James – Typescript, AI-assisted coding, Vue.js

Small personal and professional projects

• Rebuilt a band website to use Vue/Quasar on the frontend with a headless WordPress backend
• Created a tool to generate JSON prompts from a form for AI chatbots, using different rules for different models
• Developed a prototype for a business idea where artist tour/event managers can track and manage day-to-day tour activities (day sheets, lodging, travel, load-ins and load-outs, etc)

A behavioral health platform where patients take diagnostic and progress assessments, and clinicians assign, review, and analyze them.

• Ensured the UI was working at peak efficiency and usability.
• Built features and enhancements for the front-end clinician-facing application and patient-facing questionnaires.
• Improved and modernized data visualization and charting initiatives by presenting patient analytics data in Highcharts.
• Partnered on the development of an internal design system to standardize UI elements into consistent reusable components.
• Migrated the front-end application from Vue 2 to Vue 3 and migrated build tooling from Webpack to Vite.

A company creating medical devices, specifically a stationary bicycle, for patients recovering from surgery. The device tracks progress in real time, sends data to the clinician, and provides a screen for the patient to see his own progress or chat with the clinician as the work is being done.

• Led Laravel/Lumen-based microservices for a user-facing medical device application.
• Optimized database queries for efficiency, choosing between Eloquent ORM and vanilla SQL as appropriate.
• Built new features to specification in Laravel and React.
• Created bespoke tools in Python to consume API endpoints for communication between device hardware and software.

A dashboard SPA that allowed customers to track and manage the health of their jet engines using onboard telemetry—data dense, rich data visualization and analytics.

• Engineered features and enhancements for a single-page application for engine health management built in Typescript, Vue, and SCSS.
• Unit tested front-end components using Jest to support continuous delivery and deployment.
• Applied best practices to improve scaling and performance when pulling large amounts of data from API endpoints.
• Assisted with back-end development of API endpoints using Golang and Python.
• Troubleshot bugs, defects, and performance issues.
• Mentored other developers.
• Participated actively in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and stakeholder demos.

Custom, pixel-perfect websites for clients in Laravel, WordPress, Drupal, etc. Responsive, mobile-first, custom themes and templates.

• Planned and developed a Laravel application to securely digitize data gathering and monitoring in a pharmaceutical lab.
• Built responsive, mobile-friendly client websites to exact design specifications using Bootstrap, LESS/SASS, and Laravel or CMS platforms as appropriate.
• Built custom themes and templates for WordPress and Drupal sites.
• Analyzed and reverse-engineered existing code to determine feasibility for reuse or repurposing.