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• 📰   I work as a principal software engineer at Expel
• 📻   Ask me about radio dramas. What I'm listening to: 1984
• 😄   Pronouns: he/him

⚡ Experience

Principal Software Engineer

Expel Feb 2024 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

Expel Oct 2022 - Feb 2024

• Create and maintain a themeable design system with React and TypeScript, along with TS-In-CSS style library Vanilla Extract

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Arc XP Jan 2022 - October 2022

• Pair-program with peers and junior developers
• Architect design system with documentation and tutorials for best practices
• Maintain and document ownership of previous responsibilities

Full Stack Software Engineer

Arc XP Feb 2020 - Jan 2022 : 2 yrs

• Collaborate with team members in designing state of the art Theme based websites in React.js
• Support existing highly-scalable backend services and applications within AWS
• Own responsibility for running applications using CI/CD practices such as automated builds, deployments and tests

Senior Software Engineer

Haas Alert Oct 2019 - Jan 2020 : 4 mos

• Scaled data handling in app 10x for a larger userbase
• Mentored other developers on best practices in Electron and React

Software Engineer

Haas Alert May 2019 - Oct 2019 : 6 mos

• Utilized React to create an engaging map app for emergency clients
• Communicated with clients to develop new features

Software Engineer

Origin Investments May 2019 - April 2019 : 1 yr

• Solved front-end accessibility issues in React Native and React apps

Full Stack Developer

Realnets Sep 2017 - May 2018 : 9 mos

• Created cutting-edge solutions for start-ups with React

📚 Education

Dev Bootcamp

Software Engineering 2017

University of Missouri-Columbia

BJ, Convergence Journalism 2012 - 2016

Contact

📨 Email	jackhowa@fastmail.com
GitHub	jackhowa

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