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Robert Mead III

Robert Mead III

Full Stack Software Engineer

Michigan, US, 48154
English

Background


About

About

8+ years' experience engineering solutions and consulting for leading companies in tech, finance, e-commerce, and market research. Acquired a deep understanding of the entire Software Development Life Cycle hands on through multiple roles, perspectives, and industries. Contributed to driving a 9-figure increase in Annualized Incremental Revenue as a Senior Engineer for a Fortune 500 international e-commerce retailer. Transformed a product vision into a fully functional production web application within 6 months.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Software Developer, Veracity

    Aug, 2024 - Mar, 20261 year 7 months

    Contributed to the growth of a startup specializing Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions for industrial infrastructure.

    • Learned the SDN space and product offerings to support development of an application for managing network topology, devices, and configurations

    • Implemented a multi-NIC backup system allowing users to configure specific network interfaces for use on the controller

    • Designed and built scheduled backup functionality to allow users to push backups to a remote server

    • Collaborated with team members to design features, troubleshoot issues, and ensure application performance and reliability

  • Full Stack Engineer, BOOST

    Jul, 2023 - Apr, 20249 months

    Developed a greenfield web application integrating multiple third-party APIs.

    • Developed a greenfield web application integrating multiple third-party APIs, implementing Auth0 Roles/Permissions for user account segregation and API route access control

    • Led backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions, defining project scope, and creating clear, actionable tickets with defined acceptance criteria

    • Designed and built an admin tool for record management, customized Auth0 login flow, and email templates to match brand styles

    • Utilized Figma mockups to develop React components and Next.js pages, modifying Next.js middleware for specialized routing logic and implementing the Next.js App router for client-server and admin portal separation

    • Collaborated with stakeholders to document new requirements, produced mockups to validate functionality, and worked with Python developers and data scientists to establish Docker container setups for running NLG projects

  • Senior Engineer, Launch by NTT DATA

    Dec, 2019 - Jul, 20233 years 7 months

    Senior Engineer for a Rapid Experimentation Productization Scrum team for a Fortune 500 international e-commerce retailer.

    • Contributed to driving a 9-figure increase in Annualized Incremental Revenue by collaborating with PMO, Analytics, UX/UI, and Architecture teams to design and implement new features in both modern (micro-frontends) and legacy (Java Spring Boot) web applications using Vue and Vuex, Java, JavaScript, FTL, HTML, CSS, and Sass

    • Improved team's overall experience level by providing guidance and mentorship to teammates, and learning from them via pair programming, design reviews, and pull request commentary

    • Ensured performance and quality of deliverables to prod environment by developing automated E2E tests using Selenium and Evergreen, and unit tests using Jest, as well as utilizing SonarQube for static code quality checking to ensure coverage for lines and branches were above 80%

    • Heavily utilized both Fisheye for Subversion, and Github for Git version control to manage several cross-team repositories, forks, and branches

    • Served team as second in command Tech Lead when direct lead was on leave to ensure stable productivity by stepping up to handle Change Request forms during release cycles, direct communication with Product Owners and client-side Engineering Managers, presenting Technical Playbooks for review to Engineering Architects, leading the team through SCRUM ceremonies, and providing guidance to teammates

  • Front-end Engineer, Launch by NTT DATA

    Dec, 2019 - Jul, 20233 years 7 months

    Front-end Engineer for a fast-moving insurance startup specializing in simplifying and enhancing the UX of the workers' comp process for small businesses.

    • Streamlined insurance application process for consumers by implementing multi-step forms with branching logic in a React-Redux SPA

    • Enforced separation of concerns by using the Container/Presentational pattern when developing React components

    • Utilized snapshot testing within application CI/CD pipeline to test HTML markup, JSX, and CSS styles were correct, as well as static checking tools to ensure quality of delivered code

  • Full Stack Engineer, Launch by NTT DATA

    Dec, 2019 - Jul, 20233 years 7 months

    Internal Project – Showcase Checkout API: Ecommerce Checkout API endpoints implemented in Node and TypeScript within an Azure Functions app that interfaced with a Cosmos database.

    • Assisted the Ecommerce Checkout front-end team by learning about the Azure cloud platform in order to triage and resolve CI/CD pipeline build and deployment issues

    • Built a health checker endpoint to validate that the Azure Functions Application was live, as well as ensuring the Cosmos DB connection was successful in real time

    • Followed Agile best practices and ceremonies for Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Retrospectives, and Daily Standups

    • Leveraged Azure DevOps to manage team boards, pipelines, code repositories, and pull requests

  • Full Stack Engineer, Launch by NTT DATA

    Dec, 2019 - Jul, 20233 years 7 months

    Internal Project - Planning Poker: Contributed to development of a sprint capacity planning application.

    • Contributed to development of a sprint capacity planning application leveraging React functional components, Redux, JSX, HTML, and CSS with a self-organizing Scrum team

    • Mentored junior front-end developers by helping them understand the application architecture and associated design patterns

    • Utilized GitLab for version control and pull requests

  • Developer, Credit Acceptance

    Mar, 2019 - Dec, 20199 months

    Developer supporting the collections department.

    • Created and implemented enhancement features using proprietary programming language to support the efforts of the collections department to increase revenue

    • Assisted internal end users in understanding application features to accomplish their goals, as well as understand the current limitations to design future enhancements

    • Collaborated with business stakeholders as an agile team in Kanban environment during Planning, Backlog Grooming, Retrospectives, and Daily Standups

  • Programmer, Gongos

    Jul, 2016 - Mar, 20192 years 8 months

    Devised custom research solutions to support project teams in conducting marketing research.

    • Devised custom research solutions using .NET, C#, SQL, HTML, CSS, jQuery, and JavaScript in order to support project teams in conducting marketing research

    • Developed custom MVC survey logic to support gathering quantitative market research data in C#

    • Ensured data collected was valid using SQL views and custom queries to inspect responses, and also correct any mistakes or ad-hoc scope changes in the database

    • Reduced risk of modifying production data during required mutations by wrapping SQL queries in SQL transactions so that the changes could be tested, rolled-back, and finally committed to maintain data integrity

Skills

Skills

  • Frontend Development

    React

    HTML/CSS

    jQuery

    Vue

    Next

    Vercel

    Tailwind

    MaterialUI

    Typescript

  • Backend Development

    NodeJS

    Postman

    Java

    Azure Functions

    REST APIs

    Ruby

    C# / .NET

    Vercel Functions

    Auth0

    Python

    MongoDB

    Postgres

    SQL

  • Version Control

    Git

    Subversion

    Github

    Fisheye

  • Project Management & Documentation

    Jira

    Confluence

    Trello

    Azure DevOps

Education

Education

  • Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration, Western Michigan University

    Sep, 2011 - May, 2015

Certificates

Certificates