Chase Spencer
Software Developer
About Me
I'm Chase, a full-stack developer with 6+ years of fortune 500 development experience based in Columbus, Ohio.
I am a caffeine-driven developer interested in designing and implementing software that solves complex and often times ambiguous business problems. I'm a team player with experience leading and training product teams.
Seeking opportunities that provide exposure to unique and interesting business problems that I can help solve using modern solutions.
Skills
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science
Graduated: 2018
Experience
Feb 2016 - Jan 2017
Wright State University
Full-Stack Developer / Content Manager
- Supported a web application that is used to provide online classes to students internationally
- 30+ engineering and computer science classes on average that are offered through the app
- Used by 2000+ students that generates tuition for the University
- Developed the application using Django, Django REST Framework, AngularJS and various other small frameworks
- Managed content for the Engineering and Computer Science Department using Drupal
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
OmniSpear Inc.
Web Development Intern
- Supported clients by providing website and web application support
- Supported Drupal 6 and 7 websites
- Provided Drupal training
- Supported WordPress websites
- Provided Database Administration
- Implemented Google Analytics
- Implemented features and enhancements using Laravel
- Implemented features and enhancements using AngularJS, JavaScript and JQuery
May 2015 - Sep 2017
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
eBusiness Intern
- Developed 3 web applications used to improve critical business processes
- Provided Project Management using Agile Methodology
- Lead Project Advisory Board and Executive Steering Committee meetings
- Designed/Developed RESTful APIs for applications using Google App Engine in Python
- Documented the APIs fully using RAML
- Developed full features using AngularJS, Angular 4 and various other front-end frameworks
- Developed and provided quality assurance for all branded sites
- Provided Full-Stack support in Drupal 8 to satisfy business needs
Oct 2017 - Sept 2018
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
eBusiness Software Engineer
- Supported 13 branded sites using Drupal 8 Examples: Scotts.com, Miraclegro.com, Roundup.com, Ortho.com
- Supported 10 branded stores using Magento Examples: Scottsprogram.com, Mygro.com, Scottsdirect.com
- Developed a user authentication system that utilized a REST API to improve application performance
- Setup Vagrant environments for local use
- Upgraded AWS systems to ensure security
Sept 2018 - Present
Cardinal Health
Software Engineer
- Supported market.cardinalhealth.com, a medical B2B eCommerce single-page-application (SPA) that provides hundreds of millions in revenue annually
- Provided tested full-stack development using Angular, Spring Boot and AEM
- Implemented OKTA authentication and credentials management integration
- Upgraded the Market app from Angular 2 to Angular 7
- Improved the Market application performance by 80%
- Re-architected Market to be in a Content as a Service (CaaS) model using AEM as the Content Management System (CMS) and implemented the architecture
- Implemented Paymetric credit card integration
- Lead Analytics efforts using Adobe Analytics (Adobe Launch and Adobe DTM)
- Lead content segmentation efforts using Adobe Target
- Architected a Micro-Frontend strategy to utilize Web Components for multiple team integration with the Market SPA
- Implemented production Concourse CI build pipelines
- Created a single page application written in Angular used for unauthenticated traffic
- Provided Angular training to partners
- Provided AEM development and lead a development team to support the corporate website (cardinalhealth.com)
Nov 2020 - June 2021
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
eBusiness Technical Lead
- Implemented an event-based architecture solution for the company's first Super Bowl sweepstakes advertisement (Super Bowl LV) for keepgrowingtoday.com using GCP Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub and Big Query that processed 400k+ submissions
- Led a development team to build the company's enterprise component SDK following component-based architecture using React and Storybook
- Led a development team to build the company's enterprise websites using React and headless APIs
- Worked with UI/UX on creating a themeable component-based design system for the branded sites
- Implemented CMS integrations using a headless CMS (Contentful) with GraphQL
- Provided and improved existing build and deployment pipelines to improve code quality and reliability using Gitlab CI
June 2021 - Present
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
eBusiness Senior Engineer
- Provided eCommerce microservice development using NestJS
- Created an enterprise SDK Monorepo using Lerna for microservice shared modules
- Provided microservice development to support the MyLawn App