Braden Franklin
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Braden has been working in the web industry for over a decade, and he loves what he does. He thrives in environments that involve constant learning, which makes web development an ideal profession for him. Every day, he learns something new to advance his skills, improve his efficiency, and stay current with new technologies. Braden has experience at companies ranging from small startups to global corporations, and he is able to excel both independently and as part of a team.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), React Redux, React, Node.js, Android Studio, GitHub, Slack, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Webflow, Front-end, TypeScript, Jest, Cypress, Front-end Development
The most amazing...
...project I've built is a web-based application for a cruise company to allow online check-in, reservations, and constant customer contact for promotions.
Work Experience
React Expert
Commonwealth Financial Network - Main
- Worked with various departments, creating project scope analyses and estimating work efforts to complete various departmental projects.
- Worked with various departments, completing tasks that had been put on hold for up to two years. Used a variety of tools, including the legacy code storage system TFS, .NET, and Visual Studio.
- Assisted with the planning for their migration to using React through the enterprise. Managed the headless CMS tool (Contentful and Netlify) for deploying the Gatsby projects.
- Worked on several mobile responsive React projects and built tons of pixel-perfect websites. I was the sole developer of their public website for a year and trained in additional resources to perform support functions.
Senior Full-stack Developer
The Center for Election Innovation & Research
- Created a voter registrar application that allowed various election campaigners to send out bulk email and SMS messages using Sendgrid and Twilio. End users were provided a number of options to customize the messages to the message recipients.
- Worked on data that had to be extracted from 50 states' resources and formats, placed in SQLite for processing, and then transferred to an AWS S3 cloud server for distribution.
- Integrated a tool for building a custom email template by dragging and dropping and exporting it to HTML format. The system sent out well over a million messages without sacrificing speed or accuracy.
Senior Software Engineer
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
- Created progressive websites using Angular, Vue.js, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Node.js, SQL, and MongoDB while maintaining a constant awareness of emerging technologies.
- Developed UI code based on agreed stories, proposed outline system test methods against assigned stories, and fixed bugs. I then ensured the developed UI code was unit-tested and automatically testable, where possible, as part of the build process.
- Designed stylish and functional designs based on UX research and used tools like Photoshop, Figma, and Zeplin.
- Provided immediate debugging, testing, and automation services to existing teams and applications.
Senior Web Developer
Freelance
- Worked with 30+ organizations from around the world, developing websites and mobile apps that include eCommerce, portal, booking, portfolio, and multilingual functionalities.
- Handled full-stack programming tasks for the development of the business-critical single page application and iOS/Android apps using React, Angular, Vue.js, React Native, and Node.js.
- Developed UI/UX strategies that include wireframes and mockups and for small and medium-sized enterprises.
- Profiled, troubleshot, and fixed bugs for the business-critical progressive web application that helped to tune system performance and decrease average response time.
- Reviewed the quality of code for the mission-critical online service, maintaining the code and design consistency across different team members.
Experience
Public Website for Commonwealth
https://www.commonwealth.com/Farming Exchange Site
Customer Relations Web Interface to Cruise Ship Services
https://www.royalcaribbean.com/We provided full online interaction with customers, including check-in, and allowed passenger-to-passenger communications within the ship. The majority of my contribution was on the front-end interfaces, but I also worked with the data engineers to provide specifications for the various data source APIs.
Home Repair Service App
Skills
Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL, HTML, HTML5, CSS, Sass, SCSS, PHP, Java, Python
Frameworks
Angular, AngularJS, React Native, Next.js, Bootstrap, Redux, Jest, Cypress, Electron, Tailwind CSS, Laravel, Django
Libraries/APIs
React, Vue, Node.js, jQuery, React Redux, Redux-Saga, Styled-jsx, Vue 2, React Testing Library, REST APIs, Vue Material, Google Maps API, D3.js, QuickBlox
Tools
Redux Thunk, Slack, GitHub, Asana, Figma, Xcode, Android Studio, Mocha, Auth0, Photoshop CS6
Paradigms
Mobile Development, Test-driven Development (TDD), Unit Testing, Server-side Programming, UI Design, UX Design
Platforms
Firebase, Contentful, iOS, Webflow, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Salesforce, Azure
Storage
MongoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, PostgreSQL
Other
Styled-components, Front-end, Full-stack, Mobile App Development, Front-end Development, API Integration, Back-end, APIs, Code Review, Gatsby, OpenText, Mobile Apps, UI Animation, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Server-side JavaScript, Full-stack Development, Responsive Design, OAuth, Headless Software, Messaging, Design Systems, Integration, Payment APIs, Payment Providers, SEO Tools
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
London University - London, UK
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