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Creative Frontend Web Developer with 5+ years of frontend experience. The last 4 years I've been building rebrands, Shopify stores, and web apps at digital agencies. And the 2 years before that building a desktop application

Chris Hayes 💻 🖌️

Creative Frontend Web Developer with 5+ years of frontend experience. The last 4 years I've been building rebrands, Shopify stores, and web apps at digital agencies. And the 2 years before that building a desktop application in a college startup. I bring the pragmaticsm of someone who's worked with clients, and delivered a dozen major projects from planning to launch. I'm familiar with WCAG requirements and testing. I know the marketing tools used by most companies. But, I'm also someone who enjoys

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Creative Frontend Web Developer with 5+ years of frontend experience.

The last 4 years I’ve been building rebrands, Shopify stores, and web apps at digital agencies. And the 2 years before that building a desktop application in a college startup.

I bring the pragmaticsm of someone who’s worked with clients, and delivered a dozen major projects from planning to launch. I’m familiar with WCAG requirements and testing. I know the marketing tools used by most companies.

But, I’m also someone who enjoys design. My work comes with a certain level of polish from having an eye for design. I’m happy to throw together a mock-up in Figma.

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Qualifications

AWS Certified Associate Developer
May 1, 2021 - May 1, 2024
2nd Place - Connecticut Tech Challenge 2018
October 1, 2018 - November 1, 2018
Placed 1st in the University of New Haven programming challenge. Together with the 2nd and 3rd place, we formed a team to compete at the state finals, where our team came in 2nd place.

Industry Experience

Software & Internet
    paper FreshpetVet.com Rebuild (2024)
    This is a web build done for Freshpet specifically geared towards veterinarians. This site was migrated from WordPress to a modern headless stack with the new design system. It's built with Next.js, content is driven by the headless CMS, Builder.io. Content is sync'd from freshpet.com. Components come from a unified design system and library across the 2 sites. Freshpet no longer has to manually create nutrition PDFs for the pet food products, this build now automatically generates nutrition sheets based on CMS nutrition data, all downloadable by users. The PDFs also look better too since they are built with react components from the new design system.
    paper trendomatic.app (2024)
    This web app was built for the marketing team at Digital Surgeons. It finds the top trends in real-time, and generates product and content ideas based off them. This app was built in Next.js. It uses Supabase, OpenAI Assistants, and some other APIs. Website: trendomatic.app](https://www.twine.net/signin Screenshot of Trendomatic.app](https://www.twine.net/signin
    paper EndlessPools.com/Build | 3D Product Configurator (2020)
    This was a web build for a 3D pool configurator, supporting both static pools and pools with resizable dimensions. The WebGL engine behind this was PlayCanvas3D. The UI was built with Vue. A lot of effort went into optimization in the browser and as well as building the asset pipelines to optimize raw 3D assets from our modeler. Some unique features of this configurator: realistic water, dynamic cubemaps (for realistic reflections), and resizable pools using morphs. Website: endlesspools.com/build](https://www.twine.net/signin Screenshot of the outdoor pool scene](https://www.twine.net/signin Screenshot of the indoor pool scene](https://www.twine.net/signin
    paper Freshpet.com Rebrand (2023-2024)
    Helped deliver the rebrand in Next.js/React, Tailwind on Builder.io. Maintained the site from 2023 to 2024, building new components, fixing bugs and connecting integrations. Website: freshpet.com](https://www.twine.net/signin Screenshot of freshpet.com](https://www.twine.net/signin
    paper chargriller.com (2022)
    This was the Shopify build for Char-Griller grilling. It uses more traditional Shopify theme templating with BEM+SASS styling. What's unique about this project is it is part of a design system that consists of Masterbuilt.com, KamadoJoe.com, and CharGriller.com. DS built all 3 Shopify stores with an extensible component system. All components are in a singular Storybook, with a toggle between the 3 different site themes. These sites have also been thoroughly tested with screen readers. Website: chargriller.com](https://www.twine.net/signin Screenshot of char-griller homepage](https://www.twine.net/signin
    paper Realityi.com (2021)
    The website for the agency was rebranded with a more modern look and better maintainability, while retaining the WordPress content. The site was rebuilt with Elementor, Pods.io, and ACF to greatly improve the ability for the team to create new components and update old ones. Website: realityi.com](https://www.twine.net/signin Screenshot of the realityi.com homepage](https://www.twine.net/signin
    paper KamadoJoe.com (2022)
    This was the Shopify build for KamadoJoe grilling. It uses more traditional Shopify theme templating with BEM+SASS styling. What's unique about this project is it is part of a design system that consists of Masterbuilt.com, KamadoJoe.com, and CharGriller.com. DS built all 3 Shopify stores with an extensible component system. All components are in a singular Storybook, with a toggle between the 3 different site themes. These sites have also been thoroughly tested with screen readers. Website: kamadojoe.com/](https://www.twine.net/signin Screenshot of kamadojoe.com homepage](https://www.twine.net/signin
    paper Dolly bot (2022)
    This was a prototype to build a Slack bot to interact with DALL-E 2. One challenge was that this ideally would be a serverless bot to avoid needing a server running 24/7, but Slack's "Bolt" framework didn't support serverless. Workarounds were made to allow this bot to run serverless as well as to call the DALL-E 2 API at a time when DALL-E did not officially have an API. Website: dollybot.digitalsurgeons.com](https://www.twine.net/signin Screenshot of Dollybot](https://www.twine.net/signin
    paper Masterbuilt.com (2021)
    This was the Shopify build for Masterbuilt grilling. It uses more traditional Shopify theme templating with BEM+SASS styling. What's unique about this project is it is part of a design system that consists of Masterbuilt.com, KamadoJoe.com, and CharGriller.com. DS built all 3 Shopify stores with an extensible component system. All components are in a singular Storybook, with a toggle between the 3 different site themes. These sites have also been thoroughly tested with screen readers. Website: masterbuilt.com](https://www.twine.net/signin Screenshot of masterbuilt.com](https://www.twine.net/signin
    paper DS Change-blog (2023)
    This was a prototype I made to solve the challenge of wanting an engineering blog, but not having the team capacity to write full blog posts routinely. It didn't gain traction, but it was an interesting experiment using Tailwind's "Changelog" template. The images were created with MidJourney AI. Website: https://www.twine.net/signin Screenshot of changeblog site](https://www.twine.net/signin

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