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paulpooch.com

linkedin.com/in/paulpooch

github.com/paulpooch

Education

University of
North Carolina
at Chapel Hill

B.S. with Highest Honors
Computer Science

December 2007

Currently Using

Javascript / ES2018 HTML5 CSS3 PostCSS React Redux Webpack d3 Node Express PWAs Jest PhotoShop Docker Kubernetes SQL Git Async Code Unix

PAST EXPERIENCE

Android 2.x Rails PHP (LAMP) Java Ruby ASP.NET Web Forms C# WPF Silverlight Backbone Koa CoffeeScript LESS SASS MongoDB S3 DynamoDB WebSockets WebWorkers Gulp Machine Learning

Paul Pucciarelli

Complex Web Applications & Front End Architecture

Dresr

Lead Web Engineer

Oct 2016 - Present

  • Create and own entire web presence - both consumer facing sites and complex internal tools.
  • Engineer a web based style tool to create outfits from 100,000's of products.
  • Build and maintain dresr.com. and yourfitz.com.
  • Develop admin site to manage users, orders, payments, marketing, and content pushed to mobile app.
  • Make all decisions regarding architecture, tooling, and code review.
  • Balance product deadlines with technical debt and code quality across our 3 primary applications.
  • Generate standard conventions and frameworks for app state, styling, testing, error handling, network requests, UI components, etc.
  • Implement webpack build system optimized for web performance in production and ease of use in development.

Ticket Evolution

Lead Front End Engineer

Feb 2013 - Oct 2016

  • Tech Lead for the flagship web application - CORE Point of Sale system - a B2B/B2C ticket exchange.
  • Tech Lead for a white label consumer facing ticket store - friends.ticketevolution.com.
    Various partners have customized instances.
  • Responsible for front end architecture and tooling.
  • Manage team, delegate work items, perform code reviews, build new features, etc.

Merrill Lynch

Associate Vice President

July 2008 - Feb 2013

  • Technical Lead for a team of 5 building a corporate reporting application that collects financial results from hundreds of users - End product generates Form 10-K and 10-Q SEC reports.
    The only Middle Office application of 30+ to remain in green (on-schedule) status throughout its lifetime.
  • Overcome time-zone and communication barriers to effectively utilize offshore resources.
  • Lead on a Silverlight dashboard for real-time profit and loss analysis.
  • Research and prototype a Silverlight framework for building modular financial dashboards with real-time data streaming and lazy loading components.
  • Present framework at Bank of America DevCon as the youngest presenter to date.

Merrill Lynch Tech Analyst

Summer 2007

JPMorgan Chase Tech Intern

Summer 2006

Technical Accomplishments

  • StyleTool to assemble outfits from 100,000s of products and closet items.
    Requires virtualized infinite lists, image zooming, stackable drag and drop items, keyboard shortcuts, resizable elements, autocompleting multiselects, local storage, immutable data stores, css grid, and more.
  • Interactive seating charts in d3 - shows ticket locations within stadium or venue.
  • Ticketmaster barcode reader in canvas.
  • Multi-role stylist appointment scheduling system where users enter availability and view appointments.
  • Sortable, filterable, exportable, infinite data tables with 10,000+ rows.
  • Built and published a local messaging Android App (think YikYak) - github.com/paulpooch/shoutbreak .
    Formed LLC, acquired domain, generated branding and art assets, and wrote all Android code.
  • Numerous full stack side projects complete from photoshopping UI components to implementing scalable infrastructure.