Drew Mendenhall

Front-End Engineer & Front-End Team Lead

• Contribute with medium-size engineering organization to build a real-time web app used by many of the largest insurance companies and car manufacturers in the US.
• Gather consensus on Best Practices surrounding GraphQL schema design, testing methodology, and code design via linter rules and design patterns. Mentor teammates on Best Practices and share learnings.
• Plan and drive GraphQL migration projects, each of which reduced websocket message bandwidth usage by up to 15-30%.
• Manage production rollout of both experimental features and risky migrations.
• Introduced TypeScript with migration path from JavaScript and CoffeeScript.

CTO & Co-Founder

• Designed, architected, and developed a mobile web application using React, Redux, and GraphQL.
• Implement the same feature set and RFID via Bluetooth on iOS and Android using React Native.
• Maintain a deployment pipeline with one QA environment per git branch via Terraform, GitLab, and Docker.

Software Developer

• Maintained large Angular application that keeps track of customers, inventory, and shipments.
• Migrate - one page at a time - to a more responsive and reliable version built on nodejs, GraphQL, React, and Redux.
• Administered linux servers and deployment pipeline on Docker and nginx.
• Maintained public web site and built integration with Docusign for new customer applications.

Software Developer

• Helped build a new Web UI, powered by React and Backbone, for a full-featured donor management system. This replaced a WPF/C# desktop application.
• Advocated ES5, ES6, and idiomatic javascript on a daily basis. Pushed migration to babeljs transpiler.
• Introduced LESS architecture to bring structure to the way pages and components are styled.
• Streamlined front-end dev workflow with a build system based on npm scripts and webpack dev server with live-reloading styles and components.

Front End UI Developer

• Constructed a one-stop web application for accountants as a composition of AngularJS modules. Front-end built using Grunt.
• Architected a library of basic, reusable HTML snippets, backed by LESS styling, which follow visual design specifications, pixel-for-pixel.
• Worked as part of a medium-size team following Agile practices.

Web Developer

• Took ownership of the engine that runs a family of public-facing e-commerce web sites.
• Cleaned up the code to leverage built-in ASP.NET MVC functions (e.g. router, Razor view engine).
• Aggressive cache policies cache both the results of common database queries as well as the rendered HTML output of common pieces of web pages. These caches are cleared and re-filled nightly.
• Converted monolithic CSS and Javascript to re-usable modules that progressively enhance the user’s experience and gracefully degrade in non- modern browsers.
• Handwrote SVG for a logo and integrated into site in a way that allows color customization for spinning off new retail domains. This SVG is then used to generate favicons.
• Implemented a responsive, yet powerful search engine which searches across hundreds of thousands of products and specs to provide results ranked by relevance. Autocomplete acts as a quick product number look-up.

Web Application Developer

• Designed and developed system that enables swift and reliable creation and management of surveys for CFS’s clients. Major clients include Air France and Vanguard Health Systems.
• Three single-page applications use knockout.js with object-oriented models to provide a rich user interface and real-time, accurate representation of data.
• Requests are sent to RESTful API, using ASP.NET Web API.
• Implemented ASP.NET Forms Security with custom Membership and Role Providers, and a self-architected claims-based system, which control users’ access to surveys.
• Administered FTP Secure site in IIS with user-isolated folders.

Junior Software Developer

• Worked with a team to debug and add enhancements to Business IT Web Applications.
• Designed, implemented, and maintained time-tracking and inventory-tracking web apps.
• Utilized Ajax/JSON to minimize bandwidth usage and provide a responsive UI.

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering