Chris Baker
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Chris Baker

Chris Baker

Frontend, Fullstack Developer


Background


About

About

Frontend Software Developer with 3+ years working with frontend technologies, 2 years professional consulting experience and continued demonstration of fullstack abilities. Looking for opportunities on exciting projects with a focus on personal growth and notable contributions.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Frontend Developer ConsultantThrive

    Oct, 2021 - Present

    Work with clients to conceptualize, design, implement, and maintain applications in the Microsoft Teams and SharePoint environments.

    • Designed, programmed, and delivered inventory tracking application, leveraging SharePoint APIs and a React + Fluent UI frontend

    • Maintain and update Objective-Key-Result custom collaborative application in quarterly sprint based iterations, utilizing a Nest JS backend and React / Fluent UI Northstar frontend, deployed to Microsoft Teams platform

    • Regularly designing and publishing custom SharePoint webparts created using React and UI libraries

  • Software Developer, ITCyient

    Mar, 2020 - May, 20211 year 2 months

    • Met with clients to discuss business needs and to clarify SOW requirements and expectations. Addressed action items and impediments from inception to execution

    • Created, enhanced, and maintained various SharePoint based applications used for engineering, research, testing and their related files

    • Employed frontend knowledge and Nintex Workflows to design dynamic sites and real-time dashboards within SharePoint

    • Created solutions used to automate invoice reporting and notifications

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • Beer Near, Personal

    Jun, 2021 - Jul, 20211 month

    A personal project which uses Open Brewery API and Google Maps API to find a list of twenty breweries nearest to the user. The results are displayed individually, sorted by distance. As the user iterates through options, Beer Near manages state and lifecycle through hooks.

  • Skriftr, Personal

    Dec, 2020 - Jun, 20215 months

    A personal project to journal the process of learning a new technology or skill. Users sign up through email, then log journal entries along with a “confidence” level, resulting in a record of growth that contextualizes long term accomplishments. Skriftr uses Express server side rendering, MongoDB storage, EJS templating, D3 data visualization, and Bootstrap framework.

  • Chicken Tracker, Education

    Sep, 2018 - Nov, 20182 months

    In tandem with the Psychology Department at Augustana College, designed, tested, and delivered a Java desktop program which tracks experiment subjects (chickens) on screen from a video in order to measure response to stimulation. After uploading a video in the form of an .mp4, the app automatically tracked chickens, and then users corrected errors by following movement frame-by-frame. Data was saved in JSON for persistence, and would be exported in Comma Separated Values for analysis.

Skills

Skills

  • Frontend Development

    HTML5

    CSS3

    React

    Fluent UI / React Northstar

    Bootstrap

  • Backend Development

    Node

    Express JS

    APIs

    MongoDB

    Mongoose

  • Tools/Languages

    JavaScript

    TypeScript

    VSCode

    npm

    GitHub

    Postman

    Figma

    Microsoft Teams

    Microsoft SharePoint

Education

Education

  • Engineering Physics, Bachelor, Augustana College

    Sep, 2015 - May, 2019

    Computer Architecture

    Introduction to Computer Science

    Software Development