Vance Avenido Ingalls, Developer in Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Vance Avenido Ingalls

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Location
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Toptal Member Since
January 14, 2016

Vance has over 11 years of experience developing dynamic complex user interfaces using the latest tools available. He has built web applications for five startups (Coalition, Confluent, Metromile, Badgeville, and TripTrace). He is a very effective communicator and holds a degree in philosophy from UC Berkeley. Vance is proficient in JavaScript, CSS, HTML, React, and several frameworks.

Front-endUser Interface (UI)GitCSSGitHubJavaScriptHTML5TypeScriptReactAngularJSAnimationGulpjQueryModel View Controller (MVC)Visual Studio

Portfolio

Snap Inc.
React, GraphQL, React Apollo, Kubernetes, JavaScript, Git, CSS, HTML, GitHub...
Coalition
RxJS, Yup, Fela, Axios, Webpack 4, Yarn Workspaces, YARN, MJML, Formik, Redux...
Metromile
Protractor, Jasmine, NGINX, CoffeeScript, Sass, JADE, Gulp, Grunt...

Experience

JavaScript - 10 yearsHTML5 - 6 yearsGulp - 6 yearsCoffeeScript - 3 yearsSass - 3 yearsBackbone.js - 3 yearsNGINX - 2 yearsAngularJS - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Bash, Stash, Jira, Git, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), GitHub, Front-end, Visual Studio

The most amazing...

...projects I've created are three Angular applications which share components by using a private bower repo to host the various components.

Work Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

2021 - 2022
Snap Inc.
  • Primary dev for a business partner portal for the Lens platform SDK.
  • Implemented a ghost mode feature allowing internal users to auth using google credentials and view a read-only version of the portal for any partner organization account.
  • Created new deployment pipelines targeting various K8 clusters to aid in release cycles for our QA team.
  • Made a visual analytics dashboard for partners to view performance metrics related to their integration using an internal stats API under active development.
Technologies: React, GraphQL, React Apollo, Kubernetes, JavaScript, Git, CSS, HTML, GitHub, Responsive Design, CSS3, Pixel Perfect, User Interface (UI), Node.js, Webpack, APIs, TypeScript, Animation, HTML UI

Senior Front-end Engineer

2017 - 2021
Coalition
  • Made outstanding contributions in the hiring process across engineering, product, and design.
  • Researched and developed a playbook for all email campaigns to keep emails out of the Gmail promo tab using MJML.
  • Strategized and led efforts to realize a unified design system across several properties, including an acquired company.
  • Used learnings from Metromile to guide decisions on architecture in a new insurance company.
  • Made a presentation on UX for a high school field trip to Coalition.
  • Built internal-facing tools using a custom form management solution built with various react hooks.
  • Created a broker-facing quote and policy dashboard in React Redux.
Technologies: RxJS, Yup, Fela, Axios, Webpack 4, Yarn Workspaces, YARN, MJML, Formik, Redux, React, JavaScript, Git, CSS, HTML, GitHub, Responsive Design, CSS3, Pixel Perfect, User Interface (UI), Amazon Cognito, REST APIs, Node.js, Next.js, Webpack, APIs, TypeScript, HTML UI

Lead Front-end Engineer

2013 - 2017
Metromile
  • Built the current consumer-facing signup and dashboard applications in Backbone as a team of one while maintaining the existing application.
  • Devised and executed a strategy to reuse Angular components across the three applications using a private bower repo.
  • Led a team of four engineers to rebuild both consumer-facing applications as well as a company-facing insurance endorsement application in Angular and Gulp.
  • Created an end-to-end testing application using a page objects architecture.
  • Converted our application build processes to Gulp from Grunt to speed up testing and deployments.
Technologies: Protractor, Jasmine, NGINX, CoffeeScript, Sass, JADE, Gulp, Grunt, Knockout (Knockout.js), Backbone.js, AngularJS, JavaScript, Git, CSS, HTML, GitHub, Responsive Design, CSS3, Pixel Perfect, User Interface (UI), Angular, REST APIs, Node.js, APIs, TypeScript, Animation, GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP), HTML UI

Senior Front-end Engineer

2011 - 2013
Badgeville
  • Built 3D consumer-facing widgets to display leaderboards, account settings, user profile, and other tools related to our clients' gamification needs.
  • Architected and built a JavaScript SDK to allow our more advanced clients the ability to craft a more custom experience by interacting directly with their users' data.
  • Devised a method to divide our library into separate parts to increase load time performance for our clients utilizing our SDK libraries.
  • After dividing our library into parts, created a method to read the custom scripts utilizing those libraries to automatically detect which libraries to load.
  • Led a user research program to learn the needs of our clients in order to prioritize the features built in the JavaScript SDK.
Technologies: Widgets, jQuery, Backbone.js, CSS, JavaScript, Git, HTML, GitHub, Responsive Design, CSS3, User Interface (UI), REST APIs, APIs, HTML UI

Senior Front-end Engineer

2009 - 2011
Triptrace
  • Built 3 distinct applications utilizing shared components without a modern MV* framework.
  • Created a trip planning application on top of Google Maps, pulling location data from several point-of-interest APIs, allowing users to save events and places for upcoming trips.
  • Built a flight planning application using the Kayak Trips API.
  • Built a Chrome plugin bookmarklet tool, which scraped the current page of any website for places and dates and saved them to the user's account to be brought up on their trip planning page later.
  • Built a road trip planning application providing the user the ability to specify a variable distance away from the planned route to search for points of interest between two locations.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, jQuery, JavaScript, Git, GitHub, Responsive Design, User Interface (UI), APIs, HTML UI

Sole Proprietor

2007 - 2011
Ingalls Creative (independent contractor)
  • Met with clients to discuss and advise on applications needed for their businesses.
  • Built customizable web stores using Drupal and Übercart.
  • Built customizable marketing and portfolio websites using WordPress and Drupal.
  • Managed client expectations and built strong relationships to foster a steady growing pool of clients.
  • Built several generic WordPress themes to resell to clients with limited resources.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Drupal, WordPress, Git, GitHub, UI Design, Front-end Design, User Interface (UI), HTML UI

Metromile Auto Insurance Enrollment

http://www.metromile.com/welcome
This application is set up to surface different questions depending on the user's locale, as every state has different insurance regulations. Since the product is only available in a few states at the moment, you must use a zip code from one of the following states to get started: California, Illinois, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington

Badgeville GameView Widgets

Please refer to description in link or description in employment section.

TripTrace (Various Applications)

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/16/triptrace/
Since the application is no longer in service, this is the only reference to best showcase the features of the applications built and mentioned in the employment section.

Coalition

http://www.coalitioninc.com
I worked on applications spanning B2B, B2C, and internal tools, forming heavy applications with complex validations and error states. I served closely alongside product and design to develop a coherent design pattern language to span across several teams including those in Portugal.

Languages

CSS, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Bash, Sass, JADE, GraphQL

Frameworks

AngularJS, Redux, MJML, YARN, Jasmine, Angular, Next.js, Knockout (Knockout.js), Protractor

Libraries/APIs

React, jQuery, Backbone.js, REST APIs, Formik, Yup, RxJS, Backbone.Marionette, Node.js

Tools

Git, GitHub, Yarn Workspaces, Gulp, Grunt, Visual Studio, Webpack, IntelliJ IDEA, Jira, Stash, Webpack 4, Figma, NGINX, React Apollo, Amazon Cognito

Other

Software Development, Front-end, Responsive Design, Front-end Design, Pixel Perfect, User Interface (UI), APIs, HTML UI, Fela, Animation, Widgets, Axios

Paradigms

Model View Controller (MVC), UI Design

Platforms

GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP), WordPress, Drupal, Shopify, Kubernetes, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

2003 - 2007

Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy

University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley, CA

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