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Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Gaithersburg, MD, United States
Toptal member since May 13, 2020
Bio
Ian Harvey wants to make sure your users don't just tolerate using your products but genuinely enjoy the experience and look forward to coming back. With over 14 years of extensive professional experience as a front-end engineer—analyzing, designing, developing, and implementing online software systems—Ian is more than capable of building or enhancing memorable positive experiences for you and your users.
Portfolio
RAES Inc
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), jQuery...
Silly Robot LLC
Firebase, Angular, SEO Tools, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Ultimate Knowledge
TypeScript, Angular, JavaScript, CSS, D3.js, Redis, React, UI Design...
Experience
- JavaScript - 16 years
- CSS - 16 years
- HTML - 16 years
- Angular - 7 years
- TypeScript - 7 years
- MongoDB - 7 years
- Node.js - 7 years
- Express.js - 7 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, MongoDB, Express.js, Node.js, Angular, CSS, .NET, Vue, .NET Core
The most amazing...
...thing I've single-handedly created is a fully client-side desktop operating system for creating realistic job simulations for employment screening.
Work Experience
Senior Front-end Developer
2024 - PRESENT
RAES Inc
- Migrated core services to serverless architecture using AWS Lambda and Node.js, improving API response times by 40% and reducing infrastructure costs by 30% through optimized Serverless Framework configurations.
- Led UI overhaul by implementing a custom-built React/Tailwind component library.
- Modernized a legacy PHP application by integrating Web Components for new UI features, reducing feature development time by 50% while maintaining 100% backward compatibility with existing client workflows.
Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), jQuery, GitHub, LAMP, Node.js, AWS Lambda, Serverless, Serverless Framework, Serverless Architecture, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Full-stack Developer
2024 - 2025
Silly Robot LLC
- Implemented reCAPTCHA integration and email system enhancements that reduced spam submissions by 85% through Angular service improvements and Firebase Cloud Functions implementation.
- Optimized performance by reducing image payload sizes by 40% through responsive image implementation and implemented school-specific visit tracking in Firebase Analytics that monitored traffic across hundreds of educational institutions.
- Delivered SEO improvements and content prioritization that increased search engine visibility by 30% through favicon optimization and meta tag enhancement.
Technologies: Firebase, Angular, SEO Tools, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Front-end Developer
2024 - 2024
Ultimate Knowledge
- Developed a cyber-security training course learning management system (LMS) consisting of five front-end microapps and a custom shared UI component library.
- Employed the Agile methodology within Jira to deliver the minimum viable product (MVP) in three months.
- Served as the lead front-end engineer and oversaw the entire front-end development lifecycle to ensure project completion within our timeline.
Technologies: TypeScript, Angular, JavaScript, CSS, D3.js, Redis, React, UI Design, Web Design, Websites, React Native, Vanilla JS, Content Management Systems (CMS), Back-end, Performance, Headless CMS, ECMAScript (ES6), Large-scale Projects, HTTP, REST, Git, JSON, Microservices, NestJS, Application State Management, AWS Lambda, Technical Architecture
Front-end Developer (via Toptal)
2023 - 2024
Inspira Futures
- Optimized Webflow website's page speed metrics using caching and custom web workers in Cloudflare. Increased one site's PageSpeed scores from 55 (mobile) and 92 (desktop) to 84 (mobile) and 99 (desktop) using only free-tier services and custom code.
- Designed and developed web components using Vue for custom non-Webflow search and calculator functionalities. Deployed web components to a CDN to be embedded as native code within Webflow pages without using iframes.
- Streamlined the development process of custom non-Webflow code and organized code into new repositories and pipelines.
Technologies: Front-end, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, User Interface (UI), Webflow, SEO Tools, APIs, API Integration, Integration, Back-end, Vue, Web Components, PageSpeed, Lighthouse, Cloudflare, Vue 3, Google Calendar, Photoshop 2018, UI Design, Web Design, Websites, Vanilla JS, Content Management Systems (CMS), Performance, Headless CMS, ECMAScript (ES6), Large-scale Projects, HTTP, REST, Git, JSON, Finance APIs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), eCommerce, Microservices, Application State Management, Pinia, AWS Lambda, Technical Architecture, Large Language Models (LLMs), Open-source LLMs
Lead Software Engineer (via Toptal)
2021 - 2024
Spa Space
- Designed and developed UI components and services to facilitate dashboards, appointment scheduling and booking, payment, administration, and subscriptions.
- Designed and developed .NET microservices, endpoints, repositories, and webhooks to facilitate subscription payment processing, appointment scheduling, booking, and email notifications.
- Built a customizable Angular directive for resizing DOM elements using dynamic components for adding drag handles, the content projection for custom drag handle UI elements, and RxJS observables for capturing and tracking mouse events.
Technologies: Vue, Vue CLI, Angular, Angular CLI, .NET, .NET 5, SQL, Angular Material, Vuetify, RxJS, Web Worker, HTML5 Web Workers, Webhooks, Component Libraries, Microservices, Ajax, Responsive Web Design (RWD), UI Animation, 2D, HTML Templates, Front-end, Full-stack, APIs, Calculators, Web Forms, Web Application Forms, Excel 365, WebSockets, Requirements Analysis, Architecture, Leadership, Databases, CI/CD Pipelines, XML, Data Visualization, API Integration, Azure, REST APIs, Chromium, MacOS, Figma, Storybook, Forms, Canvas, Web Applications, Diagrams, Chrome Developer Tools, Analytics, System Requirements, Data Processing, System Architecture, CRM APIs, MongoDB, Express.js, Algorithms, Test-driven Development (TDD), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), OAuth, SignalR, Vue 3, Calendars, Scheduling, Google Calendar, GIS, Docker, Kubernetes, .NET Core, Selenium, Sass, Redis, Stripe, Payment APIs, Branding, Photoshop 2018, UI Design, Web Design, Websites, React Native, Vanilla JS, Content Management Systems (CMS), Back-end, Performance, Headless CMS, ECMAScript (ES6), GraphQL, Large-scale Projects, HTTP, REST, Git, JSON, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Finance APIs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), eCommerce, Application State Management, Pinia, AWS Lambda, Technical Architecture
Owner
2012 - 2024
Halfshell Media
- Founded and operated a digital media company specializing in graphic and web design, video and audio production, and photography.
- Designed and built a talent-sourcing web application for aggregating and organizing talent searches across multiple sources, such as LinkedIn, Google, and Indeed.
- Oversaw the camera and data wrangling crew for the 2016 African American Festival in Baltimore, MD, a large festival with tens of thousands of patrons.
Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, WordPress, MySQL, PHP, MongoDB, Express.js, Node.js, Angular, Web UI, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Web App UI, Responsive UI, CSS, jQuery, Agile, Agile UX, Agile Workflow, CSS3 Animation, Less, UI Components, Windows, Pixel Perfect, User Interface Engineering (UIE), Agile Sprints, Responsive Design, Responsive UX Design, Responsive Web Apps, HTML, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Web UI Design, Responsive, Responsive Layout, SCSS, Adobe Experience Design (XD), PSD Slicing, PSD to HTML, Adobe, WordPress API, Databases, NoSQL, GitHub, Ajax, Responsive Web Design (RWD), UI Animation, 2D, 3D, HTML Templates, Front-end, Full-stack, APIs, Google Maps API, Calculators, Web Forms, Web Application Forms, WordPress Plugins, Excel 365, Nuxt.js, WebSockets, Bitbucket, Software Design, Desktop App Development, Requirements Analysis, Desktop, Desktop Web Design, Architecture, Leadership, Electron, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD Pipelines, Vue, React, Redux, Python, Web Scraping, Game Development, XML, Data Visualization, API Integration, REST APIs, Chromium, Figma, Next.js, Storybook, Tailwind CSS, Forms, Canvas, Web Applications, Diagrams, Chart.js, Chrome Developer Tools, Elasticsearch, SaaS, Analytics, System Requirements, Data Processing, System Architecture, CRM APIs, Algorithms, Test-driven Development (TDD), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Firebase, Ionic, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Artificial Intelligence (AI), OAuth, Vue 3, Google Calendar, Laravel, Chrome Extensions, OpenAI API, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL, .NET Core, Selenium, Sass, Redis, LAMP, Stripe, Payment APIs, Branding, Photoshop 2018, UI Design, Web Design, Websites, React Native, Vanilla JS, Content Management Systems (CMS), Back-end, Performance, Headless CMS, ECMAScript (ES6), HTTP, REST, Git, JSON, Finance APIs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), eCommerce, Application State Management, Pinia, Cloudflare, Technical Architecture, Large Language Models (LLMs), Open-source LLMs
MEAN Developer (via Toptal)
2023 - 2023
Tiller Digital Inc.
- Provisioned a new Amazon EC2 instance with the correct MongoDB version to enable the client's legacy app to continue running without relying on MongoDB Atlas, which had recently phased out support for their app's Mongo version.
- Configured 30 days of automated rolling DB backups to Amazon S3.
- Created a new MongoDB configuration that fulfilled the client's application needs and reduced their MongoDB costs by around 80% in the process.
Technologies: MEAN Stack, Node.js, MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Calendar, Sass, Web Design, Websites, Vanilla JS, Back-end, Performance, ECMAScript (ES6), HTTP, REST, Git, JSON, Microservices, Application State Management, AWS Lambda, Technical Architecture
Creative UI Animations and Motions Developer (via Toptal)
2022 - 2022
WE ARE SKY, INC
- Developed an immersive web experience for a marketing agency to showcase their work and services, utilizing Three.js and Blender to create bespoke 3D scenes for multiple pages.
- Created/modified 3D models of buildings and bridges in Blender and prepared them for export to WebGL. Implemented a procedural cloud rendering algorithm to simulate flying over infinitely appearing clouds.
- Optimized the website's efficiency by making use of the latest web technologies. Developed the 2D content of the website using Vue, Nuxt, and Contentful to take advantage of CMS and server-side rendering. Deployed the site to Edge using Vercel.
Technologies: CSS, JavaScript, UI Animation, 2D, 3D, Three.js, WebGL, Vue, Nuxt.js, Vercel, Tailwind CSS, Headless UI, TypeScript, Blender, Vue 3, Google Calendar, Branding, Photoshop 2018, UI Design, Web Design, Websites, Vanilla JS, Content Management Systems (CMS), Back-end, Performance, Headless CMS, ECMAScript (ES6), HTTP, REST, Git, JSON, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Application State Management, Pinia, Technical Architecture
Lead User Experience Developer
2015 - 2021
Cobb Systems Group
- Designed and built the UI for our flagship product and oversaw the entire front-end team for the UI development.
- Developed a fully client-side desktop operating system for creating realistic job simulations for employment screening.
- Created an in-browser coding development environment, both front-end, and back-end.
- Created the pre-qualification questionnaire building tool used for over 90% of the county government jobs in Montgomery County, MD.
- Designed and developed hundreds of other job simulations and qualification questionnaires.
Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, WordPress, MySQL, PHP, MongoDB, Express.js, Node.js, Angular, Web UI, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Web App UI, Responsive UI, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Agile, Agile UX, Agile Workflow, CSS3 Animation, AngularJS, Less, UI Components, C#, Windows, Ubuntu Linux, Pixel Perfect, User Interface Engineering (UIE), Agile Sprints, Responsive Design, Responsive UX Design, Responsive Web Apps, HTML, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Web UI Design, Responsive, Responsive Layout, SCSS, Parallax, Adobe Experience Design (XD), NgRx, PSD Slicing, PSD to HTML, Adobe, WordPress API, MEAN Stack, Databases, NoSQL, Java, Ajax, Responsive Web Design (RWD), UI Animation, 2D, 3D, HTML Templates, Front-end, Full-stack, APIs, Google Maps API, Calculators, Web Forms, Web Application Forms, WordPress Plugins, Excel 365, WebSockets, Bitbucket, Software Design, Desktop App Development, Requirements Analysis, Desktop, Desktop Web Design, Architecture, Leadership, Electron, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD Pipelines, Redux, Game Development, XML, Data Visualization, API Integration, REST APIs, Chromium, Figma, Forms, Canvas, Web Applications, Diagrams, D3.js, Chart.js, Chrome Developer Tools, Elasticsearch, SaaS, Analytics, System Requirements, Data Processing, System Architecture, CRM APIs, Algorithms, Test-driven Development (TDD), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), PostgreSQL, OAuth, Telerik Kendo UI, Google Calendar, Docker, SQL, .NET Core, Selenium, Sass, LAMP, Stripe, Payment APIs, Branding, Photoshop 2018, UI Design, Web Design, Websites, Vanilla JS, Vuetify, Content Management Systems (CMS), Back-end, Performance, Headless CMS, ECMAScript (ES6), Large-scale Projects, HTTP, REST, Git, Bootstrap 4, JSON, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Finance APIs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), eCommerce, Microservices, Application State Management, AWS Lambda, Technical Architecture
Analyst
2010 - 2012
Cobb Systems Group
- Developed job simulations to be used in employment screening for high-level technology and finance positions.
- Designed, developed, and maintained the company's corporate website.
- Built and maintained, physically, on-site web servers.
Technologies: jQuery, JavaScript, Bootstrap, CSS3, HTML5, Angular, AngularJS, Web UI, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Web App UI, Responsive UI, CSS, WordPress, Agile, Agile UX, Agile Workflow, TypeScript, CSS3 Animation, PHP, MySQL, Less, Node.js, MongoDB, Express.js, UI Components, C#, Windows, Ubuntu Linux, Pixel Perfect, User Interface Engineering (UIE), Agile Sprints, Responsive Design, Responsive UX Design, Responsive Web Apps, HTML, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Web UI Design, Responsive, Responsive Layout, SCSS, Parallax, Adobe Experience Design (XD), NgRx, PSD Slicing, PSD to HTML, Adobe, WordPress API, MEAN Stack, Databases, NoSQL, Java, Ajax, Responsive Web Design (RWD), UI Animation, 2D, HTML Templates, Front-end, APIs, Google Maps API, Calculators, Web Forms, Web Application Forms, WordPress Plugins, Excel 365, WebSockets, Bitbucket, Software Design, Desktop App Development, Requirements Analysis, Desktop, Desktop Web Design, Architecture, Leadership, Electron, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD Pipelines, Redux, XML, API Integration, REST APIs, Chromium, Figma, Forms, Canvas, Web Applications, Diagrams, D3.js, Chart.js, Chrome Developer Tools, Elasticsearch, SaaS, Analytics, System Requirements, Data Processing, System Architecture, CRM APIs, Algorithms, Test-driven Development (TDD), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Calendar, Docker, SQL, .NET Core, Selenium, Sass, LAMP, Branding, Photoshop 2018, UI Design, Web Design, Websites, Vanilla JS, Content Management Systems (CMS), Back-end, Performance, Headless CMS, Large-scale Projects, HTTP, REST, Bootstrap 4, JSON, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Finance APIs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), eCommerce, Microservices, AWS Lambda, Technical Architecture
Experience
Out Of Many Media
https://outof-many.comA company website for Out Of Many Media, a film production company based in Los Angeles, CA. I designed and developed this site with an Angular front-end using a custom-built UI component library and a WordPress back-end to allow easy content updates and customization.
Sade C. Joseph Website
https://sadecjoseph.com/A company website for Sade C. Joseph, a film director based in Los Angeles, CA. I designed and developed this site with an Angular front-end using a custom-built UI component library and a WordPress back end to allow easy content updates and customization.
ProForm
https://proform.ioProForm is a talent engagement and analytic platform that allows organizations to automate screening processes. Through ProForm, a company can set up job simulations that mimic the real day activities on the job and combine them with traditional job questionnaires to gather a clearer picture of the candidate's capabilities.
ProForm also allows recruiters to benchmark candidates and current employees to one another across various metrics so you can find people that not only can perform the job correctly but similarly solve problems to your existing employees.
I designed the entire user experience for ProForm, I regularly design and engineer new features, and I currently lead the whole UI team and final review all front-end code. I also created and developed most of the simulations and questionnaires on the system.
Simulations I've developed include Angular and Java developer simulations with full code IDEs in the browser, recruiting simulations that present the applicant with a full mock desktop environment in the browser, and the pre-screening questionnaire building tool that is currently used for over 90% of the county government jobs in Montgomery County, MD.
ProForm also allows recruiters to benchmark candidates and current employees to one another across various metrics so you can find people that not only can perform the job correctly but similarly solve problems to your existing employees.
I designed the entire user experience for ProForm, I regularly design and engineer new features, and I currently lead the whole UI team and final review all front-end code. I also created and developed most of the simulations and questionnaires on the system.
Simulations I've developed include Angular and Java developer simulations with full code IDEs in the browser, recruiting simulations that present the applicant with a full mock desktop environment in the browser, and the pre-screening questionnaire building tool that is currently used for over 90% of the county government jobs in Montgomery County, MD.
Sourcegy
https://sourcegy.app/Sourcegy is a talent-sourcing web application for aggregating and organizing talent searches across multiple sources (LinkedIn, Google, Indeed, and so on). Sourcegy allows you to define a job once, and automatically generate search terms for each external source to easily find people who match the job description. A browser extension also allows you to import profiles from external sources directly into your Sourcegy pool. The application contains data visualization and reporting capabilities as well.
I designed and developed this entire app, including the front end, back end, and database. I was the sole UI designer and full-stack developer for this application.
I designed and developed this entire app, including the front end, back end, and database. I was the sole UI designer and full-stack developer for this application.
HalfShell Media Website
The HalfShell Media website is an interactive portfolio site for the digital media company I founded. The entire site was designed and developed by me, showing my design style, both in the site itself and in the portfolio of projects contained on the site.
MEAN Stack App Troubleshooting
A development agency had a legacy app that needed to be supported through the end of the year. Still, a recent update to MongoDB Atlas made that app incompatible, and I was tasked with troubleshooting this issue. After determining the risks of updating the legacy codebase and its dependencies to match the new MongoDB version, I decided to spin up a new custom MongoDB server with the legacy version of MongoDB that was compatible with their app.
I provisioned a new Amazon EC2 instance with the correct MongoDB version, replica sets, and 30 days of automated rolling DB backups to Amazon S3. This new configuration fulfilled their client's application needs and reduced their MongoDB costs by around 80%.
I provisioned a new Amazon EC2 instance with the correct MongoDB version, replica sets, and 30 days of automated rolling DB backups to Amazon S3. This new configuration fulfilled their client's application needs and reduced their MongoDB costs by around 80%.
Education
2008 - 2009
Completed Credits towards a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Maryland, Baltimore County - Baltimore, MD, USA
Certifications
SEPTEMBER 2016 - PRESENT
Programming with C#
Microsoft
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Node.js, Vue, Stripe, Google Maps API, React, REST APIs, Vue 3, NgRx, Parallax, D3.js, Chart.js, SignalR, WordPress API, Entity Framework, Stripe API, RxJS, DevExtreme, Web Worker, HTML5 Web Workers, Three.js, WebGL, OpenAI API
Tools
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Angular CLI, Figma, Bitbucket, Canvas, Chrome Developer Tools, Photoshop 2018, Adobe Experience Design (XD), GitHub, GIS, Git, Adobe, MongoDB Atlas, GitLab, Vue CLI, Jira, Apache, Blender, PageSpeed, Lighthouse, Prisma
Languages
HTML5, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, CSS3, CSS, SCSS, Python, XML, Sass, ECMAScript (ES6), C#, Less, SQL, GraphQL, Java
Frameworks
Angular, Express.js, Bootstrap, Vuetify, Nuxt.js, Electron, Tailwind CSS, Vanilla JS, AngularJS, .NET, Next.js, Redux, Ionic, Laravel, .NET Core, Selenium, React Native, NestJS, .NET 5, Angular Material, Telerik Kendo UI, Serverless Framework
Paradigms
Web UI Design, Agile, Agile UX, Agile Workflow, Responsive, Responsive Layout, MEAN Stack, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Desktop App Development, Requirements Analysis, Desktop Web Design, Test-driven Development (TDD), UI Design, REST, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Microservices, Azure DevOps, Serverless Architecture
Platforms
WordPress, Windows, Desktop, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Firebase, Amazon Web Services (AWS), MacOS, Amazon EC2, Webflow, Docker, Kubernetes, LAMP, AWS Lambda, Ubuntu Linux, Azure, Vercel
Storage
MongoDB, Web Forms, JSON, MySQL, Databases, NoSQL, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, Redis
Industry Expertise
Web Design
Other
Pixel Perfect, User Interface (UI), User Interface Engineering (UIE), User Experience (UX), Web UI, Web App UI, Agile Sprints, Responsive UI, Responsive Design, Responsive UX Design, Responsive Web Apps, UI Components, Ajax, UI Animation, 2D, HTML Templates, Front-end, APIs, Calculators, Web Application Forms, WordPress Plugins, WebSockets, Software Design, Architecture, Leadership, Data Visualization, API Integration, Chromium, Forms, Web Applications, Diagrams, SaaS, Algorithms, Back-end, Google Calendar, Chrome Extensions, Payment APIs, Websites, Content Management Systems (CMS), Performance, Headless CMS, Large-scale Projects, Finance APIs, Application State Management, Pinia, CSS3 Animation, PSD Slicing, PSD to HTML, Full-stack, Excel 365, CI/CD Pipelines, Web Scraping, Game Development, Storybook, Analytics, System Requirements, Data Processing, System Architecture, CRM APIs, Cloudflare, OAuth, Calendars, Scheduling, Branding, HTTP, Bootstrap 4, Natural Language Processing (NLP), eCommerce, Technical Architecture, Large Language Models (LLMs), Open-source LLMs, Backlog Management, IT Project Management, Web Project Management, Repository Pattern, Webhooks, Component Libraries, GoDaddy, 3D, Headless UI, SEO Tools, Integration, Web Components, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Serverless
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