Brian Hamner

What I Bring

Designerly Approach

I spent the first 15 years of my career in a professional design capacity, so I can make my work visually appealing

Test-Driven

I love writing tests! I also use commandline tools for linting and security checks. Most importantly I take pride in always QA'ing my work.

Product Sense

My experience in marketing gives me a great product sense. I do freelancing for local clients, which keeps my product sense sharp.

Workflow Centric

I enjoy creating and optimizing workflows for development teams, translating technical requirements, and estimating tickets.

Work History

RANDALL REILLY
Tuscaloosa, AL (remote)
Apr 2013 - Present
Software Engineer 2
Jan 2023 - Present
  • Worked with product teams and mentored junior developers in an Agile environment
  • Created development standards, workflows, and branching strategies for engineering teams
  • Kept up to date on emerging technologies especially across TALL stack
  • Worked across multiple product teams to build and scale SAAS client facing products and internal tools
Development Team Lead
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022 · 4 yrs
  • Lead Developer for Reporting and & Analytics division
  • Developed and designed proprietary software which brought in record-year EBITDA
  • Developed and optimized queries for extremely large datasets to scale
  • Concepted & Engineered multiple internal tools, increasing accuracy and performance internal teams
Web Developer Business Analyst
Apr 2013 - Dec 2019 · 6 yrs 9 mos
  • Used MVC, CodeIgniter and Laravel to develop client-facing B2B web and mobile applications and APIs for national brands
HALIFAX MEDIA
Tuscaloosa, AL
Jan 2012 - Apr 2013
Digital Media Designer
Jan 2012 - Apr 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos
  • Developed graphics & advertising with Adobe Creative Suite and Adobe Flash
  • Built backend REST API for web CRM for ad ticketing with PHP and MYSQL
  • Created landing pages with HTML, PHP, CSS, & Javascript
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Tuscaloosa, AL
Oct 2008 - Jan 2012
Digital Media Designer
Jan 2010 - Dec 2011 · 2 yrs
  • Quickly promoted to new Digital Media team
  • Learned ActionScript and Flash to create animated video ads
  • Created landing pages with HTML, PHP, CSS, & Javascript
  • Worked with members of the sales team to expedite client requests
Advertising Designer
Oct 2008 - Dec 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos
  • Developed graphics & advertising design with Adobe Creative Suite
  • Contributed to the largest consecutive advertising growth in the RMG

Languages

MySQL

years

PHP

years

Javascript

years

JQuery

years

Laravel

years

CodeIgniter

years

MariaDB

years

VueJs

years

PostgreSQL

years

Tailwind

years

AlpineJs

years

Livewire

years