Brian W

Software Engineer

Gifford Lake Labs • Temps partiel

Aug 2023 - Mar 2025 • 1 yr 7 mos

-Designed and deployed RESTful APIs using ASP.NET MVC, enhancing seamless communication between front-end and back-end components, resulting in improved user interaction and system efficiency. -Developed efficient database schemas and managed migrations with Entity Framework, ensuring optimal data storage, retrieval, and scalability. -Improved performance by preloading pages with Next.js’s getStaticProps and getServerSideProps, optimizing API calls using React Query, enhancing security with JWT-based authentication, and boosting efficiency through lazy loading and code-splitting. -Conducted comprehensive testing of API endpoints using xUnit and Postman, performing unit and integration tests to ensure backend reliability and performance. -Boosted application response times by 30% through detailed analysis and optimization of SQL queries, delivering a significantly enhanced user experience. -Utilized Git for version control, enabling efficient collaboration and effective code change management within the development team. -Built a dynamic single-page application (SPA) using React, creating reusable components and optimizing performance for a responsive user interface. -Managed application state with Redux, ensuring efficient data flow and synchronization, and implemented middleware to handle asynchronous actions. -Designed and secured RESTful APIs with ASP.NET Web API, enabling smooth communication and safeguarding data using token-based authentication.

Frontend Developer

AltFantasySports • Temps plein

Sep 2022 - May 2023 • 8 mos

AltFantasySports is an open source fantasy sports platform. It is currently the most popular fantasy sports platform for spring gridiron football and international cricket. With innovative season-long and daily fantasy sports games, AltFantasySports allows hundreds of thousands of users around the world to play fantasy sports all year round. - FantasyPros is one of the largest providers of fantasy sports and sports betting analysis. -Developed a sports betting analysis platform using Next.js/Fast API, integrating real-time odds, predictive analytics, and user authentication to help users make data-driven betting decisions. - Designed RESTful APIs to facilitate seamless communication between various project management tools and systems. - Created and optimized database schemas for MySQL to handle large volumes of bid and project data. - Implemented real-time project tracking and collaboration features using 3rd-Party Services. - Integrated third-party APIs to provide additional functionalities such as payment processing and project analytics. - Built serverless applications using AWS and collaborated with DevOps teams to implement CI/CD pipelines. - Developed and maintained a Construction Management System using Next.js/TypeScript/TailwindCSS. - Implemented front-end features and functionality based on design mockups and user stories.

C#/ ASP.NET Engineer

web3devs | Connecting businesses to Blockchain Technology • Temps plein

Dec 2019 - Jul 2022 • 2 yrs 7 mos

- Developed custom modules and interfaces using C#, .NET technologies to tailor solutions for specific business needs, enhancing application functionality and adaptability. - Engineered robust cross-platform applications using the Mono framework, enabling seamless deployment and performance optimization across various operating systems. - Created ASP.NET MVC web applications to exercise precise control over client-side scripting with HTML and jQuery, optimizing user interaction and responsiveness. - Implemented AJAX functionality to asynchronously load contents in partial views, minimizing loading time and improving user experience by facilitating seamless data retrieval. - Utilized lambda expressions LINQ to SQL and LINQ to entities for efficient data manipulation and retrieval, ensuring optimized performance and code readability. - Demonstrated proficiency in MongoDB and MySQL databases, leveraging their capabilities to support data-driven application requirements effectively. - Developed secured web services using .NET Web API 2, implementing JSON/REST protocols for seamless communication between applications while prioritizing data security. - Successfully deployed web applications to Microsoft Azure app service web app, leveraging Azure's scalability and reliability features for seamless deployment and management.