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Stephen Polito

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Location

Mansfield, MA, United States

Toptal Member Since

April 27, 2020

Stephen is a curious web developer passionate about the intersection between best practices, user experience, and client demands. He brings seven years of experience building high-traffic tourism websites, niche medical landing pages, and full-stack SaaS applications. He utilizes a breadth of platforms and frameworks to develop and deliver high-performing, top products.

WordPress Bootstrap Drupal 7 Git Ruby on Rails (RoR)Jekyll React MacOS Ruby Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Portfolio

Shields Design Studio

Git, Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, MJML, Gatsby, Jekyll, Drupal 7...

Experience

Git - 8 years Bootstrap - 8 years Drupal 7 - 8 years JavaScript - 8 years WordPress - 6 years Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 5 years Jekyll - 3 years MJML - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Slack, MacOS

The most amazing...

...application I've designed and developed is a service that alerts users when their website is down and also takes daily screenshots.

Work Experience

Full-stack Web Developer

2012 - PRESENT

Shields Design Studio

Designed and developed an application to monitor website downtime and create a daily screenshot archive.
Programmed an application allowing users to create a web page for their running club or to promote a road race.
Instituted a proximity search permitting users to search for a road race or running club based on their location.
Architected an application to facilitate and organize the process of ordering medical equipment.

Technologies: Git, Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, MJML, Gatsby, Jekyll, Drupal 7, WordPress

Experience

Simple Site Status

Designed and developed an application to monitor website downtime and create a daily screenshot archive. Leveraged RSpec, Capybara, factory_bot_rails, and Database_cleaner during TDD to avoid regressions and ensure a stable product. Developed custom jobs with Sidekiq to handle email notifications, generate screenshots and delete archived data. Configured the active storage to upload screenshots to Amazon S3.

Track and Field Clubs

Programmed a SaaS application allowing users to create a web page for their running club or to promote a road race. Instituted a proximity search permitting users to search for a road race or running club based in their location. Developed a web scraper with Nokogiri to populate the initial data set. Used Minitest and fixtures to test the logic, which verifies whether a user can claim a listing.

WordPress Tutorials

https://stevepolito.design/categories/word-press

A blog of tutorials and tips I've written about WordPress. Posts range from a tutorial on how to create a proximity search to detailed instructions on how to build a boilerplate starter theme with Bootstrap.

Skills

Platforms

WordPress, Drupal 7, MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Languages

JavaScript, Ruby

Frameworks

Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails (RoR), MJML

Tools

Jekyll, Git, Slack

Libraries/APIs

React

Other

Gatsby

Education

2008 - 2012

Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design

Stonehill College - Easton, Massachusetts, USA