David Hartfield
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
David is a revenue-focused technical consultant located in Michigan. He helps translate clients' ideas into "tech talk" so they can launch as quickly as possible. He has experience working with a variety of organizations—all the way from one-man startups to Fortune 500 companies. He loves seeing the potential of his projects to add profits, bump up scalability, or cut costs.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Atlassian Suite, Atlassian, Postman, Adobe Photoshop, Sonar, IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, Docker
The most amazing...
...tool for mobile app development is React Native—I love using this technology and saving time by re-using 85% of the code base between mobile apps.
Work Experience
Chief Technology Officer
EdLogics LLC
- Reduced cloud infrastructure spend by 50% by implementing cost-efficient scaling, cutting unnecessary spending, and migrating to serverless infrastructure.
- Established HIPAA compliance and SOC-2 infrastructure and software standards.
- Integrated single sign-on solutions with business partners using both SAML and OpenID-Connect SSO solutions.
- Reduced web app load times by 80% and increased site performance under heavy load. Orchestrated autoscaling groups to scale microservices up and down according to measured load.
- Managed grant funding applications for the community model and integrated partner company engineering talent into the software development lifecycle.
Contractor
Hilton
- Led the development of the hilton.com homepage that serves millions of users daily and the brand refresh and redesign. The rearchitected web app was built on React and Next.js, backed by an Apollo GraphQL API.
- Built shared atomic components shared by multiple React and React Native applications, following company-wide standardized design standards and best practices.
- Engineered a highly-customizable component management system allowing Content.
- Built editors to manage, preview, and deploy web content outside of SDLC by integrating with Bloomreach channel manager and Hippo CMS.
- Integrated public applications with third-party APIs, including TripAdvisor, Foursquare, and Google Maps.
- Ensured Level A success criteria for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
Software Architect
EdLogics
- Led an agile team of six remote US-based developers in building the core product of the company. The main project consisted of a scalable Java/Spring/Docker cloud-based web API and Angular front end that used Canvas/CreateJS to game development.
- Modernized the company’s monolithic single-tenant application to a high availability multi-tenant SaaS microservice architecture to allow the company to scale to millions of users with high performance.
- Migrated Java/Spring services to Docker containers on an AWS ECS infrastructure behind AWS API Gateway—all managed and configured through AWS CloudFormation.
- Optimized memory footprint and resource usage of Java/Spring applications by adopting Spring Batch for large batch processing of data, AWS ElastiCache for distributed caching, and AWS Aurora for distributed multi-tenant data persistence.
- Hired and trained new developers in establishing coding standards and best practices while providing mentorship.
- Architected HIPAA-compliant solutions to pass HIPAA audits.
Lead Mobile App Developer
Social News Desk
- Led the development of iOS and Android apps for rapid deployment to both the iTunes Store and Google Play Store.
- Developed apps in React Native to reuse around 85% of code between platforms and harness Java and Objective-C where necessary.
- Spearheaded mobile development while coordinating changes with the API development team and working with designers and testers to rapidly prepare apps for regular production deployments.
- Solved implementation problems by engineering new React Native libraries and collaborating with stakeholders and designers to architect the best user experience.
Experience
Social Media Management App
Skills
Languages
JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, Objective-C, Swift, PHP, GraphQL
Frameworks
React Native, Next.js, Redux, A-Frame, Angular, Spring
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, React, Node.js, Facebook API, Google Maps API
Tools
Git, Construct 2, AWS CloudFormation, Sketch, Maya, WebStorm, IntelliJ IDEA, Sonar, Adobe Photoshop, Postman, Atlassian, Atlassian Suite, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Platforms
AWS Lambda, Amazon Alexa, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Firebase
Paradigms
HIPAA Compliance, API Architecture, Management
Storage
MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Other
WebSockets, Serverless, Amazon API Gateway, Apollo, Chemistry, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Grant Proposals, Business Development
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry
Michigan State University - East Lansing, MI
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