Sam Wilson

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States

About

Senior full-stack software engineer with a background in front-end technologies and a focus on architecture. Fast learner of new languages, with an expertise in ES6, PHP, and git, learning .NET and C#, and relearning react.

Experience

  • Staff, Software Development Engineer at Charles Schwab
    Jun 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

  • Senior Front End Web Developer at The Judge Group
    Apr 2019 - Jun 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Volusion (4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Front End Engineer
      Jun 2017 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Built and maintained internal development tools using Node.js and various build tools including Grunt, Gulp, and Webpack. Tools ranged from local development servers used for packaging assets and compiling code for cross-browser support and production environments to CLI tools used to transpile CSV spreadsheets into JSON. Built and maintained Javascript (ES6) site plugins. Examples include store locator which uses Google Location APIs to create a searchable map of physical store locations, and a newsletter modal which connects to various newsletter clients via REST APIs to collect user submitted emails. Last but not least, following designer specifications and acceptance criteria, built and maintained new React Components for various UI elements. Components were used alongside a custom content management system to provide a client configurable site designer.

    • Jr Front End Developer
      May 2016 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Built new Volusion site themes, which consisted of header, footer, and navigational content constructed with HTML, CSS, and JS, along with using CSS to stylize and add responsive behavior to site content provided by a CMS, which mostly consisted of nested HTML tables. I also built new site content with HTML/CSS/JS per client specifications. Examples of content include: custom slideshows, text/image banners, collapsible accordion sections

    • Implementation Specialist
      Sep 2015 - May 2016 · 9 mos

      Utilized SFTP to implement site themes built with HTML, CSS, and JS. I also spent time customizing fonts, colors, spacing, and other various design components for aforementioned themes per client specifications. Additionally, I would create new site content per client specifications (ie. Hero banners, SEO text, image galleries, slideshows, promotional text/image grids, etc)

  • Target (3 yrs 1 mo)
    • Food Services Team Lead
      Jun 2013 - May 2014 · 1 yr

    • Perishables Assistant Lead
      Sep 2012 - Jun 2013 · 10 mos

    • Front End Trainer
      May 2011 - Aug 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Usher/Security at Frank Erwin Center
    Sep 2010 - Feb 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos