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Kirk Douglas Jr

Kirk Douglas Jr

George Town,The Cayman Islands

Summary

Experienced Software and Application Developer passionate about creating cutting-edge products. Boasts a diverse skill set in both front-end and back-end development, focusing on delivering impactful user-end products that move the needle. Strong work ethic and dedicated to quality assurance. Adept at working with teams or independently in fast-paced settings.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer

DubClub
Remote
10.2022 - Current
  • Led a Shared UI Component Library: Spearheaded the creation of a Shared UI component library by integrating best pratices and cutting-edge technologies, accelerating project delivery by expected timeline
  • Developed Revenue-Boosting Products: Engineered key front-end and back-end solutions, directly impacting revenue in company revenue through enhanced user engagement
  • Unblocked product releases: Played a pivotal role in unblocking project delivery challenges, ensuring progression and timely execution of the product roadmap
  • Built Internal Tools for Business Team: Developed innovative internal tools for the business team, reducing testing time leading to speed-to-market
  • Enhanced Product Stability: Ensured product stability and reliability by writiing comprehensive test coverage for new products and older products and comprehensive
  • Experimented with New Tools and Frameworks: Championed the adoption of innovative tools and frameworks such as TailwindCSS, Next.js, and PWA development, driving the forefront of modern web development practices in the company.

Engineer - Software Development III (Senior Engineer)

GoDaddy
The Cayman Islands
04.2022 - 10.2022
  • Improving Legacy Key Product Services: Revitalized legacy key product services for the Corporate Domains platform, enhancing system performance by delivering more up-to-date information frequently, thereby significantly boosting customer reliability and satisfaction
  • Role as Scrum Master: Excelled as Scrum Master, orchestrating project assessments and team organization, effectively aligning with and providing the required transparency to higher-ups in the GoDaddy organizatio
  • Revamp's GoDaddy's Bulk Transfer System: Worked closely as a team to contribute in the front-end redesign of GoDaddy’s Bulk Transfer System
  • Transforming a major customer pain point into a streamlined, user-friendly interface, elevating the the NPS score
  • Maintaining Corporate Domains Platform: Maintained and troubleshooted GoDaddy’s Corporate Domains platform, ensuring rapid resolution for both front-end and backend that impacted end-users.

Engineer - Software Development II (Engineer)

GoDaddy
The Cayman Islands
01.2020 - 03.2022
  • Maintained of the Uniregistry Platform GoDaddy post-acquisition
  • Led front-end and back-end of products targeted to domain investors, resulting in increasing revenue and contributed significally to helping Uniregistry meet targeted earnings
  • Contributed to improvements to GoDaddy's infrasture team that was used by other teams besides the Coperate Domain team (my team)
  • Contributed with migrating services to the cloud, to implement continious development
  • Replaced and integrated GoDaddy internal API services into the uniregistry platform, resulting in a more consistence user experience between platforms
  • Exercised leadership by taking on the role of Scrum Master, organizing team tasks and working closely with Product Manager to plan and help team with execution during Sprints.

Software Developer

Uniregistry Corp
03.2015 - 01.2020
  • Membership Program Development and Sustainable Revenue: Contributed to the development of Uniregistry's Membership program, achieving sustainable revenue for the company, which were instrumental for the acquisition by GoDaddy
  • Leadership in Email and Website Builder Development: Tech lead in the development of the Uniregistry Email and Website Builder service, playing a crucial role in boosting company profits for that year
  • Subscription Management System Innovation: Engineered a versatile subscription management system, enabling the easy rollout of new products
  • This system remains a pivotal asset for it's sister company, GoDaddy Corporate Domains, in billing coperate customers for premium services
  • Product Development for Domain Investors: Led and developed front-end and back-end components of key products targeting domain investors, enhancing platform capabilities and user experience
  • Automation Testing System Implementation: Replacing manual pre-release testing process with E2E automation using Selenium
  • This enhancement led to reduced production issues, decreased testing time, and bolstered confidence in the reliability of deployments.

Intern

Uniregistry Corp
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
  • Custom Report Generation Using SQL: Created custom reports by utilizing SQL to extract and analyze data from the database, providing valuable insights that supported strategic decision-making in the sales department
  • Sales Features: Developed specialized tools for the Domain After Market system (domainnamesales.com) to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the in-house domain sales team, significantly improving their sales operations
  • Maintenance and Bug Fixes: Diligently maintained the Domain After Market system, swiftly identifying and resolving bugs, ensuring system reliability for the sales team.

Education

University college of the Cayman Islands
01.2015

John Gray High School

Skills

  • HTML & CSS
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • React (Typescript)
  • Django
  • Tailwindcss
  • Django Rest Framework
  • Rest API
  • UI frameworks (eg: Bootstrap & Tailwindcss)
  • Jest (w/ User testing library for React)
  • PyTest
  • SQL
  • Code Reviews
  • Testing and Debugging
  • Testing and Deployment
  • Requirements Documentation
  • Team Collaboration
  • Front-End Development
  • Troubleshooting and Resolution
  • Feature and Application Implementation
  • Scrum
  • Test Planning and QA
  • New Employee Mentoring
  • API Development
  • Product Development
  • Project Planning
  • API Design

Languages

English

References

  • Mark Jones, DubClub, +52 998 130 0197
  • Andrew Lysak, GoDaddy, +1 (773) 322-2275
  • David Unick, DubClub, +1 (345) 917-2960
  • Shemar Lindsay, The Cayman Islands Government, +1 (345) 324-2208

Hobbies and Interests

At heart i'm an explorer, and that translates in different ways into my life. When i'm away from my laptop, I've been enjoying exploring parts of Honduras and Belize, two countries i've found to love. But when i'm at my laptop, i'm exploring the next best way to deliver.

Projects

BizHub Chat Bot, The Cayman Islands, 03/01/21, Employed smoke testing techniques for market validation, leading to the project winning 'Project of the Year' at the 2021 Cayman Islands Business Competition., Designed a chatbot API integrated with WhatsApp Business API to facilitate customer-business interactions., Developed features enabling businesses to offer services like mobile car washes and customers to request services directly via WhatsApp, resulting in more swift request to response time., Implemented AWS cloud services, including Step Functions, to manage service request states from initiation to completion. The Activazon Project, 12/01/22, Developed a Progressive Web App (PWA) utilizing AI to analyze news articles for crime reports in specific cities (Right now only in Honduras and Belize)., Front-end built with ReactJS and NextJS, styled with TailwindCSS for a responsive, user-friendly interface., Back-end developed using Python's Django, Django REST Framework, and integrated with GeoDjango, Google Maps, MapBox, and OpenAI APIs for enhanced functionality., Real-time notifications for users subscribed to service., This project helps me test problems I wouldn't be able to in my job while allowing me connect with the community when asking for feedback.

Timeline

Software Engineer

DubClub
10.2022 - Current

Engineer - Software Development III (Senior Engineer)

GoDaddy
04.2022 - 10.2022

Engineer - Software Development II (Engineer)

GoDaddy
01.2020 - 03.2022

Software Developer

Uniregistry Corp
03.2015 - 01.2020

Intern

Uniregistry Corp

University college of the Cayman Islands

John Gray High School

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