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Web Developer / Software Engineer
Benjamin Eskew
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Résumé, At a Glance

I am a Web Developer with 17+ years of professional experience in all aspects of web development and programming; including interface development, information design, and integrating front-end views with back-end technologies in an elegant fashion. I am seeking a solid career in an established business environment.

Experience

Freelance [2008 - Present]

Los Angeles, CA - Sole Developer

Lead the development of several travel-based web-services for myself and created many travel-related web service integration's with various 3rd party services.

The Laravel framework has been the primary MVC environment being developed with the LEMP stack (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP). Front-end technologies include (definitely not limited to) TailwindCSS, Bootstrap, Webpack, ES6, HTML5 and much more.

Also, have worked on many contract-based projects for other companies.

Sunrise Integration [August 2016 - June 2017]

Hollywood, CA - Web Engineer

Lead the development of many ecommerce-based projects. (Shopify, Magento, custom) Developed Shopify e-commerce projects using the Shopify platform (Liquid templates and also custom Shopify apps).
Educated the entire development team about “new” technologies, including Laravel, Composer, Vagrant, Git, Vue.js, Redis, Node.js, PhoneGap, and various Unix/Linux command-line applications.

PowerHouse Creative, LLC [February 2013 - November 2013]

Hollywood, CA - Senior Developer

Lead the management and production of projects and custom MVC software solutions for fortune 500 and other various companies and corporations.

Technologies utilized here range from LAMP stack builds in the cloud (AWS; RackSpace; DigitalOcean) to simple configurations, depending on the requirements of the client.

trueRSVP, Inc. (Planana) [May 2012 - September 2012]

Hollywood, CA - Lead Developer

Lead the management and production of projects and custom web software development. Managed an out-sourced team of web developers and learned the ins-and-outs of “start-up” business development. Also, was involved in “pitching” the business to investors and agencies.

The LAMP stack was utilized here and a custom framework was developed for the web-services.

Connect a Job, LLC [January 2011 - March 2012]

Canoga Park, CA - Senior Software Engineer

Lead the management and production of several web projects, requiring a small development team, one designer, and a quality assurance engineer.

The LAMP stack was used here. Magento; RackSpace Cloud;

Skills & Expertise

I Follow These Principles:

  • KISS

  • DRY

  • SOLID

  • LoD

I Use This Software:

  • PHPStorm

  • Sublime Text

  • VS Code

  • Vagrant

  • MinGW

  • Putty

I Prefer These Services:

Portfolio

Warehouse Connector
2016-2017
API DataService
2016-2017
Planana
2012
Hyundai LIVE
2013
Babyjogger
2013
Jumpjet
2013
Laugh Roulette
2013
Buy a Safe
2012
Deals on Auto Sales
2013
Luxmo
2010-2011