Blake Sutton

Driven engineer with over 7 years of proven professional experience. Passionate about solving problems and building digital products with a focus on scalable front-end systems and user experience in the browser. In short, facilitating custom front-end solutions and helping businesses build international, accessible, and efficient sites and apps.

Experience

• Working with the web team to develop rich and unique web experiences, push exciting new products, collaborate on design processes, optimize pages & page performance, and explore the future of gaming innovation.
• Scaling a headless front-end ecosystem to deliver a highly performant and user-centric experience.
• Helped launch the Instinct, Reflex, and Envision products (controllers for Xbox, Playstation 5, and PC). The launches were resoundingly successful, driving over 10 million page views to the site, selling out in record time, and earning high praise from gaming hardware reviewers.

• Focused on providing players with the resources they need to get into Kendama.
• Social media presence on: Tiktok, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

• Led new website, app and theme development projects through the full development cycle with Kanban from initial concept through planning, design, review, development, QA, launch and maintenance.
• Enhanced a vast array of websites, plugins and applications which resulted in increased conversion rates, performance and sales for both small and large businesses around the Atlanta area.
• Improved code (strong PHP & Angular Stack), took amazing designs and made them real, performed unit testing, mentoring, time tracking and documentation.

• Created a content template (Handlebars.js & Express.js with a custom RESTful API and MongoDB backend) for a variety of competitive games with the help of my coding mentor.
• Scaffolded using AWS Infrastructure which allowed for fast EC2 auto scaling and efficient load balancing.
• Marketed to hundreds of thousands of viewers and served as a helpful pillar in a few online gaming communities.

• Successfully took an amazing website concept and made it a reality.
• The website generated new sales for the business and was received with stellar remarks.
• Trained staff on how to use and update the custom (WordPress) content management back-end.
• No prior website or marketing strategy existed before the endeavor to create one.

Projects

• Dashboard for making Awesome List more organizable and readable.
• This project got me into the GitHub Developer Program and helped other developers in the community.
• Built with: Vue.js, Vuetify, Webpack, JSON (Source code available)

• Dashboard for finding and watching movies with your cat.
• Built with: React.js, Axios, and TMDB (Source code available)

• One of my first ever websites was created during junior year of high school for Physics!
• Built with: Wordpress (Source code available)

Skills

Strengths

• HTML5, CSS3, and Modern JavaScript
• React & Vue, Redux & Vuex, ES6+, Typescript, PHP, SASS, LESS, Web Tools, Git, APIs
• CSS Frameworks: Bootstrap, Bulma, Vuetify, Material-UI.
• Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Bundling pipelines: Webpack, Gulp, Browserify, DDEV.
• ENV Tools: Git, Bash, SSH, Docker, Yarn, NPM
• Compilers & Linters: Babel, ESLint, PHPLint.
• Content Management Systems: Shopify, WordPress, Magento, Contentful, Prismic
• Development & Design Tools: Visual Studio Code, Photoshop, Office, Todoist, MURAL.
• Software Development Methodologies: Unit Testing, Software Design Patterns (Gang of 4), Documentation Patterns (Commenting, PR review, etc), Data Structures and Algorithms Efficience, Debugging Techniques, Version Control.

Personal Qualities

Collaborator, Communicator, Problem-solver, Studious, Well Organized, Proficient Multitasker, Management Skills, Efficient Work, Customer Service, Conflict Resolver, Teamwork, Persistence, High Energy, Tending to Customer Needs, Thoroughness, Professionalism, Fostering Relationships, Physical Stamina, Articulate & Well Spoken, Technology Savvy, Adaptable to New Trends, Responsible, Creative

More information available upon request.