Byron Hulcher

(301) 356-3751 Remote / New York / New Jersey
(301) 356-3751 Remote / New York / New Jersey
Software engineer with 13 years of industry experience building full-stack web applications and engaging front-end experiences. Prior work includes direct-to-consumer sales, enterprise SaaS, content management systems, and social networks.

Skills

Front-end development: React, Redux, TypeScript, SASS

Additional experience in: PWA development, responsive design, a11y, Vue, Angular

Full-stack development: Node.js, Next.js, Elasticsearch, build tooling

Additional experience in: Ruby, Python, API development

Dev Ops: Docker, AWS, continuous integration

Additional experience in: Unit testing, internal tool development, CLI development

Additional experience in: AB Testing/Experimentation, CMS development, game development

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

@ Jabra Hearing

Remote (Feb 2023 - Current)
  • Collaboration with Product and Design teams to conceptualize new website features and launch new consumer products
  • Improving lead generation and conversion through experimentation using Unleash, Segment, and Amplitude
  • Working with Leadership and Legal teams to improve our PII and PHI auditing process
  • Implementing continuous integration with GitHub Actions to reduce frequency of failed builds and releases
  • Building internal tools for tracking and coordinating releases across multiple repositories and environments
  • Providing on-call production support

Senior Software Engineer

@ Elastic

Remote (Dec 2018 - Dec 2022)

Web Developer & Team Lead

@ New York Magazine

NY, NY (Apr 2016 - Dec 2018)
  • Responsible for The Cut and Intelligencer sites and universal article experience across all verticals
  • Launched politics and technology vertical Intelligencer, featuring a new homepage combining article content with manually curated "snackable" content
  • Released a re-designed article template for all NY Mag verticals, the first in five years
  • Relaunched The Cut with a new homepage, awarded Website of the Year by Adweek and nominated for a Digiday Publishing Award
  • Built new image gallery article type to replace out-dated slideshows running on a legacy CMS

Software Engineer

@ Meetup

NY, NY (Oct 2014 - Apr 2016)
  • Created customer facing pages and flows for new enterprise product
  • Moved Meetup.com front-end towards a mobile-first responsive design using in-house CSS framework
  • Supported other front-end engineers with back-end code in Python, Java, and Scala

Full-Stack Software Engineer

@ JW Player

NY, NY (Nov 2013 - Sep 2014)
  • Maintained and implemented new features for the existing JW Player Angular.js dashboard and Python-driven back-end platform

Full-Stack Developer

@ Stray Boots

NY, NY (Dec 2012 - Nov 2013)
  • Designed and implemented API and dashboard for user accounts and multi-device gameplay, including updates to Backbone.js-driven front-end and Django-powered back-end

Full-Stack Developer

@ Offerpop

NY, NY (Jun 2011 - Dec 2012)
  • Built Facebook apps using Django and Backbone.js for clients such as MTV, Marvel, Universal Music, Disney, Unilever, and Wells Fargo

Education

B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Games & Simulations Arts and Sciences

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Sep 2007- May 2011)

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