Vincent Trivett

• Developed new features and maintained systems supporting customer retention at a direct-to-consumer health supplement delivery startup.
• Spearheaded design and planning of major projects such as the complete revamp of our mobile app.
• Built back end APIs servicing both mobile app and web.
• Proactively pushed for tech debt cleanup and refactoring, identified and deleted a lot of dead code.
• Leveraged database views and caching to improve performance.
• Found and addressed customer-facing accessibility issues.
• Integrated with analytics and other third party services.
• Fashioned a homespun first party analytics service using Kinesis, S3, and Redshift.
• Built tools to streamline customer service.
• Promoted to Senior level in Fall 2021. Proud (but not excessively proud apparently) three time recipient of the '#behumble' core value award.

Tools used

Ruby on Rails• NextJS• React• PostgreSQL• Redis• RSpec• Styled Components• GraphQL• Sidekiq• Grape• JSON:API• Terraform• Heroku• AWS

• Created customer-facing and back office software on a small fast paced team for a life insurance startup.
• Worked in a cutting edge serverless stack with no back end framework.
• Participated in the company-wide migration to TypeScript.
• Spearheaded projects focused on performance optimization, automation of manual tasks, and UX improvements.
• Collaborated closely with customer service to triage, debug, and eventually prevent bugs in production.

Tools used

TypeScript• Node.js• AWS Lambda• Dynamo DB• Jest• React• Redux• Gatsby

• Delivered full stack features for the Local Guides web application, a program that encouraged users to add and update content in Google Maps.
• Created data visualization features for users to see how their contributions stack up.
• Worked on an internal tool automatically generating natural language for describing places on Maps based on metadata.

Tools used

AngularJS• Angular 2• D3.js• JavaScript• Python• Google Cloud Platform• Piper

• Led all aspects of full-stack development and design for a small startup providing international accommodation for students.
• Made high-level decisions on product direction as lead (sole) developer.
• Interviewed, hired, and mentored a junior developer.
• Instituted agile practices and continuous integration to streamline and organize development processes.

Tools used

Ruby on Rails• AngularJS• PostgreSQL• JavaScript

• Developed curriculum and taught night classes on back end web development for students with various programming backgrounds.
• Held weekly mentoring sessions teaching Web Development Immersive graduates more advanced topics.
• Helped students with personal projects and interview preparation.
• Taught two day Programming for Non Programmers workshops which took users from their first line of HTML to building interactive data-driven applications with JavaScript.

• Built and deployed services such as college applications, marketing sites, and learning management systems for major U.S. universities' online graduate degree offerings.
• Worked with a complex tangle of new and mature microservices built by siloed teams using various frameworks and languages.
• Practiced agile methodologies in a deadline-driven environment.

Tools used

Python• Salesforce• Flask• AngularJS• Jenkins• MongoDB• JavaScript• Node.js

• Helped start a company in Yokohama, Japan where I wrote, conducted interviews, translated, took photos, edited, and sold ads for several arts and culture magazines.
• My work has also appeared in Quartz, Business Insider, City Limits, Skift, WNYC, and other outlets. Translated Japanese news for Nippon TV.

Education