Hi, I am Josh Klein

Web Architect

ABOUT ME

WHO I AM
Josh Klein

Josh Klein

Web Architect Developer from Charlotte, North Carolina

Seasoned Full Stack Web Developer with a proven record of delivering innovative solutions across diverse industries and project scopes. Skilled in architecting scalable applications, building dynamic user interfaces, and seamlessly integrating advanced technologies—including AI-driven tools.

I actively leverage AI to accelerate my own learning and enhance business workflows, boosting both employee productivity and task efficiency. Adept at leading teams, collaborating with stakeholders, and optimizing processes for maximum impact.

Proficient across both front-end and back-end stacks, including jQuery, Laravel, and Livewire. Known for streamlining operations, elevating user engagement, and crafting responsive, intuitive designs.

A results-oriented professional with a passion for staying ahead of evolving technologies and solving complex challenges.

 

Work Experience

PAST, AND PRESENT WORK
Current July, 2024

Telesource

Senior Technical Lead
  • Maintained and enhanced legacy internal and external PHP applications by debugging issues and implementing new features to improve system functionality.
  • Resolved critical interface bugs by debugging jQuery in legacy PHP systems, enabling employees to efficiently perform tasks.
  • Performed minor AWS optimizations and configuration adjustments for production containers to ensure seamless application performance.
  • Initiated a Laravel 11 installation from scratch to migrate and develop new features from the legacy system, ensuring a more maintainable and manageable codebase.
  • Recreated a legacy script in Laravel 11 with advanced features, leveraging the ChatGPT API to parse and process PDF documents.
  • Designed and architected a new application using Laravel 11 and Livewire, enhancing user interface layouts and improving system usability.
  • Developed a user-friendly GUI in Laravel 11 for employees to generate reports, utilizing Laravel's queue system for processing large SQL datasets and generating Excel files, with browser notifications via Livewire 3 for completion alerts.
  • Implemented Bootstrap to create a cohesive and clean interface, maintaining visual consistency between the legacy and new systems for a streamlined user experience.
  • Designed and implemented a mobile-friendly custom check-in/out feature, enabling remote vendor technicians to log job times seamlessly. Integrated the system with internal time management software for real-time tracking and streamlined workforce management.
  • Designed and implemented an automated PHP/Laravel process that extracts and parses carrier invoice text using AI and regex, transforming the data into structured JSON for seamless MySQL import and analysis.
July, 2024 November, 2020

Rhino Lights LLC

Senior Technical Lead
  • Orchestrated the integration of jQuery logging, enhancing user behavior tracking across the ecommerce platform, leading to data that allowed us to improve user engagement.
  • Successfully integrated Livewire into an internal dashboard using laravel, providing real-time insights into customer activity and paving the way for data-driven decision-making.
  • implemented AJAX queries with jQuery to log shopping cart activity, contributing to reduction in cart abandonment rates.
  • Ensured a mobile-responsive design, addressing the needs of over our mobile-based website traffic and boosting mobile user satisfaction.
  • Designed and developed an intuitive eCommerce platform using laravel for critical features such as order tracking, order history, forgot password, registration, repair request.
  • Engineered the repair request feature into our laravel eCommerce system, allowing users to effortlessly track the status of their repair requests during its lifecycle.
  • Automated follow-up emails through CRON jobs, enhancing customer engagement by sending timely post-purchase communications.
  • Crafted custom email templates using bootstrap email for various notifications including order confirmations, repair requests, and shipping notifications, leading to consistent and branded customer interactions.
  • Currently developing an internal app to a streamlined phone-based order creation, demonstrating a commitment to enhancing customer service and order management efficiency.
  • Successfully integrated with the Shippo API for dynamic shipping label creation, and integrated PushOver API to instantly notify phones of new orders.
  • Developed the foundation for C firmware for embedded prototype controller boards, facilitating the development of innovative hardware solutions.
  • Prototyped a Bluetooth app to control lighting systems, enabling command transmission and Bluetooth detection for enhanced control and user experience.
  • Designed and implemented a dedicated Dell PowerEdge C6400 server infrastructure.
  • Utilized Proxmox as the virtualization platform to manage headless Ubuntu Server virtual machines.
  • Employed Docker containers within the virtual environments to facilitate the deployment of Laravel installations.
  • Leveraged the PowerEdge C6400's architecture featuring four sleds to ensure redundant production environments.
  • Established a staging server that mirrored the production setup for rigorous testing before deployment.
November, 2020 October, 2013

Tiaa

Technical Lead
  • Led a high-performing development team in delivering tailored prototype sales demos, effectively showcasing our solutions to potential clients and contributing to increase in conversion rates.
  • Collaborated closely with sales leads to devise strategic plans for creating customized sales demo solutions, resulting in an improvement in sales pitch effectiveness.
  • Fostered strong partnerships with IT counterparts to provide infrastructure solutions aligned with our internal applications, ensuring seamless functionality and reduction in downtime.
  • Spearheaded the adoption of Kohana, a PHP framework, to build tools supporting our proprietary application. Successfully migrated to Laravel, evolving the solution to meet business requirements and faster performance.
  • Conducted in-depth consultations with project managers and business teams to gather project nuances, enabling the development of tailored solutions that met more business needs.
  • Mitigated project risks by identifying potential component system gaps and collaborating with partners to address shortcomings, leading to reduction in project delays.
  • Implemented GIT as the subversion system to efficiently manage the framework's code base, enabling streamlined collaboration and faster code reviews.
  • Utilized Laravel to create internal admin tools, streamlining project deployment, sharing, and management. Improved team efficiency, resulting in faster project turnaround.
  • Orchestrated the development of a bespoke Laravel and Vue.js admin system, allowing team members to manage internal data and prototype creation for business projects. Increased team autonomy and productivity by.
  • Engineered a one-off Laravel admin solution integrated with the company's single sign-on (SSO) system, ensuring a seamless user experience and quicker access to application features.
  • Facilitated collaboration with offshore teams, successfully transitioning prototypes for development, contributing to faster project scaling.
October, 2013 April, 2013

Duke Energy

Front End Developer
  • Spearheaded the creation of custom jQuery plugins, tailoring features to specific project requirements and enhancing overall interactivity.
  • Translated design concepts into hand-coded HTML layouts, achieving consistent design fidelity and minimizing rendering inconsistencies.
  • Crafted mobile-friendly HTML markup with responsive interfaces, ensuring optimal user experience across various devices and screen sizes.
  • Leveraged GitHub for version control, streamlining collaborative development efforts and ensuring codebase integrity.
  • Analyzed and refactored anonymous functions within legacy code, transforming them into versatile plugins for improved code maintainability and reusability.
  • Conducted comprehensive code reviews, identifying opportunities for codebase optimization and refactoring to enhance performance.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with project goals, design specifications, and user experience standards.
  • Dedicated time to evaluate and refactor legacy code, resulting in a reduction in load times and improved website performance.
April, 2013 February, 2013

The Idea People

Developer
  • Collaborated on the completion and enhancement of a custom PHP Laravel web application for the healthcare sector
  • Led backend development tasks, ensuring reliable and efficient application functionality
  • Implemented responsive form layouts on the frontend using Bootstrap
  • Developed dynamic AJAX features with jQuery to enable real-time updates and seamless user interactions
  • Engineered solutions for adding and validating user comments, updating comment counts, and preventing spam through IP checks
  • Utilized GitHub for version control, maintaining code quality and streamlined collaboration throughout the project
January, 2013 January, 2012

Lowe's Home Improvement

Front End Developer
  • Crafted customized jQuery solutions that enriched user experience, resulting in faster load times and increasing in user engagement.
  • Led jQuery testing efforts utilizing QUnit, ensuring robust and error-free functionality across client projects, resulting in enhanced product quality.
  • Collaborated within an Agile team, dynamically allocating resources to feature-based projects and tasks, driving faster project completion rates.
  • Designed and implemented bespoke prototypes using semantic jQuery, HTML, and CSS, consistently delivering improvement in design aesthetics and user interaction.
  • Engineered AJAX and JSON integrations within a JAVA environment, elevating data exchange efficiency and enhancing user interactivity.
  • Successfully leveraged Charles Proxy to streamline server-side functionality testing, reducing debugging time and expediting feature deployment.
  • Utilized TeamSite for seamless deployment of code changes to corresponding servers, ensuring smooth transition of enhancements to production environments.
  • Integrated jQuery with Adobe Test and Target (T&T) for running campaigns and targeted tests, driving improvement in user engagement and increase in conversion rates.
  • Managed version control using GitHub, maintaining more streamlined and organized repository management.
December, 2011 March, 2010

E-dreamz, Inc.

Developer
  • Use Photoshop and Visual Studio to prototype. NET projects, includes but not limited to ColdFusion and PHP and prototypes. This includes basic jQuery setup and organization of jQuery Plugins
  • Built websites using JQuery that had full page scrolling
  • Used jQuery to log user locations to have the ability to link directly to pages that used the full page scrolling. Implemented AJAX based page loading as requested by user
  • Created cookies for tab systems to allow a global logging system on location of the tabs
  • Create HTML5 and CSS3 frontend websites using boilerplate and bootstrap as a foundation
  • Focus extensively on cross-browser rendering, including tablet (Android/iPad) and mobile devices
  • Used YSlow to optimize and streamline websites, ensuring fast load times. This includes maintenance on older websites which includes JavaScript
March, 2010 June, 2009

Bitflip Technology

Developer
  • Developed a custom AJAX-based PHP Content Management System (CMS) from scratch using the CodeIgniter MVC framework
  • Architected a centralized server solution supporting multiple client websites via dynamic database connections based on incoming URLs
  • Enabled a single codebase and file system for all clients, significantly streamlining updates and maintenance
  • Customized front-end templates by hand-coding all jQuery, HTML5, and CSS to precisely match provided Photoshop designs
  • Ensured cross-browser compatibility and consistent user experience across all client sites
May, 2009 August, 2008

Knowmad Technology

Developer
  • Developed and maintained customer websites using WebGUI, a Perl-based content management system
  • Engineered custom Perl addons and extensions, leveraging the WebGUI API to enhance and expand core platform functionality
  • Practiced test-driven development to ensure reliability and maintainability of new features
  • Designed and implemented XHTML and CSS prototypes within the WebGUI CMS to deliver responsive and visually consistent layouts
  • Assisted in the management, configuration, and setup of Linux-based servers to support robust hosting environments for clients
  • Created and maintained custom jQuery plugins for WebGUI, as well as for external platforms such as phpBB and vBulletin, improving site interactivity and client satisfaction
September, 2006 March, 2005

Tathwell Printing

Developer
  • Designed and developed a PHP-based calendar website enabling customers to sign up, create, and manage personalized production calendars
  • Implemented features for users to upload photos, add events, and leave comments, enhancing user engagement and functionality
  • Built intuitive AJAX-driven user interfaces with JavaScript for seamless, real-time interactions
  • Hand-coded XHTML and CSS markups to ensure responsive, cross-browser layouts
  • Integrated the platform with XmPie to enable web-to-Indigo dynamic printing, supporting advanced print customization for users

Contact Me

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Charlotte, North Carolina

704-779-4239

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www.joshkle.in