Ikenna Igwe

Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Computer Information Systems

Owner / Full Stack Developer

I‘ve been developing websites for clients going all the way back to my teenage years. I‘m currently focused on personal projects but have developed web sites and applications for small to medium sized businesses.

Senior Software Engineer

Initial and ongoing front-end development for the recent launch of next gen web3 focused music platform Gala Music

• Utilized Vue 3, Nuxt 3, CSS3, JavaScript, TypeScript, Tailwind, and other technology.

Collaborate with UX designers via Figma to ensure designs meet product and development expectations.

Collaborate with back-end and block-chain developers to integrate client-side with server-side and block-chain functionality.

Bi-weekly Sprint planning and retrospectives

• Creation of Gitlab tickets and acceptance criteria breakdowns
• Speak candidly about things that went well and various ways to improve things that didn’t.

Take active ownership of codebase by not only development tickets assigned but improving code where possible.

• DRY principles – turning instances of repeated code into useable components.
• Peer code reviews

Weekly meetings with product owners:

• Demo development milestones
• Collaborate with design, product managers and higher-level execs to plan and discuss forward-looking initiatives.

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Senior Web Developer

Developed user interfaces for prominent platforms, including Stamps.com, Endicia.com, and the Stamps Customer Relationship Management internal tool.

• Built and optimized components to streamline processes, reducing repetitive tasks and saving valuable time.
• Created efficient tools for batch processing and seamless integration of discount codes across multiple initiatives.
• Ensured accurate implementation of Google Tag Manager and tracking, conducting rigorous testing to maintain data integrity.

Collaborated closely with designers throughout the entire development lifecycle to achieve pixelperfect design-to-development conversions.

• Ensured design expectations were met, contributing to seamless user experiences and visually compelling interfaces.

Demonstrated leadership by spearheading initiatives to establish superior coding standards and practices:

• Managed junior and offshore developers, conducting code reviews to maintain high-quality code and promote best practices.
• Streamlined developer and code reviewer expectations for optimal collaboration and code consistency.
• Successfully advocated for the implementation of B.E.M. methodology, resulting in reduced CSS specificity and enhanced component updates and naming consistency.

Actively participated in sprint planning, estimation meetings, and tech spec writing, contributing to efficient project execution and delivery.

Frontend Developer

Google Tag Manager & General frontend development for break.com, screenjunkies.com, addictinggames.com, shockwave.com and clevver.com.

Agile Scrum Development Environment

• Creation of user stories for project requirements
• Pointed user stories using Fibonacci
• Participated in peer code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback

Developed custom native WordPress Ads plugin that increased ad viewability rating over 50%

• Monitored ad viewability thresholds before running display code
• Allowed content creators to deploy ads using shortcodes
• Provided custom targeting & tracking parameters for the ad operations team

UI Developer I & II

General frontend development for equator.com corporate site, Equator Agent Store, Agent CRM, Servicer Workstation and mobile app.

Developed UI Coding Standards & Guidelines as well as handled UI Peer Code Reviews.

Developed complex table-based form templates for system-wide use by the UI and ColdFusion teams

Web & Graphic Designer/Developer

Handled complete revamps of PhonePower.com and Voip.com. From concept to completion designed the photoshop mockups and executed the front-end code for both site relaunches.

Design of corporate graphical assets: (Advertising deliverables including animated gif and flash banner ads, flyers and instructional booklet), photoshop mockups for Phone Power Mobile Application (iOS and Android) and developed full Adobe Flash Phone Power instructional installation walkthrough animated video.