David Witt

Full-stack Engineer • Frontend Developer • Product Manager • Seattle, WA, US

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TypeScript

React

Shopify

Svelte

Vue.js

Next.js

HTML/CSS

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Proactive Senior Engineer building amazing DX to build better UX.

Seasoned technical lead and developer advocate with a passion for empowering developers and driving exceptional developer experiences. Worked with: Therabody, Puma, Black Diamond, Saje, Hana Andersson With a strong background in full stack engineering and expertise in front-end development, I have led successful projects, mentored teams, and delivered innovative solutions for renowned brands. When I'm not working, I dabble in the dark arts of creative writing, Olympic weightlifting, and exploring the majestic PNW.

Projects

Shopify Workshops

Built with: Remix, Typescript, MDX, Tailwind Built a custom AST parser for MDX to convert tutorial text to interactive, multistep tutorials. Focused on the authoring experience to lower the barrier to entry for anyone to write a workshop.See More

Space Madness

A content framework that connects ideas so you can build your digital garden. Built as a Turbo monorepo to sync data structure between front end and back end. End to end type safety with Zod validators for data structures and GROQ queries Built with Sanity, Astro, Typescript, Zod, React, and TailwindSee More

Therabody

Built with: Salesforce Commerce Cloud Technical Lead for all web and ecommerce features Built composable content authoring system to empower marketers to create their own pages and elements Built all Product List and Product Page functionality, including filters, sorting, bundles, and promotions Coordinated design and delivery of Athletes page components, empowering content creators to publish highly interactive and animated pages without a developerSee More

Poly Love Live | The Polyamory Field Guide

Built in: Sanity, Astro, Typescript, Tailwind An educational site to help people understand and empathize with polyamorous people. Built to deeply connect and backlink resources, guides, and tools. Easily searchable, minimal, clean UI. Built with Sanity to empower anyone to contribute content. GROQ queries enable powerful document queries to connected resources.See More

Saje Natural Wellness

Built with: Salesforce Commerce Cloud Technical Lead for all web and ecommerce features Built composable content authoring system to empower marketers to create their own pages and elements Rebuilt Product Page and Cart Page, iteratively moving the site to a new design system Refactored complex premium promotion, gift with purchase, and standard discount promotion engineSee More

Hanna Andersson

Built with: Salesforce Commerce Cloud Built the Family Matching Product selector, combining complex product selection for groups of people into a unified and simple user experience. Worked with product and design leads to iterate on the best possible experience for shoppers.See More

Work History

Senior Developer Advocate

ShopifyJul 2022 - May 2023 • 11 mosBuilt the Shopify Workshops site on Remix, Typescript, MDX, and Tailwind Worked on the Hydrogen team to iterate on developer feedback and DX, taught at virtual and in person conferences Lead in person and online workshops teaching people about Shopify development and Hydrogen Wrote guides, tutorials, and documentation for shopify.dev Advocated for unifying developer experience across all our JavaScript packages, libraries, and templates

Senior Technical Lead

DemandPDXAug 2017 - Jun 2022 • 4 yrs 11 mosLead full stack engineering for site builds and improvement projects Provided technical leadership in code and data structure Ran Tech Lead innovation meeting to gather feedback and improve developer quality of life & quality of work Created an improved content creation workflow within the Salesforce Commerce Cloud admin dashboard Setup Continuous Integration flows with Bitbucket Pipelines Directed production releases, hotfixes, and long running project improvements Created yearly security training videos and presentation

Senior Storefront Engineer

FluidOct 2014 - Aug 2017 • 2 yrs 11 mosLead front end engineering for building and supporting ecommerce sites Established storefront frameworks on which sites are built Performed code reviews and merges Built out sites for testing and production replication Created Jira stories and tasks using FSDs, wireframes, and prototypes Provided technical advice and direction in project discovery phase Performed gap analysis and level of effort estimates for new features Established and maintain technical documentation

Reviews

Exceeds ExpectationsRecommended by clients 1 times.

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"David is amazing to work with. He was able to help audit our front-end app to provide an actionable plan to improve page load times. Would 100% work with again"

Adam A.Pangea.app

Education

Ohio State University

Bachelor of Science Business Administration, Business, Human ResourcesAug 2006 - May 2009

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