Mario Parris

Remote Software Developer with over a decade of experience in full-stack web development.

St. George, Barbados

Email: mario+hire at eightbitmachine.com

Experience

QLess Inc., 2017 – Present (Remote)

Frontend Engineer

Maintained and enhanced legacy web application suite, for digital queue management, using JavaScript & TypeScript with Knockout, React, Websockets, and a Java & MySQL backend.

  • Led major effort to improve software quality and reduced bug rate by 300% over 2 years by improving software development practices, tooling, and documentation.

  • Streamlined local development workflow by containerising the development environment using Docker for easily reproducible, OS agnostic, environments.

  • Implemented CI for legacy JavaScript and Java projects.

  • Debugged and optimised legacy front-end applications delivering 1.5 - 2x performance improvements across multiple products.

  • Mentored and successfully transitioned a Support team member into a Frontend Engineer role.

Scoros International, 2012 – 2017

Software Developer

Developed features for Northern Light’s SinglePoint Strategic Research Portals in PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL.

  • Reduced deployment time of SSO Integration from 4 hours to 1 hour by refactoring the module to meet SAML 2.0 standards and automated configuration & deployment to significantly reduce user errors.

  • Developed internal automation tools using Python to streamline deployments and indicate risky changes.

  • Trained colleagues on how to use git and other console tools.

Brightsquare Inc., 2009 – 2012

Frontend Developer

Transformed digital designs into HTML/CSS templates for a proprietary CMS platform for marketing and e-commerce websites.

  • Improved page-load performance of all client sites by 2-3 seconds.

  • Implemented a Faceted Search system, using Zend Framework (PHP) and JavaScript, for a real estate search engine.

  • Educated colleagues and clients on web standards and best practices.

  • Proposed and led plan to decrease development time & costs and improve capabilities and features offered to customers by migrating to the WordPress CMS.

Education

BSc. Computer Science (Upper 2nd Class Honours), 2009

University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.