Web Development Frontend Developer

DANNY KULAS

Detroit, MI Senior Frontend Developer dannykulas.com

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SUMMARY

With over a decade of experience in web development, I have a proven track record of creating visually stunning and highly functional user interfaces. Over the past eight years I have honed my skills in e-commerce and frontend web development, particularly on the Magento platform (now Adobe Commerce), where I have consistently delivered solutions that drive engagement and business growth. I am passionate about web development and delivering innovative and impactful results.

EXPERIENCE (10 years)

Company: Turning Point Brands, Inc. (Louisville, KY) – Senior Frontend Developer December ’23 – July ’24 (Recommendation available upon request) Project(s): B2B and B2C Magento 2 websites

• Enterprise websites selling apparel, accessories and alternative smoking and smoke- less products

• Gained valuable experience helping manage an external development team and ensuring high-quality and on-time deliverables

• Worked mainly with Tailwind (CSS), HTML, JS, PHP and XML

• Tasks included increasing site-speed, implementing site-redesigns, extending PageBuilder components, auditing modules for updates and removals, leading website-walks to obtain and act on feedback, running staging deployments

• Leveraged Magento 2 functionality such as cart price rules, PageBuilder and widgets

• Developed processes for obtaining and implementing QA

• Worked with several teams and business stakeholders to understand and deliver on their needs

Company: Bedrock Manufacturing (Detroit, MI) – Web Developer September ‘17 – December ‘23

Project(s): Shinola.com, Filson.com

• Enterprise websites selling luxury goods

• Worked primarily on the frontend, interacting with Knockout, HTML, JS, PHP and XML

• Tasks included developing landing pages, implementing site-redesigns, extending PageBuilder components with our own custom ones

• Helped lead and manage ADA compliance.

• Updated modules, created custom ones and have developed backend admin features to empower non-technical team members to make changes to the sites

• Helped develop processes for QA and reviewing pull-requests

• Helped lead Conversion-Rate Optimization discussions

• Worked heavily on performance and speed initiatives Company: Cogent IBS (Franklin, MI) – Web Developer March ’15 - September ‘17

Project: Coobo

• An enterprise web application that has features such as newsfeed, employee profiles and social feeds and customized reports

• Developed the user interface using several front-end technologies

• Conducted in-depth user and performance testing

• Participated in weekly meetings reviewing project scope, addressing new concerns and providing feedback and brain-storming new ideas and solutions Project: ManaBadi Event Registration

• A website for users to sign-up for an event and receive an email confirmation with a Php-generated QR code with their registration details

• Developed the back-end email and QR code generator by using Php and Postgresql

• Conducted tests to ensure the integrity of the web-form as well as the database architecture by setting up a test database where I could interact with data and see activity in real-time

• Led weekly meetings to ensure the project was meeting it’s goals, staying on track and dealing with issues as they arose

EDUCATION

General Assembly (Washington, D.C.) November -14 – February -15 Studied full-stack web development and learned various front-end and back-end technologies, data persistence, deployments and git Michigan State University September 07 – May 11

Earned a BA degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a major in Environmental Policy and a minor in Anthropology. While attending MSU I started my own clothing company which taught me a lot about running my own company, how to use Photoshop and work in unfamiliar situations

SKILLS

Tools: Jira, BitBucket, Github, Confluence, CLI, Git, Figma, XD, Photoshop, MySQL Workbench, Docker, Agile, Sublime Text, phpStorm, HotJar, Product management Frontend: HTML (Responsive, Accessibility, Cross-Browser), CSS (Sass, Less, Tailwind, Grunt), JavaScript, jQuery

Backend/Server: Php, Ruby, SQL (mysql, psql)

Platforms & Frameworks: Magento (Adobe Commerce), Ruby on Rails, AWS (Route53, Cloudfront and S3 for personal website), Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager

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