Kawaun Harvey

Lead Senior UI Developer

Cognizant•  June 2021 - Present

Provided consultation to a high-traffic commerce company on the integration and customization of a third-party chat. Led an on-shore and off-shore development team across different time-zones Leveraged git tools to assess code, maintain code quality, and implement clean deployment practices. Deployed content to staging and production via tools such as Zeus and Tealium. Collaborated with account teams, project managers, and QE teams to ensure business goals are met.

Senior Developer, Technical Lead

Area 23 HC•  June 2018 - June 2021

Built and deployed front-end stacks using Docker multistage builds on an Azure pipeline. Deployed Node.js environment-ready servers using express, leveraging PM2 for load balancing and server management. Experienced in koa and fastfiy. Built and deployed multiple API's with notable features such as screen capture using puppeteer, email automation using third-party API's such as Mailgun or SendGrid, and large data management of client databases and vendor API integrations. Created a custom Strapi plugin and provider that uploads images as Buffer data into a MySQL database and returns them to the server as an image. Experienced in Node js SQL ORM’s such as knex, sequalize, etc. Managed several databases with big and small data—MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc.

Marketing Web Developer

Complex•  January 2015 - June 2018

Maintenance and support for blog websites for clients leveraging the WordPress platform. Designed and developed first-to-market display ad products for client brands. Technical advisor to 100+ publisher's websites, providing support and quality assurance of rich media products provided in the network. Developed a tool to register and catalog network partners into a wider publisher’s database.