Joel Kirchartz

Senior Full–Stack Developer

Experience

Software Engineer

Bentley Systems

Iteratively build new functionality in a 3d Digital Twin SPA web-app, deploy sites to production, mentor Interns.

  • Stack:
  • React
  • Typescript
  • Jest
  • Webpack/Babel
  • HTML5
  • SASS
  • VS Code
  • Git
  • itwinjs
  • graphql
  • Learna
  • Bash
  • OSX
  • Windows
  • WSL

UI Engineer - Analytics and Web Optimization

Contractor at American Eagle Outfitters

Create temporary experiences and A/B tests through Adobe Target. Implement the Notify Me out-of-stock notification system, which generated over 1000 hits on its first day. Make other solutions permanent in the Ember portion of the UI.

  • Stack:
  • Adobe Target
  • Javascript
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Ember
  • GIT
  • OSX

Senior Interactive Developer

Garrison Hughes

Create animated CSS3/HTML5 ads, build and send email campaigns, manage digital videos, and maintain existing responsive WordPress sites.

  • Stack:
  • WordPress
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Animation
  • Grunt
  • Bash
  • Git
  • OSX
  • Clients:
  • UPMC
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • First National Bank
  • and more

Front-End Developer

Contractor at Barkley REI

Create a responsive static frontend, and a complete responsive WordPress site, for 2 different clients in the education sector

  • Stack:
  • WordPress
  • Assemble.io
  • Handlebars
  • Mocha
  • SCSS/BEM
  • Grunt
  • Bower
  • yeoman
  • BASH
  • GIT
  • OSX

Senior Full-Stack Developer

Fireman Creative

Work closely with designers and stakeholders to create fully customized responsive WordPress sites mostly in the medical, non-profit, and real estate sectors. Implement systems, organize projects, and work closely with clients to fulfill their vision. Document processes and produce tutorials for Clients. Mentor junior developers and design team.

  • Stack:
  • WordPress
  • PHP
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript
  • Bootstrap
  • Ansible
  • Roots.io
  • Laravel
  • Composer
  • Grunt
  • Bower
  • Vagrant
  • BASH
  • GIT
  • OSX
  • Clients:
  • UPMC (Curavi)
  • JCC Pittsburgh
  • ISAC Pittsburgh
  • Out & Equal
  • Honey Farms Construction LLC
  • and more

Technical Specialist III

Contractor at Google

Develop and maintain customizable functions to validate, clean, and optimize product data feeds across various shopping engines for a variety of clients and migrate VBScript to JavaScript.

  • Stack:
  • JavaScript
  • VBScript
  • BASH
  • Perforce
  • Goobuntu/Linux
  • Clients:
  • Jet.com
  • Vistaprint
  • Amazon
  • Tesco
  • Neiman Marcus
  • Walmart
  • Cabela's
  • and more

Awards

Steel City Codefest

Winner: Design Category

Team Hyperham worked with The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (PDP) & City of Pittsburgh Department of Public Works (DPW) to create the SmarTrash website and 2 apps to assist in communications between the PDP & DPW to help organize the effort to keep Pittsburgh’s streets clean.

Education

CodeSchool, Codecademy, FreeCodeCamp, SoloLearn

Studied AngularJS, Ember, C#, JavaScript, Ruby/Rails, Python, GIT, Mongo DB, Bootstrap, and more.

B.S. Interactive Multimedia Design

Art Institute of Pittsburgh

Studied Design, Videography, Photography, Philosophy, Psychology, and more. Tutored peers.