Brenton Cozby, Developer in St. Augustine, FL, United States
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Brenton Cozby

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Software Developer

Location
St. Augustine, FL, United States
Toptal Member Since
May 4, 2018

Brenton has the skills—both communication- and development-wise—to successfully lead the development of the front-end of a financial services application at First Data while also collaborating with a QA team, a client-testing team, business analysts, Agile methodologies, and Scrum. He’s also built several different full-stack apps using React, PostgreSQL, Node.js, and Express.js and is known for writing powerful Webpack configurations.

Portfolio

Ed-Com (Toptal)
Git, Ngrok, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, React
First Data
Bitbucket, Git, Scrum, Agile, ECMAScript (ES6), JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Grunt...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Node.js, MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Git

The most amazing...

...thing I’ve made was a “lumber calculator" that returns optimized lumber orders for a given set of requirements and factors (local market price & availability).

Work Experience

Software Engineer

2018 - PRESENT
Ed-Com (Toptal)
  • Developed the UI for the main web application for email services; based on mockup images.
Technologies: Git, Ngrok, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, React

Applications Developer

2017 - PRESENT
First Data
  • Led the development of the front-end of a financial services application for corporate clients.
  • Built new features, admin capabilities, and fixed bugs using AngularJS with ES6, Grunt, Git, and Bitbucket with JIRA.
  • Reviewed pull requests for the team and gave feedback for improvements.
  • Gave guidance to new/struggling developers on team.
  • Collaborated with the quality assurance team and business analysts to meet client requirements using Agile and Scrum methodologies.
Technologies: Bitbucket, Git, Scrum, Agile, ECMAScript (ES6), JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Grunt, AngularJS

TransformFiles

The project includes a function called transformFiles that facilitates file movement, copying, and editing that I utilized in various projects for tasks such as copying static files to the "dist" folder, minifying front-end code (CSS, JavaScript, HTML), adding cache-busting hashes to filenames, compiling EJS templates with injected variables, and appending informative banner to bundled files.

The transformFiles function expects three parameters:
• An absolute path to the directory containing the files you intend to transform.
• An object with options, including the destination path and a Boolean value indicating whether the files should be flattened.
• A transformer callback function.
The transformer callback function receives an object with details about the current file being processed, including the filename, the source path, and the destination path.

I designed the transformFiles function and accompanying build-tool scripts as a complementary tool to frameworks like Webpack. Its flexibility and versatility make it an excellent addition to the development workflow

MyoCortex.com

https://myocortex.com
This is a website for Myocortex LLC, an elite strength and conditioning platform that offers one-on-one, tandem, and semi-private training.

I built this website without any front-end frameworks (like Bootstrap or React) or build tools (like Webpack). I made my own build tools using Node.js and created my own stylesheets and JavaScript utilities.

Techlaunch.io

TechLaunch is a school that offers training in web development, digital marketing, and network administration. I created their website using PHP, Sass, Webpack, and some customized build tools.

Languages

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ECMAScript (ES6), Sass, SQL

Frameworks

Jasmine, AngularJS, Jest, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Bootstrap, React Native, Express.js

Other

Front-end Development, Programming

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, React, Node.js

Tools

Webpack, GitHub, Git, Bitbucket, Grunt, Ngrok, Mongoose

Paradigms

Unit Testing, Agile, Scrum, Agile Software Development

Platforms

MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Storage

PostgreSQL, MongoDB

2010 - 2014

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology

University of Miami - Miami, FL, USA

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