Used: Asana, Funelytics, SERP Book, SEMRush, Mail Chimp, Zeplin.io, Bootstrap, Gulp, HTML, CSS, Wordpress (PHP), Slack.

Managed the transition project from a pre-existing buggy code base to a production ready e-commerce website that assists the company in earning millions per year. ♦ Sourced potential outside contractors for the subsequent phases of the project. ♦ Managed development sprints with outside contractors & reported to key stakeholders. ♦ Wireframed and redesigned the front-end UI to be more user-friendly & with a higher conversion rate. Used: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Django, Angular, Python, Beautiful Soup, Digital Ocean, Apache, Nginx, PHP 7, Wordpress, WooCommerce, VSCode, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Ubuntu (16.04, 18.04), AWS.

♦ Attended an immersive full-stack Python and Javascript boot camp where we implemented Domain Driven Design, software engineering, data structures, and algorithms, and assessed code complexity. ♦ Collaborated with another software engineer to diagram, and build a full-stack Django application with Docker and polling-based microservices. ♦ Created full-stack web applications using JavaScript, Python, React + Hooks, Django, and Docker.

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