Dave Paul
Senior Full-stack Engineer | Crafting consistent, delightful, and impactful web experiences.
Projects
Sho.com
Full redesign of sho.com, the marketing site for Showtime, a premium cable channel with 4M monthly visitors at its peak. I led the development of a Design System with a library of 100+ reusable components to support the build.
Sho.com Styleguide
The internal site for cataloging and documenting Showtime's Design System, featuring everything from foundations/primitives to complex components.
Paige
A React client for a headless CMS with features such as composable form UI, date preview, rich-text-editor, filters, themes, and search. Heavily informed by principles of Test-Driven and Behavioral-Driven Development.
Flatbush Pediatrics
A clone of the Tribeca Pediatrics Patient Portal with 80% feature parity. I built the view in React using Shadcn and Chart.js for the ux and Zustand for state. For the backend, I scraped patient data, loaded it into an original schema, and served it with Node.js/Express services.
Park.me
A copy of the NYC parking app, using publicly-available meter data to populate a collection of REST APIs for the geospatial layer, which are consumed by a React client with a Google Maps integration. (In-progress).
Asbo
An aggregator of a few internet radio stations that I was a fan of, but which lacked RSS feeds for their mix shows. It has a React/Redux frontend, Ruby on Rails backend, and uses Nokigiri for scraping and parsing html content to populate the models.
Skills
- React and Next.js
- Redux Toolkit, Zustand and Context API
- JavaScript/ES6+/TypeScript
- HTML5, CSS3, SASS, and Tailwind
- Node.js, NPM and Express
- Figma and StoryBook
- MUI, Shadcn and Chakra UI
- RESTful and GraphQL APIs
- Cross-Device Compatibility
- Performance Profiling and Core Web Vitals
- Test-Driven Development and Unit Testing
- Jest, React Testing Library and Vitest
- Babel, Webpack and Vite
- Git, Github and Git Actions
Work Experience
Freelance New York, NY
Senior Full-Stack Engineer 01/2024 - Current
- Developing a parking app that leverages the Google Maps API to display available meter spots.
- Created a GraphQL api to house thanks and shout-outs as part of a larger multiformat xmas card release.
- Built a patient portal using Shadcn for the frontend, Chart.js for data visualizations, and a Node.js/Express backend.
- Completed modules on Tailwind, GraphQL API integration and Advanced React on FrontendMasters.com.
- Completed Full-Stack Development Path on Codecademy.com.
Showtime Networks New York, NY
Director, Front-end Development 11/2012 - 09/2023
- Championed the use of Design Systems, built a library of 100+ reusable components, accelerating dev time by 2x.
- Led frontend development of a full-redesign of Showtime’s marketing site with 4M monthly unique visitors.
- Partnered with Product to identify features for an MVP, architected a new CMS to power the site, eliminating the need for engineering resources to make content updates and crafting a best-in-class publishing tool from scratch.
- Contributed code, wrote unit tests, and deployed services for Otto, a cloud-native data warehouse built in AWS, facilitating a better understanding of customer acquisition through large scale data extraction and analysis.
- Introduced TDD to the frontend team, reducing regression bugs by ~30% and noticeably improving code quality.
- Migrated build tools from Gulp to Webpack, modernizing the release workflow, reducing asset size by ~35%, and improving compilation times by ~20%.
- Managed 2–3 engineers, mentoring, defining coding standards, and reviewing code; reduced PR revisions by ~25% and helped the team ship features ~15% faster.
Senior Front-end Developer 09/2009 - 11/2012
- Served as Full-Stack developer, creating, iterating on and shipping a Rails CMS that integrated with the legacy Java stack, introducing modern features to existing tools and extending backend team coverage by 25%.
- Frontend Architect of Red Rewards, a suite of features that leveraged a third-party API to bring a gamification layer to the marketing site. Users were incentivized to consume and share content in order to appear in leaderboards and gain access to virtual achievements.
- Developed a custom, overlay/modal-style video player backed by the Brightcove Player API, leading to a superior user experience and a 17% lift in video views.
Frontend Developer 01/2007 - 08/2009
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to build and maintain customer-facing websites, supporting Showtime's original programming, movies and sports.
- Analyzed processes and workflows, introduced Rails-style scaffolding tools for the command-line, improving the developer experience.
Junior Designer 10/2006 - 12/2006
- Designed and produced banners, animations and other visual assets
Freelance New York, NY
Web Developer, Web and Print Designer 01/2003 - 08/2005
- Designed and built websites, e-commerce platforms and content management systems for a diverse clientele, including: musicians, artists, photographers, fashion designers, sign shops, art galleries and record labels.
- Art-directed, designed and performed pre-production on Vinyl/CD packaging for Change Agent, Sound-iNK, WhateverWeWant, and Warp record labels.
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Contact
I'm always interested in connecting with other Software Engineers, Designers, Product/Engineering Managers, and I am currently seeking a new role. If you think there might be a fit on your team, you have a question, or you just want to say hi, hit me up!