Mario Parris

QLess Inc., 2017 – Present (Remote)

Consulant - Software Engineer

Maintained and improved the core web application suite for digital queue management used by thousands of customers. Built tooling and processes to improve code quality and team velocity.

• Improved software quality, and reduced bugs, by improving software development practices, tooling, and internal process documentation.
• Increased developer productivity by containerising the development environment to resolve long-standing parity, stability and consistency issues between development and production environments.
• Automated builds and tests by creating CI/CD pipeline for legacy JavaScript and Java projects. Reduced the number of bugs reported and enabled the team to ship with confidence.
• Optimized frontend performance across multiple applications by reducing memory leaks and improving state management. Achieved 1.5-2x improvements in load times on affected pages, directly improving user experience for thousands of end-users.
• Automated WCAG AA compliance checks and remediated accessibility issues.
• Developed analytics reports for Twilio SMS notification costs using Grafana and Python to assist the company in reducing costs.
• Mentored and successfully transitioned a Support team member into a Frontend Engineer role.

Whitenoise Inc., 2021 – 2021 (Remote)

Consultant

Advised on the design of, and assisted with, the front-end development of the registration portal for Barbados’ National ID, the Trident Card.

Scoros International, 2012 – 2017

Software Developer

Developed features for Northern Light’s SinglePoint Platform. Worked across PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL.

• Reduced configuration and deployment time of SSO integrations from 4 hours to 1 hour by automating it and upgraded the implementation to SAML 2.0 standards.
• Developed internal automation tools, using Python, to flag risky changes before they went live.
• Trained colleagues on how to use git and other console tools.