Built a fully reactive full-stack Node.js javascript application using the Meteor platform. My contributions included:

• Integrating with various vendor APIs including Stripe for payment processing, Mailchimp for customer engagement and Mailgun for transactional email.

• Setting up staging and production environments in AWS and Compose with load balancers to manage traffic.

• Creating schema in MongoDB and performing CRUD operations

• Writing logic for frontend templates (event handlers, routing, etc)

• Writing test suites in Mocha/Chai

• Working with web/UX designer to make sure vision for interactivity and user flow is fully realized

• Implementing webhooks to sync data between Stripe and local database.

To date we have sold tickets for more than 50 different events and done ~$100K worth of transactions.

In charge of ongoing development and maintenance of Herschel Shopify shop and Wordpress blog. My tasks included:

• Creating a single-page app in Backbone.js to interface with the existing Shopify store

• Setting up a LAMP server for the Wordpress blog on AWS with Varnish proxy to deal with heavy traffic

• Moving all static blog assets to S3 to be served up with Cloudfront

• Integrating enhance analytics and tag management to assist web marketing team

• Aiding web/UX designers in creating interactive one-page promotional sites

Herschel's Shopify site is one of the largest stores on the Shopify platform, combining with the Wordpress site to receive well over a 1 million unique sessions per month. My work with Herschel provided me with valuable experience in working in a heavy traffic environment in which striving for clean, well-tested code with 100% uptime was critical to financial success.