Resume for Nate Clark

resume.json

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  "basics": {
    "name": "Nate Clark",
    "label": "Full-stack Jedi",
    "picture": "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5e6be4ee4a6556cea4663b3f4f727b38.jpg?s=128&r=g",
    "email": "n8@n8io.com",
    "phone": "",
    "website": "https://dev.to/n8io",
    "summary": "A full-stack engineer developer/mentor/blogger with 15+ years experience building scalable web applications and a passion for learning.",
    "location": {
      "address": "",
      "postalCode": "",
      "city": "Akron",
      "countryCode": "US",
      "region": "Ohio"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "Nate Clark",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/n8clark"
      },
      {
        "network": "Github",
        "username": "n8io",
        "url": "http://github.com/n8io"
      },
      {
        "network": "Twitter",
        "username": "n8c14rk",
        "url": "http://twitter.com/n8c14rk"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "company": "ZEAL Inc.",
      "position": "Senior Full-stack Engineer, Consultant",
      "website": "https://codingzeal.com",
      "startDate": "2018-02-01",
      "summary": "Help clients, big and a small achieve their goals in the most efficient way possible. Apply my experience through collaboration and shared learning.",
      "highlights": [
        "Promoter of functional programming. Trained several teams to use Ramda/Lodash fp",
        "Manage numerous small teams in a player/coach capacity",
        "Built out a greenfield UX for a piece of proprietary hardware from conception to customer delivery",
        "Implemented SSR using NextJs to provide a fast, SEO friendly user experience",
        "Drove patterns and best practices at each client",
        "Leveraged pairing as a tool to level up fellow developers",
        "Shared strong opinions while being receptive to change",
        "Enforced WCAG / ADA compliance as table stakes",
        "Acted as a catalyst to positive change on every project",
        "🤓 React, Node, GraphQL, NextJs, Razzle, Material UI, ExpressJs, Postgres, Docker, Ramda, Typescript"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Software Residency at LEARN Academy",
      "position": "Mentor",
      "website": "https://www.learnacademy.org",
      "startDate": "2020-12-01",
      "summary": "Prepare bootcamp students for their first jobs in a software engineering career",
      "highlights": [
        "Advised student cohort during capstone project",
        "Provided feedback and instruction through pairing",
        "Perform code reviews",
        "🤓 React, Javascript, Html"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Simple City",
      "position": "Co-Founder / CTO / Lead Developer",
      "website": "https://simplecityllc.com",
      "startDate": "2017-06-01",
      "summary": "Built a modern event managment system to streamline volunteer placement that is actively used by several pro sports venues including FirstEnergy Stadium, Paul Brown Stadium, and Quicken Loans Arena",
      "highlights": [
        "Mastered React as a static frontend with a GraphQL backend",
        "From UI to DB. Implemented entire AWS stack solution hosting an enterprise level application",
        "Harnessed the opportunity to leverage all the automation and code quality tools of my choosing",
        "Static React/Apollo driven frontend hosted via CloudFront cdn",
        "Learned and implemented GraphQL queries, mutations and deployed on AWS ECS",
        "Docker all the things. Local dev, dev env, and prod all leverage the same docker containers",
        "Implemented entire CI/CD pipeline with blue/green deployments",
        "🤓 React, Node, GraphQL, AWS, CircleCi, Docker, Auth0"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Self-employed, freelance work",
      "position": "Full-stack Engineer / Remote worker",
      "startDate": "2017-01-01",
      "endDate": "2016-10-01",
      "summary": "Worked with seed investor to convert an original idea into a functioning online application",
      "highlights": [
        "Lead a small, but extremely competent team to wrangle product ideas into real requirements",
        "Learned how to best communicate with the product team to manage expectations",
        "🤓 React, Node, MeteorJs, ExpressJs, Postgres"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Twin Technologies",
      "position": "Full-stack Developer / Team Lead",
      "website": "http://twintechs.com",
      "startDate": "2016-04-01",
      "endDate": "2016-10-01",
      "summary": "Responsible for a contractor team, leading the development of multiple React / NodeJs driven applications and services.",
      "highlights": [
        "Helped bring existing ecommerce site into WCAG / ADA compliance",
        "Worked directly with Under Armour development teams on their ecommerce site, underarmour.com",
        "Successfully managed a team across multiple timezones",
        "Contributed to a vast Javascript ecosystem and actively deployed changes to production through CI/CD pipepline",
        "In addition to task work, also performed code reviews and assisted team with architecture decisions",
        "Implemented Slack bots to automate status and pull request reports",
        "Contributed to Apple Pay integration project",
        "Gained familiarity with React patterns and practices on an already very familiar understanding of client/server js",
        "Fully committed to remote work and the communication surrounding that environment",
        "🤓 React, Node, GraphQL"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "IgnitionOne",
      "position": "UX Architect & Javascript Player-Coach",
      "website": "http://ignitionone.com",
      "startDate": "2010-10-01",
      "endDate": "2016-04-01",
      "summary": "Responsible for several micro teams, leading the development of multiple Angular / NodeJs driven applications.",
      "highlights": [
        "Strong background in Javascript using the following frameworks AngularJs, NodeJs, ExpressJs, Bootstrap",
        "Implemented the conversion of legacy applications to Angular driven SPA",
        "Conducted several Angular and NodeJs bootcamps for junior developers. Prefer to show others how rather than telling them to figure it out.",
        "Provided boilerplate Node.Js project that stood as the foundation for all new development",
        "Introduced html and css precompilers to improve both quality and remove bloat",
        "Wrapped development build process and deploys into a pretty little bow with Grunt/Gulp",
        "Responsible for rapid proof of concept and prototyping of mocks for Product evaluation",
        "DRY code evangelist",
        "Directed a geographically dispersed team of web developers",
        "Advocate micro service architecture. Do one thing simply and efficiently",
        "Participate in upfront design meetings: brainstorming, gathering requirements, white-boarding",
        "Interface with graphic designers and developers to streamline work and ensure delivery of design vision",
        "Establish design and usability patterns for team",
        "Address usability concerns early on in SDLC",
        "Led the charge (and won the war) for the strict support of evergreen browsers only",
        "Successfully delivered 3 core application redesigns with micro teams and equivalently small timelines",
        "🤓 Angular, AngularJs, NodeJs, ExpressJs, Twitter Bootstrap, Postgres"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "OEConnection",
      "position": "Software Engineer I-III",
      "website": "http://oeconnection.com",
      "startDate": "2008-09-01",
      "endDate": "2010-10-01",
      "summary": "C#, ASP.Net web developer driving UI refresh of fordparts.com",
      "highlights": [
        "Manage proxy between services and front end",
        "Provide asynchronous means of data refreshing",
        "Core contributor to fordparts.com",
        "Implemented several third party jQuery plugins to achieve a modern interface",
        "🤓 C#, ASP.NET, MSSQL, Rest APIs, JQuery"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "OEConnection",
      "position": "Database Developer",
      "website": "http://oeconnection.com",
      "startDate": "2006-07-01",
      "endDate": "2008-09-01",
      "summary": "Database development including scripting, stored procedure generation, data structure creation and optimization.",
      "highlights": [
        "Optimizing/creating the CRUD procedures for service developers",
        "Providing a tsql style guide and enforced the use of it",
        "Introduced patterns and practices that saved DBAs time and effort during deployments",
        "🤓 MSSQL, Team Foundation Server"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Healthcare Consulting Benefits Review (acquired by Xerox)",
      "position": "Entry Level Developer",
      "website": "http://xerox.com",
      "startDate": "2004-09-01",
      "endDate": "2006-07-01",
      "summary": "Small insurance consulting company DBA and WinForms developer.",
      "highlights": [
        "Responsible for audit platform that lead to the company being purchased by Xerox in 2006",
        "Data-mined and queried large data sets to find financial loss patterns",
        "Coupled database work with a WinForm application to visually display points of interest",
        "Integrated SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services)",
        "🤓 VB.Net, MSSQL"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "volunteer": [],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Ohio Northern University",
      "area": "Computer Science",
      "studyType": "Bachelor's",
      "startDate": "1999-09-01",
      "endDate": "2004-05-01",
      "gpa": "",
      "courses": []
    }
  ],
  "awards": [],
  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "Public Repositories",
      "publisher": "Github",
      "releaseDate": "2012-07-31",
      "website": "https://github.com/n8io",
      "summary": "Tinkering and open source forks"
    },
    {
      "name": "boilerplate-monorepo",
      "publisher": "Github",
      "releaseDate": "2020-03-01",
      "website": "https://github.com/n8io/boilerplate-monorepo",
      "summary": "A monorepo setup for winning."
    },
    {
      "name": "Developer Dark Arts (series)",
      "publisher": "dev.to",
      "releaseDate": "2020-05-20",
      "website": "https://dev.to/n8io/series/11145",
      "summary": "A blog series dedicated to some anti-patterns and solutions for them"
    },
    {
      "name": "Debug as Code",
      "publisher": "dev.to",
      "releaseDate": "2020-09-25",
      "website": "https://dev.to/n8io/debug-as-code-15mn",
      "summary": "How your debugging statements should be long lived in your implementations"
    },
    {
      "name": "Public Repos",
      "publisher": "Github",
      "releaseDate": "2012-08-01",
      "website": "https://github.com/n8io",
      "summary": "All of my side projects, musings, and outside 9-5 work"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Team Technical Leadership",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Agile",
        "SCRUM",
        "Fully Remote Capable",
        "Results Driven Approach",
        "Hungry",
        "Humble"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "React",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Functional components",
        "Hooks",
        "Suspense",
        "Lazy Loading",
        "Jest",
        "React router",
        "Redux",
        "Apollo"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "HTML5 / UX / UI",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "WCAG/ADA",
        "i18n",
        "SEO",
        "CSS Grid",
        "Tailwind CSS",
        "Material UI",
        "Twitter Bootstrap"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Database/Datastore",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": ["Postgres", "MSSQL", "MongoDB", "Redis"]
    },
    {
      "name": "NodeJs",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": ["Express", "Hygen", "Codegen", "Cli Tooling"]
    },
    {
      "name": "GraphQL",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": [
        "Schema stiching",
        "Fragments",
        "Queries",
        "Mutations",
        "Apollo"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Leveraging PaaS/SaaS",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": [
        "AWS",
        "Serverless",
        "Docker",
        "Terraform",
        "Heroku",
        "Digital Ocean"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "CI/CD",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": [
        "Github Actions",
        "CircleCI",
        "BitBucket Pipelines",
        "Digital Ocean",
        "Heroku"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Dev/Build Tools",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": [
        "Git",
        "Yarn/Npm",
        "Docker",
        "Webpack",
        "Babel",
        "EsLink",
        "Prettier"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Recent Learnings",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "CloudFlare Offerings",
        "Kubernetes",
        "NextJs",
        "Typescript",
        "React Query"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hello Worlds",
      "level": "Beginner",
      "keywords": ["Firebase", "FaunaDb", "Google Cloud"]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Teaching others",
      "keywords": [
        "Coding patterns",
        "Strong opinions",
        "Humility",
        "Readability is key",
        "Javascript frameworks",
        "React",
        "Apollo",
        "GraphQL",
        "NodeJs"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Contributing to open source projects",
      "keywords": [
        "@n8io/boilerplate-monorepo",
        "@n8io/jelly-beans",
        "100+ original, public Github repos",
        "ChanceJs",
        "FantasyData API"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "What is Nate learning right now?",
      "keywords": [
        "Functional programming",
        "Remix",
        "React",
        "Serverless",
        "CloudFlare Workers",
        "Ephemeral Deploys",
        "FaunaDb",
        "Typescript"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Other nerding",
      "keywords": [
        "Home automation",
        "Raspberry Pi",
        "Aquaponics",
        "Tesla Fanboy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "references": []
}