🤔 Split Infinities Blog Services Resume

William M. Riley

Product Engineer

will@splitinfinities.com

splitinfinities.com

Professional Summary

I am an experienced full-stack engineer focused on solving problems in simple ways with the right technologies. I believe that great product comes from applying your skills to create a harmony of efficient and powerful code. My personality makes it easy for me to work with a team or stay focused and driven on projects where I need to work alone.


Experience
June. 2018 – Present

Freelance Product Engineer at Split Infinities

  • Design-led freelancer working to make a design-led product consultancy agency.

  • Responsibilities: Consulting with my clients to make great applications, websites, command line tools, strategic technical decisions, and much, much more.

Stellar

Web Components Ruby on Rails WordPress React Sketch

  • An open-source tool to help developers and designers make stellar cross-platform applications, and websites.

  • Version 0 designed by William M. Riley (me), in progress, Version 1 is designed by Nicholas Burroughs.

  • Stellar is a Design System generator, using web components, available to use with React, Vue, Express, Electron, Cordova/Phonegap, Capacitor, WordPress, Ruby on Rails, Laravel, Grails, and anything else that uses HTML.

Conversocial

CSS HTML HubSpot Responsive React

  • Conversocial is a customer service product that helps companies manage their large and wide ranging amount of social media accounts in one place.

  • Worked on the responsive design for the re-branded marketing site, providing user experience design, engineering, and project management to achieve marketing goals.

  • Helped expand the feature set of their demo product, to help accommodate for the products updated features, and to help sales acquire new customers.
Apr. 2016 – May. 2018

Software Engineer - Flywheel

  • Design-led WordPress Hosting company based out of Omaha, Nebraska.

  • Responsibilities: Mentorship, full-stack engineering, design implementation, performance and accessibility audits, unit/integration testing, quality assurance, user-testing, product research, customer support and monthly on-call and support escalation assignments, market research, ideation, project management, data engineering, data visualization and projection, much more.

  • Accomplishments: Rewriting the application frontend and parts of the backend, Domain manager product, Database Manager redesign, Data Engineering, Design system project scoping, service and mentorship to my team that gave me lifelong friendships.

Application

Ruby on Rails JavaScript Vue React Web Components CSS Motion Design Technical Strategy Motion Design

  • Re-architected the Front-end application with modern JavaScript standards and modern CSS to match new brand, and build well designed product faster.

  • Mobile and Progressive Web App work by reducing network requests and using standard browser features to make a high quality app-like feel to the entire Flywheel experience.

  • Accessibility QA and testing to confirm all users can take advantage of Flywheel's product.

  • Performance QA and testing to confirm all users can take advantage of Flywheel's product.

  • Balanced quality with quantity output by using tools like Scrum, Slack, Github, and Jira to collaborate with my team and make great product, fast.

  • Provided and received mentorship to my team in order to level up the quality of work we could consistently output.

  • Made motion design for story-telling through illustrations on the sign up, and forgot password pages of Flywheel, as well as through the spinning wheel mark.

Database Manager

PHP JavaScript Polymer CSS Motion Design Technical Strategy

  • Re-architected the application with modern JavaScript standards and modern CSS to match new brand, and build well designed product faster.

  • Used Polymer (similar to React) to craft a high-quality experience making a database manager that interacts with Flywheel sites and services.

  • Significant user-testing and product research via all-company support and monthly on-call responsibilities.

Data Engineering

Ruby on Rails JavaScript Polymer CSS Motion Design

  • Project managed the data sector of Flywheel through to success, created a roadmap for data at Flywheel and saw it through to the end.

  • Onboarded a Data Visualization expert and collaborated with them to help get the chair level data questions accurately answered.

  • Used Ruby on Rails to build a custom ETL for HubSpot and ChartMogul, a 4 month project.
Aug. 2014 – Apr. 2016

Lead Developer at Grain & Mortar

  • Design company based out of Omaha, Nebraska.

  • Responsibilities: Development, Developer Operations, Project Management, Quality Assurance, SEO, Social Discovery, Design, Motion. WordPress, MySQL, SASS, JavaScript, Git, Illustrator.

  • Accomplishments: Built an internal theme to make development run smoother and to help us build well designed product faster, mentorship and service to my team.

  • Launched 22 sites, notable projects follow:

Google Cardboard

PHP JavaScript Angular CSS

  • Google - Cardboard Manufacturer

  • Responsibilities: Development, Developer Operations, Project Management, Quality Assurance, SEO, Social Discovery, Design, Motion.

  • Accomplishments: High quality site that produces a QR code for makers of VR Headsets to place on the side of their product. The QR code helps software understand the details of how close the screen is to the customers eyes, so the VR headset can produce clear, quality display for the user.

Twitch Engineering

HTML JavaScript Bash CSS SASS Git Illustrator SVG animations Motion Design Technical Strategy

  • Twitch is a social streaming platform used by over 100 million users per month. Twitch came to Grain & Mortar to make a landing page for their Engineering site, during a hiring surge.

  • Responsibilities: Development, API Integration, Developer Operations, Project Management, Quality Assurance, SEO, Social Discovery, Design, Motion.

Flint

PHP WordPress Advanced Custom Fields MySQL JavaScript Polymer SASS CSS Git Illustrator

  • Flint is a cross-platform payment product. We were tasked with making a usable, customizable WordPress theme with 30 pages responsive in a matter of 2 months.

  • Responsibilities: Mentorship, Development, Developer Operations, Project Management, Quality Assurance, SEO, Social Discovery, Design, Motion, Project Management.

Big Omaha

PHP WordPress Advanced Custom Fields MySQL JavaScript Polymer SASS CSS Git Illustrator SVG Animation Motion Design Mentorship Technical Strategy

  • Big Omaha is a tech conference that has been going on for 10 years. The team at Big Omaha came to Grain & Mortar to design the conference for three years, I was involved in 2015 and 2016. These were some of my favorite projects to work on, and I'm proud of the outcome.

  • Responsibilities: Development, Developer Operations, Project Management, Quality Assurance, SEO, Social Discovery, Design, Motion, Apple Wallet ticket.

  • Accomplishments: The Schedule page is one of the most commented-on features of the event, and was a big success for helping people get to where they needed to go throughout the event.

Overland Summers

PHP WordPress Advanced Custom Fields MySQL JavaScript SASS CSS Git Illustrator Motion Design Technical Strategy

  • Overland Summers is an organization that does summer travel adventures for kids & teens. The team came to Grain & Mortar to design and build them a site so they can process orders better online and help customers prepare their kids for their trip.

  • Responsibilities: Development, Developer Operations, Project Management, Quality Assurance, SEO, Social Discovery, Design Implementation.

  • Accomplishments: The "What to pack" section is extremely user friendly and customizable, and served the team at Overland's needs. They were extremely satisfied with the result.
Sept. 2014 – Sept. 2016

Director of Web/New Media at AIGA Nebraska

  • Builds sites and runs open source initiatives to support efforts in the community.

  • Created Midwest Design Chat slack team as an AIGA Nebraska initiative. Designed and built website to help grow the team.

  • Currently in the process of redesigning and building our chapter’s site with Round & Round.

  • Created Web Committee to support the technical challenges, currently managing a team of two.
Feb. 2012 – Aug. 2015

Founder, Engineer at Hubdia

Social platform added to iOS App Store and Google Playstore to help connect different kinds of makers on the internet. I’ve put this down for about a year.
Mar. 2013 – Feb. 2014

Jr. Front End Developer at Ervin & Smith

Built and tested landing pages and emails for clients.

Highly refined technique to adapt to complex campaigns.
Mar. 2013 – Feb. 2014

Engineer Intern at Ervin & Smith, working on Blogglebeans

Built and maintained a web platform for connecting children to their grandparents

Extended an interactive calendar to help clarify long events and ease the experience for grandparents

Worked with the lead developer and launched a mobile iOS app and API in a short matter of 2 months
Jul. 2010 – Jan. 2012

Founder, Engineer at Oiled Up Birds, an art collective

Designed and deployed a rich, dynamic PHP based website to help creators organize their content.

Help a 38 person team of individuals to create yearly products.

Set up and facilitate bi-monthly events.

Created an Open Source, immersive business model, which generated return.

Manage and communicate with person-base to continually improve products.

Proficiencies


OS X (Primary) Linux (+ Server) Windows (+ Server) Modern HTML Modern CSS JavaScript (ES6+) Webpack Rollup Node.Js Electron React Vue Polymer Web Components Backbone.js Ruby Ruby on Rails Golang PHP WordPress Laravel Phonegap/Cordova Capacitor MySQL Nginx Redis Memcache Sass (Scss) CakePHP Zend MongoDB jQuery OpenID OAuth1/2 Apache Photoshop Illustrator Sketch InDesign Flash


…And so much more!