Erick Merchant
Objective
Experienced software engineer specializing in front-end web development seeks senior role using the web platform to make performant and accessible web sites/applications.
Employment History
Software Engineer
October 2021 — PresentWorkStep, San Francisco, CA- Worked with Python and React to add features to their product
Senior Software Engineer
August 2019 — October 2021Brightspot, Reston, VA- Developed HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for client websites with a focus on accessibility and performance
- Coded reusable web components
Senior Developer
May 2012 — July 2019Adpearance, Portland, OR- Created the editor for their CMS using jQuery, Nunjucks, and Browserify, then later, Vue and Webpack
- Acted as the lead front-end developer for the team that built the CMS and websites with it
- Drove the adoption of tools such as git, Sass, and gulp, and established conventions for using them
- Assisted designers and other developers in all things JavaScript (jQuery, gulp, Vue, etc)
- Wrote web-scrapers using Puppeteer to populate client sites with their products, and to migrate them from one system to another
- Developed responsive websites using ExpressionEngine
Developer
June 2006 — May 2012NetBiz, Inc., Tualatin, OR- Used PHP and MySQL to develop features for our CMS
- Worked with the Squarespace platform to build sites
- Wrote JavaScript to make interactive elements of client sites
- Developed cross-browser templates based on PSD designs
Education
A.A.S., Web Design
May 2006Tompkins-Cortland Community College, Dryden, NYB.A., Anthropology
May 2002University at Albany, Albany, NY