Ari Leo Frankel
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Austin, TX, United States
Toptal member since September 2, 2020
As a senior full-stack developer at Whole Foods Market, Ari was on a small team responsible for a greenfield rewrite of the most widely used internal tool in the company, slashing load times by an order of magnitude and improving user satisfaction scores by 300%. In Ari, you'll find a perpetually curious lifelong learner, eager to jump into new problems; a kind and intentional communicator, comfortable leading and being led; and an enthusiastic collaborator across the entire product ecosystem.
Portfolio
Experience
- Web Architecture - 4 years
- Docker - 4 years
- React - 4 years
- PostgreSQL - 4 years
- Node.js - 4 years
- JavaScript - 4 years
- Vue - 2 years
- GraphQL - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Slack, Linux, Git
The most amazing...
...contribution I've made while at Whole Foods Market was to introduce code reviews and test coverage to my team, including training and establishing a culture.
Work Experience
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
WPEngine
- Created Cloudwatch dashboard generation tool widely used for on-the-fly debugging of complex customer infrastructure.
- Refactored the technical interview process for my team to accommodate different cultural expectations of candidates in the Polish job market.
- Contribute to quarterly AWS WAF review of our AWS infrastructure and ensuing improvements prioritization and execution.
Senior Full-stack Web Developer | Team Lead
CSC Generation
- Introduced test coverage to the Next.js front end that previously had none.
- Taught team members about JavaScript testing principles and technologies.
- Contributed to the maintenance and extension of the AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild template.
Senior Software Engineer
Whole Foods Market
- Introduced a formal code review process and static analysis and testing practices to the team culture, including educating team members about testing best practices.
- Contributed to maintaining a monolithic .NET(C#) monolithic back end.
- Implemented performant front-end features, according to specifications, in Vue.js and vanilla JavaScript.
Full-stack Developer
Berkshire Hathaway Home Services of America
- Co-authored a customer notification system that processed millions of rows of MLS data every day using Node.js microservices, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, and Mailjet.
- Implemented marketing email automation that saved around 60 combined weekly marketing staff hours. Used Node.js, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, and Salesforce to deliver personalized product rollup emails to approximately 70,000 customers multiple times weekly.
- Executed a CI/CD workflow in CircleCI, including a novel strategy for deploying a monorepo in Heroku.
Teacher
Hack Reactor
- Built a conference room management application using Angular 2 and the Google Calendar API.
- Mentored 20 student teams through the full application ideation, development cycle, and taught full-stack JavaScript development.
- Contributed to original lectures on Redux, Git workflow, and documentation.
Experience
Online Real Estate Auction Platform
https://www.conciergeauctions.com/I primarily focused on developing an automated marketing email workflow, including weekly market summaries as well as a personalized, weekly product rollup email for ~70,000 customers. On the back end, this included a queue-based architecture, Node.js microservices, relational databases. On the front end, this involved heavy lifting in cross-browser and email-client compatibility with Mailchimp's email templating offerings.
Senior Software Engineer, ZGallerie
https://www.zgallerie.com/• Reviewed code and participated in the collaborative system and application design process
• Monitored application health using Cloudwatch and Sentry
Node.js
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Mathematics
Emory University - Atlanta, GA, United States
Bachelor's Degree in German Studies
Emory University - Atlanta, GA, United States
Certifications
AWS Certified Developer Associate
Amazon Web Services
Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, React, Vue
Tools
RabbitMQ, CircleCI, Sentry, AWS Deployment, Git, Slack
Languages
JavaScript, SQL, Python, GraphQL
Paradigms
Web Architecture, Unit Testing
Frameworks
Redux, .NET Core, Angular, Next.js, Jest, AWS HA
Platforms
Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, Linux
Storage
PostgreSQL, NoSQL
Other
Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Cloud Infrastructure
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