George Dover

Senior Front-end/Fullstack Software Engineer

> Proficient frontend and fullstack developer with 6 years of professional experience with JavaScript (React, Node, Express, and Next), 6 years with HTML & CSS, 6 years with SQL and NoSQL DBs, 5 years with PHP (Laravel), 3 years with TypeScript (React) and Python (Django), 1 year with Go, Rust and YAML, alongside LabVIEW and Fortran in earlier scientific software development roles.

> Strong track record of leading successful projects introducing core app developments, fixing legacy code, and improving capabilities, customer satisfaction, performance, stability and maintainability.

Experience

Software Engineer, Front-end & API

Pepperchat
Portland, Oregon, USA (Remote) • Freelance
March 2025 - May 2025
AI Integration & Platform Enhancement

- Integrated OpenAI API into TypeScript therapy platform front-end to expand on and make user-inputted medical documentation AMA-compliant, and track trends and insights.
- Refactored UI to display AI-detected categories in rich text editor, present modal prompts for category fields to be generated, and simplify onboarding to increase user retention by >20%.

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Mozilla
Portland, Oregon, USA (Remote) • Contract
October 2024 - March 2025
Four Keys Platform Development

- Continued development of a comprehensive four keys metrics platform using Python, Go, Rust and YAML to monitor performance, availability, reliability, and latency across 65 microservices.
- Led the redesign of Google BigQuery four keys metrics database structure, improving scaling potential by quartering the queries needed and reducing bytes processed by >90%.

Project Strategy and Execution

- Independently strategized and executed the four keys expansion project from concept to delivery, aligning with organizational goals, achieving buy-in and ensuring timely completion.
- Collaborated with SREs and stakeholders to identify unique challenges for onboarding whilst addressing security concerns and ownership gaps to orchestrate seamless integrations.

Senior Software Engineer, Front-end & Fullstack

Intuit Mailchimp
Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Remote)
July 2021 - September 2024
Editor UX Improvements

- Technical lead for enhancement projects in complex and legacy email editor code; responding to user feedback and achieving low LCP and TTI times for new features with reductions for old.
- Completed 4 fundamental redesigns of the multichannel editing platform, expanding flexibility for future development using React (JavaScript and TypeScript), HTML, CSS, Node, PHP and Python.
- Assumed project management, design, quality assurance, accessibility and security responsibilities by attending to broken WCAG 2.1 features, XSS concerns and the entire SDLC for niche features.

On-call Management

- Successfully resolved 15 severe warrooms, acted as emergency on-call eng for 12+ months, and championed good practices for on-call using PagerDuty, Bugsnag, Grafana, and FullStory.
- Assisted SREs and DevOps diagnose batch server issues affecting thousands of users, and fix automated testing inefficiencies costing >30 mins of development-cycle delays per developer.

Cross-functional Collaboration

- Maintained stakeholder trust and holistic perspective of company needs via contact with and presentations to engineering, design, product management, QA, and security colleagues.
- Nurtured mentorships, education, and team building between peers via knowledge sharing sessions, accessible documentation, and organizing meet-ups and hangouts outside of work.

ERP Analyst, Legacy & Custom Development and Integrations

Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, Texas, USA
July 2019 - July 2021
Interfaces and API Integrations

- Built fullstack web apps in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and SQL to allow non-technical management of ERP system, REST/SOAP APIs to sync custom apps and SaaS products, and publicly available HIPAA-compliant methods for gathering and storing Covid-19 infection data.
- Linked analytics between custom and ERP systems using DB stored procedures to provide real time reporting on high traffic events like admissions and financial aid.

Legacy Software Maintenance

- Supported and fixed 20+ active microservices between 1-15 years in age; adapting to align with new regulations, processes and modernization expectations.
- Tier 3 support and technical liaison for directors and staff across campus; satisfying access management requests, expediting feature demands, and responding to issues on desktop systems and server infrastructure.

Education

University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Master of Physics (MPhys) with Honours
September 2013 - July 2017
3.83 GPA (equivalent); 1st-class with Honors
> Carbon Nanotube Dry Spinnable Sheets for Solar Selective Coatings by Lamination (Martinez, 2016)
> Biophysical interactions between pancreatic cancer cells and pristine carbon nanotube substrates (Matta-Domjan, 2017)
Worthing Sixth-Form College, Worthing, UK
A-Levels
September 2011 - July 2013
A-level Physics | A-level Mathematics | A-level Further Mathematics | AS-level History

Skills

 Languages & Frameworks
JavaScript/TypeScript (React, Node, Express, Next) PHP (Laravel) Python (Django) HTML CSS (Tailwind, LESS) SQL (Postgres, MySQL, BigQuery, Oracle) GraphQL Go Rust YAML LabVIEW Fortran
 Tools & Technologies
Git Vite Webpack ESBuild Jenkins Docker Kubernetes ArgoCD GitHub Actions Terraform AWS GCP Bugsnag Splunk Prometheus Elasticsearch Kibana Grafana Amplitude FullStory Qualtrics Optimizely Selenium Jest React Dev Tools Jira OpsGenie PagerDuty Adobe XD Figma Miro Slack
 Core Competencies
  •  Agile and Waterfall Development Methodologies
  •  Front-end and Fullstack Web Development
  •  Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), APIs, and Observability
  •  APIs (RESTful, GraphQL)
  •  Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Observability
  •  Object-Oriented Programming
  •  Database Design
  •  Secure Coding
  •  Test-driven Development
  •  Regression and Performance Testing
  •  Quality Assurance
  •  Data Analysis and Visualization
  •  Team and Project Leadership
  •  Team Building and Mentorship
  •  On-call Management
  •  Cross-functional Collaboration
  •  Technical Writing
  •  Regulatory Compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, PII, etc)
  •  Support Engineering
  •  Access Management
  •  Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
  •  Scientific Computing