Brian Shaffer, Developer in Denver, CO, United States
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Brian Shaffer

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Bio

Brian is a full-stack developer with 20 years of experience developing websites, native apps, browser extensions, and integrations into dozens of APIs. His early career focused on PHP and MySQL applications, but he has transitioned more toward JavaScript and PostgreSQL over the years. While Brian specializes in full stack, he has a sweet spot for browser automation and playing live with the Document Object Model (DOM).

Portfolio

Privacy Pilot
JavaScript, PostgreSQL, OpenAI GPT-3 API, Node.js, React, Python, Web Scraping
Logic Animal
JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, React, React Native, Node.js, Git...

Experience

  • CSS - 20 years
  • JavaScript - 18 years
  • Chrome Extensions - 11 years
  • Git - 11 years
  • Node.js - 10 years
  • React - 6 years
  • PostgreSQL - 3 years
  • OpenAI GPT-4 API - 2 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

JavaScript, PostgreSQL, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, React, React Native, Git, OpenAI GPT-4 API

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed is a high-frequency trading bot, which I built as a Chrome extension before the platform even had an API.

Work Experience

Full-stack Engineer

2022 - PRESENT
Privacy Pilot
  • Built an AI-powered privacy policy analysis tool using OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo engine.
  • Designed and coded a full React front-end website deployed on Amazon S3.
  • Created lead generation funnels and integrations into a B2B sales process.
Technologies: JavaScript, PostgreSQL, OpenAI GPT-3 API, Node.js, React, Python, Web Scraping

Full-stack Engineer

2015 - 2022
Logic Animal
  • Created React applications with MySQL or PostgreSQL back ends.
  • Developed iOS and Android applications via React Native.
  • Built Chrome extensions and web scrapers with cURL, Puppeteer, and Selenium.
  • Handled cloud deployments on AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, and GCP via GitHub Actions using Docker containers.
Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, React, React Native, Node.js, Git, WordPress, Stripe, Twilio, OpenAI GPT-4 API

Experience

SuperConnector AI

https://superconnector.network/
An AI chatbot powered by GPT-4 Turbo, which interviews users and finds the top people they should meet when going to a conference or event. The front end is React, and the back end API runs via Node.js, which is deployed through GitHub Actions with Docker containers.

Privacy Pilot

https://privacypilot.org/
A legal document auditing tool powered by GPT-4 Turbo, which specializes in scoring privacy policies and terms of service documents for apps and websites. I built the GPT auditing engine and the entire front-end React website.

Education

2007 - 2011

Bachelor's Degree in Advertising and Marketing

Clarkson University - Potsdam, NY, USA

2010 - 2010

Exchange Program in International Business

National University of Singapore - Singapore

Skills

Libraries/APIs

React, Node.js, Stripe

Tools

Git

Languages

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, TypeScript, C++, Python

Platforms

WordPress, Twilio, Docker

Storage

PostgreSQL, MySQL

Frameworks

React Native

Paradigms

Management

Other

Chrome Extensions, Web Scraping, OpenAI GPT-4 API, OpenAI GPT-3 API, Web Marketing, Finance, Taxation, International Trade

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