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designing your imagination
Sea Otter Studio
I have 9+ years of Full Stack Senior Development experience
Specialized in finding your most valuable actions and bringing your concepts to life.
Ideation to Conception
Manifesting your reality in one week. Explore my portfolio of iterative, scalable, and maintainable software.
Crucible:
Realtime Revenue Tracking Dashboard
Description:
Developed a dashboard to track realtime revenue attribution for ad delivery and visualize it with a query builder. Features of this product includes authentication with a SaaS service and authorized using JWT tokens. A high performance and low cost database design, ingesting 20 million daily rows and returning query responses within 300ms.
Stack:
- Svelte
- Node
- Tailwind CSS
- SQLite
- Clickhouse
- Cloudlfare
Open Parking System:
Parking Registration for Stratas
Description:
Designed a parking registration and enforcement software to solve the problem where strata parking spaces have insufficient churn. Features of this product includes authorization integration with property management systems, live registration monitoring with websockets, dynamic rule configurations by Strata, and reporting on parking usage statistics.
Stack:
- Astro
- Node
- Tailwind CSS
- SQLite
- Cloudflare
Latest Learnings & Experiences
View all posts »Join me on a journey into questions of web development and everything that I have learned along the way.
Choosing a Framework for My Static Site
There are so many frameworks for starting a site. I went on a journey to find the right framework to build a home for Sea Otter Studios. Here are the reasons why I ended up choosing Astro.
Reactivity in Astro
As I was learning to use the Astro framework, I wanted to learn about idiomatic implementations within Astro. Here is what I learned about implementing reactivity in Astro.
My Specializations
These are areas where I can help your business.
Web Applications
Build out your application feature set using the latest technologies at performance and at scale. I work in Typescript, Go, and Python: A full stack front end, back end, data pipelines, and devops.
Digital Publishing
Need help with SEO, delivery and monetization? I have experience with Google Ads, Google Ad Manager, Google Tag Manager, and Google Search Console
E-commerce
Working on implementing your products and conversion optimizations? I have experience with Woocommerce, Hubspot, Google Ads, and Data Analysis
Code Quality (CI/CD)
Align your code base with a git workflow, jenkins, or AWS codebuild implementation. Go to production from 0-60 and reduce your impacts from a failed build. Automate the boring and adhere to coding styles using black, prettier, or gofmt
Performance Optimizations
Implement reporting and alerting on your KPIs to always reach your goals. As well as optimize on web vitals for the best user experience while following the recommended security practices
Data Analysis
Capture and review your data to capitalize on key findings. Identify actionable items using a wide feature set and honing in with a correlative matrix
Testing
Stop wasting time on over engineered unit tests, add useful compile time checkers and maximize value with end to end testing
Experimenting
Unable to decide on action A or B? Add A/B testing to continuously experiment and use data to determine what's best for your users
Client Testimonials
Discover what clients have to say about their experiences working with me.
Brian is a manager of one. He produces spectacular results with little direction. Not to mention he's a great person and awesome to work with.
I'm going to keep trying to convince Brian to come work with me full time. Eventually I'll be able to afford to make him an offer he can't refuse so you better hire him before I do.
Andrew Fowler
CEO and Founder@YieldGoal IO
I had the pleasure of working with Brian for a couple great years in the AdTech space, and he constantly amazed me with the depth of his knowledge, his insatiable desire to build great products, and his unending curiosity. Whatever the challenge, Brian would be the first to jump in with gusto, and would lead others into the fray with confidence and support.
Brian is a natural teacher and coach, building up his teammates and always sharing his expertise and time. Despite always having a full plate, he never complained (though he probably should have), and never said 'no' when asked if he could help contribute.
I've very much enjoyed working with Brian and I hope we get the chance to do so again.
Brian, wherever your next challenge takes you, I know you're going to crush it.
Ken Stephen
Director of Revenue Operations@Assembly
Brian was a huge asset to us and would be to any development team. He brought so much knowledge and technical solutions to all areas of our development. While being humble, very professional and approachable at all times.
Brian's an exceptional software developer and hope to cross paths with him again. Would highly recommend!
Aaron Krohn
Senior Front-End Engineer@Filtered
Brian is one of the best people I had the pleasure of working with. Incredibly hard working, dedicated, brilliant, always having a solution to any problem while still keeping to high standards and best practices.
During the 4 years I worked with Brian I have found him to be an incredible source of knowledge and reliance. He is always up to date with the newest things, looking for multiple solutions to a problem, leading, explaining and supporting his peers and colleagues.
I am convinced he would be a great asset for any company that would hire him and we still feel his absence here at our company.
Alexandru Trica
Head of Development@Filtered
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