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Aaron Martin, Software Developer in West Jordan, UT, United States
Aaron Martin

Software Developer in West Jordan, UT, United States

Member since August 23, 2021
Wouldn't it be great to work with someone who knows every layer of application development? Aaron is that someone. He's been creating applications for about 20 years and involved with every aspect of the development process. Previous roles have included architect, senior web developer, and systems engineer. Aaron has improved scalability and performance on projects, fixed bugs, and delivered improvements that resulted in services running nearly 200 times faster.
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Portfolio

  • Intermountain Healthcare
    React, Node.js, Git, Express.js
  • Oversplode Inc
    Node.js, React, Next.js, Gatsby, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, NGINX, Docker, Git...
  • Sharpr
    JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Node.js, React, AngularJS, AWS, Git...

Experience

Location

West Jordan, UT, United States

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, Docker, React, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Node.js, PHP, NGINX, AWS, MySQL

The most amazing...

...project that I've developed from architecture to release is Cognapt. It's a web application for tracking, sharing, and analyzing everyday events in one's life.

Employment

  • Senior Developer

    2021 - PRESENT
    Intermountain Healthcare
    • Completed most of the onboarding configurations and setup on my own. This allowed the rest of the team to continue working without spending much time helping me come up to speed.
    • Identified and repaired a number of security-vulnerability issues.
    • Assisted in onboarding new members of the team and improved the onboarding documentation.
    Technologies: React, Node.js, Git, Express.js

  • All Roles

    2020 - PRESENT
    Oversplode Inc
    • Designed and implemented a secure, highly-available, and crash-resistant server infrastructure using Docker Swarm, Cloudflare, EC2, and S3.
    • Architected and built the entire application from scratch using Next.js, Node.js, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and Sass.
    • Protected against regression and buggy releases with automated testing and CI tools such as Jest, Backstop, and CircleCI.
    Technologies: Node.js, React, Next.js, Gatsby, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, NGINX, Docker, Git, AWS, Cloudflare, Sass

  • Senior Developer

    2018 - PRESENT
    Sharpr
    • Improved the local development environment with Docker and Docker-Compose. This system made onboarding new engineers easier, helped keep everyone's local database up-to-date, and unified the development experience for the team.
    • Improved scalability, reliability, and performance in 30+ different areas.
    • Integrated with multiple external systems such as Box, Microsoft Teams, IFTTT, and Diffbot.
    Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Node.js, React, AngularJS, AWS, Git, Docker, Vagrant, NGINX, Apache, Docker Compose

  • Architect, Senior Web Developer, Systems Engineer III

    2015 - 2018
    TCS Technologies
    • Enhanced and supported eight different web applications and microservices.
    • Fixed bugs and made improvements in 50+ different areas. Some improvements resulted in services running almost 200 times faster than before.
    • Collaborated directly with DevOps to improve reliability and performance and to troubleshoot and fix pre-existing issues.
    Technologies: JavaScript, AngularJS, MySQL, MongoDB, Linux, NGINX

  • Software Engineer

    2011 - 2015
    Helix Education
    • Improved the execution time of one critical piece of functionality by 70% with only ten or 20 additional KBs of memory.
    • Used Jenkins, Selenium, PHPUnit, and Ant to automate repetitive tasks related to deployment and testing.
    • Recognized as Employee of the Quarter for dedication to duty and helping to bring new personnel up-to-speed during a time of heavy attrition.
    Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, PHPUnit

  • Senior Developer, Web Developer, Programmer

    1999 - 2011
    Various Companies
    • Hundreds of bug fixes, performance improvements, and optimizations.
    • Recommended, designed, and implemented a Kimball-style data warehouse. The warehouse addressed performance and accuracy concerns that had arisen from the pre-existing data structure without compromising data integrity.
    • Wrote a drill-down graphing and reporting library in JavaScript long before ES6 or D3.js came onto the scene. It made reports come to life at a time when such a thing was very rare.
    Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Redis, NGINX, Apache, Git

Experience

  • Cognapt
    http://cognapt.com

    A web application for tracking, sharing, and analyzing everyday events in one's life. I built it from scratch and am the sole maintainer. It is currently being built but has enough functionality to give the viewer a taste of what is yet to come.

Skills

  • Languages

    PHP, Sass, JavaScript

  • Tools

    Git, NGINX, CircleCI, Jenkins, Bamboo, Docker Swarm, Vagrant, Apache, Docker Compose

  • Platforms

    Linux, Docker, MacOS, Oracle

  • Storage

    MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis

  • Frameworks

    Next.js, AngularJS, Jest, Express.js, PHPUnit

  • Libraries/APIs

    React, Node.js

  • Paradigms

    Agile, Kanban

  • Other

    AWS, Cloudflare, Gatsby

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