Ricky Rhodes
EXPERIENCE
Lume Deodorant | Senior Software Engineer | May 2024-Present
- Migrated Shopify Liquid application to a Headless Remix architecture, solely owning end-to-end technical decisions, including infrastructure design, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and component library implementation
- Built an AI-powered service to automate image alt text generation by scraping websites, processing image inputs, and syncing results to Shopify and spreadsheets
- Implemented Product Upsell feature increasing incremental revenue by $1MM annually
- Led the engineering organization's adoption of Datadog, implementing comprehensive alerting and monitoring for critical systems to ensure reliability and uptime
- Identified and remediated instances of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and secret leakage across multiple backend services, significantly improving data security and compliance
- Established best practices for unit testing and seamlessly integrated test suite into the CI/CD pipeline, resulting in improved code quality and deployment efficiency
Harry’s | Senior Software Engineer | July 2022-December 2023
- Collaborated cross functionally to successfully launch digital wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay,
- Paypal) increasing weekly subscription orders by 40%
- Implemented Social Login with AWS Cognito driving 18% increase in new customer acquisition
- Researched, created technical documentation, and scoped all work for quarterly roadmaps
- Designed curriculum and provided mentorship to a software engineering apprentice throughout a one-year program, resulting in their successful transition to a full-time role within the org
Harry’s | Software Engineer | Jun 2021-July 2022
- Transformed subscription quiz flow UI/UX to drive a 100% increase in paid social conversion rate, strategically employing Optimizely A/B testing to maximize impact
- Rebuilt homepage with modular components fully configurable by operators from the CMS
- Refactored an event consumer to retrieve internal API data instead of hardcoded JSON, removing an on-call page saving over 48 engineering hours per year
- Maintained The Forge, Harry’s front-end platform which encompassed a component library, an internal customer service tool, GraphQL servers/resolvers, CI/CD build scripts, and Fastly CDN configuration
Fullstack Academy | Software Engineering Teaching Fellow | Mar 2021-Jun 2021
- Taught and mentored over 50 students through code reviews, one-on-ones, React workshops, and demos
Ricky Rhodes Photo | Founder/Photographer | Jun 2010 - Feb 2021
- Owned and managed a photography business, overseeing marketing, sales, budgeting, and creative production, client-focused problem-solving, resource optimization, creative direction, client relations, and business growth
TECHNICAL SKILLS
TypeScript, HTML, CSS, React, Node.js, Remix, React Router, Next.js,, Tailwind, GraphQL, Express, SQL, ORMs, Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright, AWS, CircleCI, Cloudflare, Datadog, Fastly, Figma, GCP, Git, Github Actions, Terraform, Shopify, Cursor, LLMs
EDUCATION
Software Engineering | Fullstack Academy | Feb 2021
Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication | Ohio University | June 2010