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High impact senior software engineer with a passion to make the world a better place!
https://github.com/localjo/resume
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High impact senior software engineer with a passion to make the world a better place!
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/localjo/resume
- Owner: localjo
- Created: 2018-01-26T22:57:57.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-03-02T18:54:58.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-10T01:19:28.790Z (2 months ago)
- Topics: accessibility, bash, css, empathy, git, html, javascript, nodejs, php, react, redux, sales, seo, spanish, ui, unix, ux, webpack, wordpress, writing
- Language: CSS
- Homepage: http://iamlocaljo.com
- Size: 250 KB
- Stars: 4
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Jo Sprague
[](empathy.md)
[](perspective.md)
[](passion.md)
[](learning.md)
[](communication.md)
[](productivity.md)
> High impact senior software engineer with a passion to make the world a better place!
## Core Skills
JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, Node.js, GraphQL, Webpack, gulp, git, Docker, Bash, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, UX/UI, Accessibility, Technical Writing, Public Speaking, English (Native), Spanish (Fluent), Hungarian (Conversational)
## Relevant Experience
### Full Stack Software Engineering Consultant
_[Consultant](https://iamlocaljo.com/) (July 2014 to Present)_
- I often work on programming projects I'm passionate about and that have a positive impact on the world.
- Rebuilt a humanitarian mapping app for the [Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team](https://www.hotosm.org/).
- Contributed to several [open source projects](https://github.com/localjo) including NASA Worldview and Webpack.
- Wrote [custom plugins for WordPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/quotable/) and [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/).
### Senior Software Engineer (Remote)
_[Mokriya](https://mokriya.com/) (July 2018 to July 2019)_
- Improved front end performance by fixing memory leaks, fixing bugs, and significantly reducing app bundle size.
- Streamlined team's engineering process by updating quality control tools and reducing technical debt.
- Enabled team to iterate faster by increasing unit test coverage and improving continuous integration process.
- Helped our team ship new client-facing features ahead of schedule.
### Full Stack Engineer
_[NASA [Goddard Space Flight Center, GIBS/Worldview, ASRC Contract]](https://www.nasa.gov/goddard) (July 2017 to February 2018)_
- Developer for [NASA Worldview](https://github.com/nasa-gibs/worldview)—a web app for browsing satellite imagery built with JavaScript and Python.
- Saved our team thousands of dollars in engineers' time every week by replacing a manual QA process that took weeks with automated browser tests that ran in minutes, enabling us to iterate and ship new features quickly.
- Reduced deployment time from over an hour to <5 minutes, allowing us to rapidly release new features and bug fixes.
- Raised the bar for engineering practices and quality standards by implementing coding standards and code reviews.
- Created a better product for our users by shipping new features, optimizing performance, reducing technical debt, and migrating an aging code base to ES6.
### Full Stack Engineer (Remote)
_[Sparkart Group, Inc [Contractor]](http://www.sparkart.com/) (June 2014 to June 2017)_
- Increased the productivity of Front End Developers on the team by creating build scripts, command line interfaces, chat bots and other tools to support their work.
- Used React/d3 to build an app for streaming live [experiment data from ISS](http://www.spacetango.com/), and React/AWS Lambda to build a web crawler for lawyers to track IP infringements.
- Saved the company thousands of dollars a month by migrating an app platform used for clients like [Bon Jovi](http://bonjovi.com/), [Janet Jackson](https://www.janetjackson.com/), [Jason Aldean](https://www.jasonaldean.com/), [Carrie Underwood](https://www.carrieunderwood.fm/), [The Immunity Project](http://www.immunityproject.org/), and [Space Tango](http://www.spacetango.com), [UFC](https://www.ufcfightclub.com/) from a Ruby monolith to Node.js micro-services.
### Director of Media and Front End Engineer (Volunteer)
_[Doulos Discovery School](http://www.jarabacoard.com/es/servicios/item/doulos-discovery-school) (July 2012 to June 2014)_
- Enabled staff, students and parents in multiple countries to communicate more effectively by designing and developing a bilingual responsive website with a CMS, administrating Linode servers, and managing Google Apps.
- Helped the organization raise hundreds of thousands of dollars by creating a bilingual media strategy to bring in donations using web, photo, video and print media.
- Designed curriculum for and taught a high school digital communication class and programming club.
### Front End Engineer
_[OuterBox](https://www.outerboxdesign.com/) (August 2011 to July 2012)_
_[NAS Recruitment Communications](http://www.nasrecruitment.com/) (2011)_
_[Delta Media Group](https://www.deltamediagroup.com/) (2010 to 2011)_
## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree: Mass Media Communication, TV/Radio
_[The University of Akron](http://www.uakron.edu/)_
Minor with studies in Computer Science, International Business, Graphic Design and Animation. Webmaster for [Associated Student Government](http://uakronstudentlife.orgsync.com/org/usg/), [the Buchtelite](https://buchtelite.com/), [88.1 WZIP](http://www.wzip.fm/), and [ZTV](https://ztv.uakron.edu/).
## Contact
• +1-330-962-3520 • • `npx localjo`