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Gaston Walker
Frontend Engineer
A senior front-end heavy full stack engineer with 8+ years of professional experience in web and mobile app development. A dedicated developer who focuses on interactive website development using modern JavaScript technologies such as React/Next.js and Vue.js/Nuxt.js. In addition, have rich experience using Next.js, Nuxt.js, GraphQL and worked extensively on Enzyme, Jest and Cypress for testing. Passionate about working with motivated teams and getting things done.
Careers
Full Stack Engineer
Cars
- • Worked in a distributed Agile/Scrum team with 20 members.
- • Created scripts and microservices using Node.js to be used by core products.
- • Developed and maintained features for the back-end services of the company with Agile methodologies. Deployed to AWS using EC2/Lambda/S3.
- • Integrated Stripe API for mobile application payment system.
- • Set up a new architecture and moved 100% of the codebase to clear the technical debt.
- • Developed unit tests using Jest and React testing library for React components and integration tests using Cypress to test the functionality's end-to-end (E2E) flow.
- • Created the front-end elements using React for chatbot application.
- • Implemented and deployed several algorithms (classification, clustering, NLP, and computer vision) for different use cases.
Senior Frontend Engineer
BCBS
- • Worked in a distributed Agile/Scrum team with 7 members.
- • Took legacy app built with MERN stack and brought it into an MVC pattern by encapsulating existing code structures.
- • Worked on optimizing the performance to improve app loading time.
- • Implemented several complex UI components with React/TypeScript and Tailwind CSS.
- • Created the admin portal with React from scratch in 2 months with features like different user roles, uploads using CSV files, managing content and more.
- • Designed a responsive single-page application using React, Gatsby, and Tailwind CSS to display business information across various devices.
Powered Labs
Full Stack Developer
- • Collaborated with startups on establishing their data infrastructure, discipline, and teams.
- • Integrated Firebase to host the application since it didn't need a back-end.
- • Rebuilt most important pages (the business page) from scratch, using advanced CSS features for layout and interaction.
- • Created dynamically populated data filters as dropdowns, checkbox groups, input fields, sliders, etc. in order to evaluate and pivot market data analysis charts.
- • Consulted with customers and other departments on project status, proposals and technical issues, such as software system design and maintenance.
- • Analyzed user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
- • Wrote unit and end-to-end tests using Jest to ensure that the APIs are working as expected.
- • Leveraged mastery of HTML, CSS and JavaScript to build top-quality code for diverse projects.
Education
Florida University
Computer Science
My projects
Sky Scanner
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Skyscanner is a global travel search site where people can plan and book directly from millions of travel options around the world at reasonable prices. From flights to hotels and car hire, it works side-by-side with the biggest names
Role: Senior Full Stack Engineer
Completed: 11/2021
Live project: https://www.skyscanner.com/
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