Tanner Smith

I worked on a wide variety of projects during my time at Valtech (formerly Kin + Carta). Some sites of note that I worked on include:

• Konicaminolta.eu

• Mofo.com (Morrison Foerster)

• Trimble.com

Roles I filled during my time here included:

• Senior front-end engineer (1 year):

  • Contributed to mobile-responsive, React-based component libraries (TypeScript, JSX, ES6, CSS, SCSS, Tailwind)

  • Documented components (Storybook)

  • Developed page templates and components, taking performance and accessibility into account (using Lighthouse and Google Page Speed Insights)

  • handled CMS content modeling for large, composable websites (Contentful, Contentstack)

• Tech Lead (3+ years):

  • Participated in initial discovery and planning for a new project, as well as provided development insights to help in the drafting of various SOWs

  • Helped contribute to site architectures for projects using site generators (Next, Gatsby)

  • contributed to mobile-responsive, React-based component libraries. Including the same responsibilitiesI had as a senior developer around Storybook documentation, as well as a11y compliance and performance (TypeScript, JSX, ES6, CSS, SCSS, Tailwind)

  • CMS content modeling, as well as configuring instant preview and webhooks (Contentful, Contentstack)

  • Built out implementations for internationalized content across many sites and regions (40 sites and 60+ locales on one project)

  • Built out site search implementations (Using Algolia, as well as from scratch, hitting in-house APIs)

  • Implemented solutions for experimentation and personalization (Uniform, 9tailed)

  • Set up development workflows in code repositories (GitHub, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket)

  • Configuring project deployments using cloud services (Vercel, Netlify)

  • Wrote migration scripts for scraping old sites and transforming that data to be processed by a new CMS (Node.js)

  • Wrote automated unit tests for page templates and components (Jest)

  • Conducted interviews for new developers to help build out a development team

  • Managed mid-sized development teams (5 – 10 developers). This included documenting and assigning tasks, reviewing code, onboarding new developers, and regularly touching base with developers to ensure they are on the right track

  • Built out POCs and complex architectural features to demo to clients

  • Documented project features and architecture for future developers

  • Lead knowledge transfer sessions with client engineers post-go-live to ensure future success

  • Worked in an agile, remote environment with team members spanning across many different time zones and cultural backgrounds

• Develop WordPress sites from scratch using a provided mockup. The bulk of my development on these sites was with standard front-end technologies like SCSS, HTML, and JavaScript.

• Explore and create proof of concepts for future JAMstack site implementations using React.

• Developed many of the available themes in the app using Nunjucks for theme templating.

• Gained experience creating schemas and abstracting data from a content management service like Forestry or Contentful and building pages from that data using static site generators.

• Participated in the first effort to rebuild the marketing site so that it could be managed using the app. In this effort I gained hands on experience developing with the Gatsby static site generator.

• Tested and maintained the available themes for the supported SSGs (Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll). This included updating the existing themes when a new static site generator or content management service was supported.

• Gained experience launching sites and managing site versions using Netlify.