Brian Seitel
Web Application Developer
About Me
Technologies
- PHP 4 & 5
- MySQL databases
- Javascript/AJAX & jQuery
- XHTML / HTML5
- CSS2 & CSS3
- Photoshop, Fireworks
- Subversion, Git, Github
- Facebook Integration (API, widgets)
- Twitter Integration (API, widgets)
- Other 3rd party API Integration
- LAMP stack environment
Experience
San Francisco, CA
April 2011 to present
Lead developer responsible for design implementation for all client work. Responsible for quality assurance, client satisfaction and clean code. Other duties and accomplishments include:
- Google-like search for apartments
- Building and maintaining central fraud service across all Zillow rental services
- Significant destruction of bugs and minor irritations in code structure
- Automated data import tools
- Mentoring noobish developers and learning from advanced gurus
Atlanta, Georgia
November 2009 - April 2011
Lead developer responsible for design implementation for all client work. Responsible for quality assurance, client satisfaction and clean code. Other duties and accomplishments include:
Successful projects include:
- Fulton County Republican Party (www.fultongop.org)
- Frankly Speaking Music (www.franklyspeakingmusic.com)
- Cosmic Deli (www.thecosmicdeli.com)
- Custom Object Oriented PHP-based Content Management System (CMS)
- Event management systems for political and entertainment organizations
- iPhone/Android applications using Appcelerator Titanium framework
- Work closely with designer to create positive and engaging User Experiences
- Integrate Twitter, Facebook and other social media
Chicago, Illinois
August 2008 - March 2009
Served as front-end developer responsible for designing, maintaining and updating front-end user interface. As part of an Agile development team, worked in iterations of 2 weeks to implement new features on a regular basis. Accomplishments include:
- Overhaul of entire front-end user interface in four weeks
- Upgrade from table-based layouts to semantic, valid HTML
- Created drop-down search tools to improve accessibility
- Integrated various 3rd party APIs
- Played a key role in forming direction of web app growth
Sandy Springs, GA
April 2008 - August 2008
Served as web developer. Helped build numerous websites for local businesses, including restaurants, insulation resellers, and game studios.
Education
Master of Science
Secondary Education
Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville, AL 2007
Bachelor of Arts
Theatre Arts
Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville, AL 2004
Notable Sites I've Built
Endorsements
Jack Angers
Senior Software Engineer - RentJuice/Zillow
He's a pragmatic full-stack engineer that just Gets Stuff Done. On numerous occasions I witnessed him take big time-sensitive feature requests and get them done ahead of schedule. Brian also has writing, presenting, and customer-service skills that are extremely rare for an engineer. I would jump at the chance to work with him again.
Missy Roode
Project Manager - Anthem
Brian is insanely fast. [...] Brian is a massively valuable developer for any team. Since he also mixes professionalism with a goofy sense of humor, he's a great person to have around when projects get stressful.
Shawn Borsky
CEO - Anthem
...The amount of productivity he adds to a development team is simply staggering. [...] I highly recommend Brian's development work and I would trust him on any development project. He is fun to talk with to boot.
Ivan Alfaro
Web Developer - Turner Sports
Brian gets it [...] he asks the right questions, knows the web standards, and doesn't procrastinate.
Igor Stoyanov
Senior Developer - FirstDIBZ
Brian's knowledge of web development and design best practices never ceased to amaze me. He always takes an initiative to experiment with new business models or technologies in order to accomplish a given business goal. [...] At the same time Brian is self-motivated and well-organized problem solver that approach problems and issue in very logical and systematic manner.