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Alexander R Lurvey, Software Developer in Milwaukee, WI, United States
Alexander R Lurvey

Software Developer in Milwaukee, WI, United States

Member since February 12, 2020
Alex is a full-stack developer with eight years of experience building web applications. He has spent more time with front-end technologies, specifically JavaScript libraries with functional, data-driven approaches. His primary experience has been with TypeScript, React, and .NET Core.
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Experience

Location

Milwaukee, WI, United States

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Terminal, VS Code, MacOS

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed was a progressive web application for a system that monitors IoT devices.

Employment

  • Front-end Consultant

    2019 - 2019
    Brookdale Senior Living
    • Rewrote a React application to use hooks and completed the final version 1 feature the month prior to launch.
    • Improved the UX by incorporating CSS and SVG animations and keyboard shortcuts to the application's main form.
    • Wrote a suite of end-to-end tests using the Cypress framework.
    Technologies: ECMAScript (ES6), Git, CSS3, CSS, HTML5, Cypress.io, React, JavaScript

  • Front-end Developer

    2019 - 2019
    Milwaukee Electric Tool
    • Created Azure functions to migrate data into CosmosDB from legacy systems.
    • Used Terraform to describe the project's cloud infrastructure and defined the CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
    • Added features and wrote tests for a time tracking application built with React and .NET Core.
    Technologies: ECMAScript (ES6), Git, NoSQL, Azure DevOps, CSS3, .NET Core, Redux, CSS, React, HTML5, Azure, Azure Cosmos DB, C#, JavaScript

  • Full-stack JavaScript Engineer

    2017 - 2018
    GMR Marketing
    • Led the adoption of recomposing and reselecting libraries within the front-end codebase.
    • Integrated our recruitment application with Twilio to allow recruiters to send text messages to candidates.
    • Created a Node.js API to parse and save resume documents of various file formats.
    Technologies: Webpack, TypeScript 3, ECMAScript (ES6), Git, Node.js, NoSQL, CSS3, Visual Studio, CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, Redux, React, MongoDB, .NET Core, C#, TypeScript

  • Application Developer

    2017 - 2018
    Generac Power Systems
    • Created a new SPA for the company's dealers to monitor the status of their wifi-connected generators.
    • Developed of progressive web app prototype of this new SPA to investigate replacing other native apps supported by the department.
    • Worked with the IT department to authorize users via their identity server using the OpenID Connect protocol.
    Technologies: SQL, Webpack, TypeScript 3, ECMAScript (ES6), Git, Babel, Azure DevOps, CSS3, Visual Studio, CSS, HTML5, Redux-Saga, Redux, React, C#, TypeScript

  • Software Developer

    2014 - 2017
    Advicent Solutions
    • Developed a financial account aggregation service to support an application similar to mint.com.
    • Developed various front ends with AngularJS for data integration workflows between external CMRs and the company's systems.
    • Wrote front and back-end unit tests using Jasmine and NUnit (C#).
    Technologies: CSS3, Visual Studio, CSS, HTML5, SQL, AngularJS, JavaScript, C#

Experience

  • Crypto Search
    https://github.com/alexlurvey/crypto-search

    An application to search amongst the top valued cryptocurrencies. Initially a project used to showcase React development, I later reimplemented it two different ways using various libraries from the @thi.ng/umbrella (https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella) ecosystem to investigate more data-driven and reactive programming libraries.

  • Music Search
    https://github.com/alexlurvey/music-search

    A sample app to demonstrate full-stack React, Node.js, and TypeScript skills. Queries last.fm's API to search for artists. Developed over a weekend for a job interview. Deployed to the Vercel platform (https://music-search.now.sh/).

Skills

  • Languages

    TypeScript, TypeScript 2, JavaScript, TypeScript 3, HTML5, ECMAScript (ES6), CSS, HTML, C#, CSS3, SQL

  • Frameworks

    Redux, Jest, .NET Core, Cypress.io, AngularJS

  • Libraries/APIs

    React, Reselect, CSSinJS, Redux-Saga, Node.js

  • Tools

    Babel, Git, Visual Studio, VS Code, Terminal, Terraform, Webpack, Rollup

  • Other

    CSS Grid, Front-end, CSS3 Animation, Computer Engineering

  • Paradigms

    Reactive Programming, Functional Programming, Azure DevOps

  • Storage

    Azure Cosmos DB, MongoDB, NoSQL

  • Platforms

    MacOS, Azure

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
    2010 - 2014
    Milwaukee School of Engineering - Milwaukee, WI

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