Christopher Michael Reece

Using slack, I teamed up with the CEO and the principal front-end engineer to architect a Calendar automation solution similar to Calendly from scratch using NextJS, Vercel, GCP, MS Azure, NodeJs, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Jest, Prisma, MySQL, and PlanetScale. I developed algorithms to calculate and display a user!s schedule availability by factoring in busy times from various Calendars (Microsoft, Google). I achieved this by writing a Calendar API adapter interface and by implementing functional and object-oriented programming design patterns. I also performed code reviews via pull request to encourage developer growth and sound coding practices. And I designed and implemented the API using OpenAPI, test-driven development, and OAuth 2.0. In addition, I planned, estimated, and prioritized user stories and the product roadmap for both front-end and back-end development. And designed and implemented a scalable database to work with Lambda API functions using Prisma, MySQL, and Vitess-based architecture (PlanetScale).

As a part of Arc.dev’s elite network of software engineers, I’ve offered clients full-stack web development services worldwide. I arrived via slack to collaborate with small teams, leading the project by inviting teamwork, facilitating planning, practicing kindness, and sharing productive programming principles such as test driven development, commenting hygiene, and code modularity. Whether drafting coding guidelines, counseling with CEOs, or setting up and deploying entire web apps from scratch, I played a key role in improving engineering output and helping clients and teams reach their goals. Using Arc.dev’s mentoring platform Codementor, I’ve also had the opportunity to mentor and pair-program with individuals who are learning to program or stuck on a difficult bug during their developer job.

Working asynchronously with a distributed team, we engineered a Learning Management (LMS) Application for the United States Air Force!s LMS (Canvas), which allowed teachers and staff to create and use quizzes from Qualtrics (a survey SaSS) inside of their LMS. During development, our team significantly improved engineering efficiency by extracting components from other projects into a Storybook project or a React component library (previously I had given a company-wide presentation and tutorial on the benefits of Storybook). I mentored Jr. developers by performing code reviews, pair programming, sharing technical content, encouraging teamwork and unity, and nourished friendship. Together, we ensured code quality and robustness by writing tests using Rspec, Jest, Cypress, and React Testing Library. Along with full-stack development, some of the core features I lead were: designing and implementing the database, running migrations (Ruby on Rails), writing a testing CLI to generate variable testing data against several APIs (with great Dev. Ex.), handling OAuth 2.0 in an iFrame, and implementing a GraphQL connection and SQL for paginated, sortable, and searchable data.