Aricin Rotarius

Skills

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaHTMLCSSNode.jsNext.jsReact.jsAWSDjangoFlaskREST APIsSQLGitOOPSEOWeb Vitals

CSwiftVue.jsFastAPIDockerTerraformServerlessGraphQLNoSQLMongoDBPostgreSQLMySQLFirebaseCypressAgileScrumShape Up

Landtrust

Jan 2024 – Present

Remote

Develop programmatic SEO services with Next.js and React, generating 10,000 static pages to drive customer and supply acquisition.
Integrate SEO services with Strapi CMS and Algolia, implementing data caching for efficient build times, and automating deployments with AWS CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, and GitHub Actions.
Lead a performance optimization project resulting in 37% faster load times and 49% faster interaction times.
Enable data-driven performance optimizations by adding web vital instrumentation, ingesting performance metrics into data warehouse, writing advanced SQL queries in Postgres, and creating web vital reports.
Implement RESTful APIs in TypeScript using design patterns and following best practices for data validation and error handling.
Build GraphQL endpoints in AWS AppSync using the Serverless Framework, integrating with DynamoDB.
Add Lighthouse audits to CI/CD pipelines to prevent future performance and accessibility issues.
Collaborate with product manager to shape projects, balancing high-quality user experiences with performance and clean implementation.
Promote continuous improvement by introducing new ideas and initiating engineering discussions.

Squidly, Inc.

Jun 2023 – Dec 2023

Lake Forest Park, WA

Reduced infrastructure costs by 44% by refactoring existing services to a serverless architecture.
Wrote infrastructure as code for AWS API Gateway, Step Functions, and Lambda using the Serverless framework.
Built an OpenAI-integrated chatbot in Python, leveraging augmented prompting and GPT function calling to implement chat logic.
Established websocket chat streaming using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
Built and deployed a Vue.js single-page application via AWS CloudFront.
Implemented OIDC authentication with Auth0, and integrated with MongoDB for storing chat history.
Developed CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions and Docker, incorporating Jest unit and Cypress E2E tests.

Self Employed

Aug 2020 – Present

Remote

Partner with startups and small businesses as a developer/consultant, guiding technical strategy and architecture.
Architect a large-scale static page system serving 100,000+ pages using AWS services (S3, CloudFront, API Gateway), implementing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
Develop automated data pipeline to identify potential clients by targeting web applications with poor web vitals and JavaScript front-end implementations.
Implement technical SEO best practices and consult clients on SEO strategies.

Nov 2024 – Present

PostgreSQL, SQL, Python, MCP

Ingest NFL data from ESPN API into a PostgreSQL datastore for comprehensive analysis.
Develop data loading and transformation scripts in Python to process and clean data.
Write SQL queries to generate fantasy football insights such as schedule adjusted projections and player rankings.
Integrate with Postgres MCP server for enhanced querying.

Jun 2023

Python, Jupyter, OpenAI, Pinecone

Developed a natural language search engine for Amazon products using vector search.
Created OpenAI embeddings of Amazon product descriptions from a HuggingFace dataset.
Wrote data transformation scripts in Python and integrated with Pinecone vector database.

Mar 2023

Swift, UIKit, OpenAI

Designed, developed, and presented an iPad app prototype within a 24-hour time frame for Uncommon Hacks 2023 at the University of Chicago.
Built with Swift, UIKit, and Dall-E 2 for image generation.

Feb 2023 – May 2023

Python, Django, MySQL, Docker

Designed relational database schema in third normal form.
Setup dev environments for teammates by configuring Django-MySQL integration with Docker.
Practiced Agile, Scrum, and XP principles within a team of 6 developers.

Jan 2023 – Mar 2023

JavaScript, Node.js, Firebase, Netlify

Developed a multiplayer card game with a serverless architecture using Firebase’s Realtime Database and Netlify Functions.
Built a custom drag and drop library from scratch using vanilla JavaScript.
Implemented user authentication and lobby management with Firebase.

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Certificate of Entrepreneurship

Sep 2019 – May 2023