Garrett Allen
Full Stack Software Engineer
About Me
I'm a friendly, dedicated, team-oriented developer who uses web technologies to tackle challenges and deliver outstanding features and products.
Experience
- Current Role
- Application developer at Dev Technology Group
- I use React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, Docker and other web technologies to build features for public websites, maintain and update legacy codebases, and deliver impressive internal tools.
- Top accomplishments
- Developed internal tool reducing publishing time by 20%
- Built flexible, reusable image and video gallery components
- Led frontend redesign including accessibility and responsiveness
- Freelance work as Sound Software
- Designed, developed and tested API for booking reservations
- Maintained and built out features for news media application
- Migrated and updated taxonomy vocubulary for tagging articles
- Hobby Projects
- I built Sangha House LA using React, Node, Next, Vercel, and Sanity.
- I built Climate Cooldown Cards, a learning module for a friend's climate change fighting boardgame, Climate Cooldown, using HTML, CSS, and Drupal.
- I volunteer as a developer with HeyClimate, building a platform for connecting environmentalists by publishing a weekly curated list of climate events in your city. Beginning in Los Angeles, we are in the process of scaling the app to serve the environmental activists in cities across the US.
- Open Source
- I worked on Docketeer, an extension and data visulizer for Docker built with React/Redux in TypeScript with a Node.js backend. I built a D3 graph, and was responsible for implementing networking functionality. Check out the GitHub respository.
- I am an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
- In my freetime, I enjoy chess, swimming, and birdwatching.
Resume
View my resume here.