Joshua Draxten

Front End Developer

📧 joshuadraxten@live.com 🔗 joshuadraxten.com 💻 github.com/drax10

How Can I Be Useful to You?

  • 🧠   Extensive experience building/maintaining Wordpress Websites, Themes and Plugins
  • 📣   Experience working closely with marketers and non-technical team members
  • 🛹   I attack every problem as a UX problem and I'm not afraid to whip out Sketch/Figma
  • 🌎   5 years experience working fully remotely
  • ⚡️   Love of cutting edge technologies like JAMStack
  • 🤓   Expert in React.js, Javascript, CSS, HTML5 and PHP

Experience

👨‍💻 Front End Developer - Freelance

Mar 2020 - Present

Since going freelance, I've focused on honing my Front End Development skills

  • Building & Designing Bespoke Websites (Jekyll, Shopify and Wordpress)
  • Building SaaS Apps (AWS, Node.js, React)
  • Data scraping scripts (Python)
  • Machine learning for a real estate start-up (Python and PostgreSQL)
  • Work on Technical SEO optimization.

🦊 Web Developer - Genoo LLC

Sep 2015 - Mar 2020

Genoo is half Marketing Agency half SaaS. I was initially hired to build basic HTML templates, I was promoted within two months to the dev team after I built a tool to automate the template building process. In my nearly 5 years on the dev team there I accomplished:

  • Design and build new UIs for building Emails, landing pages and more
  • Maintaining and extending functionality to the Java Server Pages and PHP Back End
  • Maintain the health and consistent function of our Linux Email servers
  • Create and maintain our WordPress Plugins and Themes
  • Design and build WordPress websites for our clients.
  • Create novel marketing tactics that converted 28% better than traditional methods in A/B tests

 

 

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