# Brett Bukowski Software Engineer - San Francisco, CA - - - - [https://github.com/BrettBukowski](GitHub - BrettBukowski) ### Overview I'm an experienced software developer looking to advance my career. I want to help build a product where a clear vision and a talented group of people executing on that vision produces software that helps millions of people. I want to help solve challenging problems. I'm learning to ask better questions. I hope to work with and learn from other skilled engineers in order to deepen my programming skills and learn new ways of solving problems. * I place a strong emphasis on writing testable code that's intended for consumption by other developers. * I value readable code and I'm always in search of more elegant solutions. * I enjoy learning new programming languages and at becoming more adept with languages that I'm familiar with. * I'm accustomed to shipping software using an agile methodology and scrum process. * I have practical knowledge of relational databases, distributed memory caches, and other technologies used to build modern, scalable web applications. ### Skills #### Languages * JavaScript * Ruby * Swift * Objective-C * PHP * Go * Python * Perl * C# * Java * C #### Experience with the following frameworks and technologies * UIKit * Rails, Sinatra * React, Backbone, AngularJS * Express * Apache, Nginx * MySQL, Postgres * Redis, memcached * MongoDB, CouchDB * LESS, SASS, vanilla CSS #### Areas of Expertise Adept at building iOS applications using tools like: * UIKit libraries * Autolayout * Cocoapods * Unit tests and functional testing (Calabash) * Libraries like AFNetworking, Snapkit, etc. Highly-skilled in front-end web development techniques such as: * Modern React and Rails applications * CSS (CSS3 as well as preprocessor frameworks) * HTML5 elements and modern browser APIs * Web page accessibility (supporting JAWS and Voiceover screen readers) * Responsive web design as well as websites designed specifically for mobile devices ### Work Experience 2015 - Present #### Tilt.com - San Francisco, CA Full-stack Engineer Served on several different teams, adapting to the needs of rapidly-growing company **Rails Engineer - Internal tools** (January 2015 - September 2015) * Built a number of high-value internal features in a Rails-based internal web app that provided value to customer support and the growth teams * Created an ambassador portal website where brand ambassadors could view leaderboards and detailed stats about promo code usage * Co-created an internal intranet-lite site where employees can find company resources and easily see key company metrics and stats * Created a feedback system where employees can quickly and easily give feedback to one another **Web/API Engineer - Growth engineering** (September 2015 - January 2016) * Ran a number of A/B experiments with goal of moving quickly and achieving maximum new user growth * Implemented two different homepage experiments (six total variations), ultimately finding one that gained an X% uptick in new user signups * Ran several mobile web splash screen and deep-linking experiments * Built the API and internal dashboard for an in-app promotional landing feature **iOS/Web Engineer - Revenue** (January 2016 - Present) * Built a campaign web dashboard for organizers to view key stats and administer their campaigns * Added a verified seller feature (API and UI in the Tilt iOS app) * Referral sales system * Ticket checkin w/ QR code scanner * Marketing promotion popup * Refactored a large portion of the codebase from Objective-C to Swift and drove the Swift 3.0 migration 2008 - Present #### RightNow Technologies (Acquired by Oracle, 2012) - Bozeman, MT Web Developer Lead member on a team building a web platform powering many large companies' customer support websites. **Overview** * Built developer-facing framework APIs in PHP and JavaScript. * Made enduser-facing features comprised of PHP, JavaScript, and CSS components. * Interacted daily with customers and platform developers via web forums. * Gave multiple talks at developer conferences (2010 & 2011 RightNow Developers Conference) and several talks internal to the organization. * Built and maintained several internal, standalone web apps and other internal tools as part of 20% time. * 4-time RightNow-Oracle development hackathon winner (1 solo, 3 team). ### Side Projects These are some things I've built to scratch an itch and to explore technologies outside the purview of what I'd see at work. #### [CatchLater](https://catchlater.com) Web app to stash off online videos (Youtube, Vimeo, TED, etc.) for watching later. → Built using Rails and MongoDB. #### [TweetStasher](http://tweetstasher.com) Simple web app to save off drafts of tweets to post later. → Small NodeJS app built with Express, Backbone, and CouchDB. #### [Colorant](http://colorantapp.com) Niche iPhone app to inspect colors in photos with a color picker and view generated color palettes. → Built with pure Objective-C and UIKit APIs. #### [Tomatar](http://tomatar.com) Pomodoro timer web app. → Built with AngularJS, Postgres, and the Flatiron NodeJS libraries. ***** I would love to work with you. 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