Ari Purcell

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Software Engineer

Vancouver, Canada

Hi, I’m Ari. I write software. Let me help you solve your problem.

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About

I am a full stack software engineer with a particular focus on building web experiences and interfaces that excite. I love solving problems and delivering creative solutions using a variety of technologies. During a normal day you would see me using a good mix of Javascript (using both Node and React), HTML and CSS for both small and large projects.

My work experience has led me to build web applications for the e-commerce and health care sectors and my education has led me to research the impact of interfaces on user experiences. I hope to promote designing for usability.

Languages

Javascript, Typescript, Java, Python, C, C++, HTML, CSS, SQL, GraphQL

I've recently been enjoying playing around with Rust, WebAssembly and WebGL

Frameworks

Vue.js, React, Alpine.js, Node.js, Express.js

Tools

Git, AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB), Docker, Webpack, Vite, Cypress, Figma, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop

Experience

2017 - 2021

Article.com

Work

Senior Software Engineer (Front End) / Software Engineer (Front End)

Maintained the public facing article.com e-commerce website and internal applications using Javascript (Vue, Angular) and Java.
Implemented and maintained features for customer experience, reviews, checkout, account management, catalog management, experimentation, tracking, and warehouse management.
Introduced a first cut of a design and component library in collaboration with UX.
Introduced Cypress and Jest as company standard test tooling.
Participated in scrum, design reviews, code reviews, hiring and new hire training.
Initiated and participated in the integration with many third party tools and services (eg. Algolia, Contentful, Paypal, Stripe).
Initiated and drove migration from legacy Play framework to Vue for the full Article website.
Involved in a re-architecture of the technology stack including introducing Vue SSR, Node and GraphQL which improved website speed and reliability.

2013 - 2017

Orion Health

Work

Intermediate Software Engineer / Junior Software Engineer / Graduate Software Engineer

Assisted in bringing the Medicines healthcare software product from inception to market. Experience with the full range of software development practices through design, implementation and support utilising Agile software development with Scrum, BDD and TDD. Development using primarily Javascript and Java. Comprehensive testing practices with automated testing using JUnit, Selenium, Docker and Bamboo.

2010 - 2011

General Dynamics - Mediaware

Work

Internship

Internship developing test suites for the EditEngine Desktop video editing software product. Development in C++ and Python.

2011 - 2014

Australian National University

Education

Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours)

Coursework: Algorithms, Databases, Software Analysis & Design, Concurrent & Distributed Systems, Information Theory, Managing Software Development, HCI, Psychology, Accounting & Economics.

Honours thesis in human-computer interaction, building and evaluating interfaces for communicating the software development process. Published a paper and presented results at the OzCHI '14 conference.