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Studied & expanded knowledge of full stack web development using ReactJS, NodeJS, and MongoDB. Learned & applied fundamental computer science concepts.

Thinkful

Ongoing development of skills & latest tech using a subscription to Team Treehouse. In 2013, learned the basics of HTML and CSS, and over the years have evolved into a Full Stack Web Developer specializing in ReactJS and NodeJS.https://teamtreehouse.com/mikeconstantino

Treehouse

Attended Lake Sumter State College to pursue an AA degree.

Lake-Sumter State College

Senior Software Engineer I

Software Engineer II

As a Senior Software Engineer at PRPL, my development efforts shifted from the standard creative agency projects to working as a contingent worker with Facebook on their infrastructure/stack. Additionally, my focus shifted inwards towards internal process efforts and mentoring and leading developers on the PRPL team.

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities include:
- Acting as a primary developer in multiple agile and waterfall based projects.
- Develop and maintain large-scale applications used by thousands of users.
- Work with designers, strategists, and project managers to create a wide variety of polished projects in a rapid, agile environment.
- Adapting to a rapidly changing work environment and industry - jumping from problem solving and porting legacy projects, to creating future-proof product experiences.
- Head projects and find new efficiencies in them to rapidly develop high level components, and focus on experience-enhancing details.
- Work to find new ways to make code reusable, efficient, and understandable on a per-project basis
- Work with designers, project managers, and strategists to plan, prototype, and develop new features for existing applications.
- Collaborate directly with clients to identify realistic business goals and come up with adequate solutions.
- Develop full stack web products with ReactJS and NodeJS.
- Maintain and create backend code with technologies like PHP and related frameworks.
- Continuously setup and maintain dev-ops server environments with docker, nginx, etc.
- Adapting between both agile and waterfall projects, flexible and proficient in both.

Product Developer

Contract Engineer @ Facebook, working primarily with the Facebook Connectivity team on the Facebook stack

Engineer

Responsibilities include:
- Develop and test web pages.
- Adequately communicate with clients to achieve a final product.
- Use problem-solving skills to deal with client issues on a daily basis (over phone, email, etc)
- Develop full stack web products with ReactJS and NodeJS.
- Develop webpages using WordPress within client's vision.
- Deal with day-to-day issues that arise & problem solve to come to a solution.

Web Developer

Responsibilities included:
- Supervise others and provide on-the-job training.
- Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints.
- Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins.
- Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.
- Sell tickets and other items to customers.
- Process merchandise returns and exchanges.
- Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
- Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales.
- Monitor checkout stations to ensure that they have adequate cash available and that they are staffed appropriately.
- Assist with duties in other areas of the store, such as bagging and carrying out customers' items.
- Pay company bills by cash, vouchers, or checks.
- Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales.