Darnell Arford

About Darnell Arford

I specialize in Web UI Engineering and Rest API development. My most recent experience has been 4 years of development with React + Redux + reselect building highly performant, responsive front-ends, and Node.js + Express for writing API endpoints. I have prior experience with PHP / MySQL, C#(for writing a Rest API), Angular.js, and the Go language.I also have experience with:* Rest API design and documentation* Building mock servers for use in development and testing* Command line tools using Node.js and Commander* Internal tools (Rest API and UI) to assist with process automation and generating test data* Workflow automation with NPM, Bower, Gulp, Grunt, ESLint, etc.* Travis-CI configuration* Docker builds and deployment (on some small projects)* Writing Chrome Extensions* Scraping data from the Web* Among many other technologies.Notable projects:* Scope WebApp and Chrome Extension for Amazon product research (React)* Ignite UI for managing Amazon advertising campaigns* AyCad CMS (PHP / MySQL)* Numerous websites, interactive web interfaces, Internet Banking implementations and customizations* Network storage management front ends for managing ZFS NAS and AoE SAN appliances (Angular + Node.js tools for development and test data generation)* Rest API design for Coraid SRX storage applianceMy professional interests:* Full stack web software development in Node.js ecosystem* Strong advocate for remote workers and an effective remote work experience* Interviewing, teaching, training, and pairing with fellow engineers* Presenting on technical topics* Co-presenting on technical topics with junior or aspiring Software Engineers* Building quality software based on best practices, patterns* Writing thorough, professional technical documentation of Rest APIs and software packages and components* Scrum / Agile process

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Rocket Money

   Apr 2024 — Present · Athens, GA, US

   Full stack Node.js/React development on AWS. Working with GraphQL, ECS, and SQS queues.

Education

• The University of Georgia

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

  2000 — 2003

• The University of Georgia

  Master of Business Technology - Terry College of Business, Project Management, Web Programming, etc.

  2003 — 2004

Skills

• Web Development
• Css
• Jquery
• Javascript
• Web Applications
• Ajax
• Html 5
• Apache
• Php
• Xml
• Java
• Xhtml
• Mysql
• Agile Methodologies
• Git
• Web Programming
• Advanced Css
• Html
• Linux
• Software Development
• Xslt
• Databases
• Html5
• Os X
• Json
• Web Services
• User Interface Design
• Twitter Bootstrap
• Mysql Database Design
• C#
• Sql
• Webex
• Less Css
• Rest
• Oop
• Atlassian Jira
• Angularjs
• React.js
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Es6