Mitchell Starkey
Charlotte, NC
Front End Developer at Red Ventures
- Core: JS (ES6), Node, React, SASS, UX/UI design
- Experienced: AWS, Go, Vue, JSP, Canvas, Wordpress
< About Me />
Who I Am
I'm Mitchell Starkey, a farm boy turned front end engineer from Lebanon, Indiana. I love learning new skills, teaching aspiring developers, and collaborating with coworkers to get things done. Following Indiana University, I was accepted into the +70 hours / week Designation bootcamp in Chicago where I gained experiences and skills necessary for a full stack designer. This included everything from wireframes to Adobe Suite to Javascript.
Following the educational years, I moved to Louisville and worked as a Front End Developer for ALTOUR for just shy of 2 years. During my free time I enjoyed mentoring/teaching at the local Code Louisville bootcamp. After 2 years in NYC working for PCH, I am now currently working as a Front End Developer at Red Ventures in Charlotte, NC. I'm always open to part time or freelance work for exciting projects.
Professional Experience
Red Ventures
May 2019 - Present- Work across multiple businesses and teams to lead both front and backend projects.
- Projects have included full site redesigns, foundational code standardizations, and site migrations to AWS.
- Mentored with Road2Hire and Golden Door Scholars (2 years), and have gone through management training and acted as Engineering manager for 2 junior developers.
PCH
November 2017 - May 2019- Moved from Louisville to NYC to work as part of the creative team at PCH.
- I was the sole UI developer on project teams consisting of QA engineers, back end developers, system administrators, project managers, and designers.
- Worked on projects across old apps as well as started new apps from scratch. One project required no external libraries and support of old IE versions, where others I was able to use newer technologies such as Vue, GSAP, and Flex/Grid.
ALTOUR
April 2016 - November 2017- Hired to redesign and build a booking engine from legacy code into React.js.
- Worked in an agile environment on a team of 7-10 people ranging from front end developers to systems administrators.
- Acted as project lead on projects for the likes of American Express and different Universities.
Management/Mentorship
Red Ventures - Engineering Manager
May 2022 - December 2022- Completed management training and worked as Engineering Manager for two new hires on the team.
- Used past mentorship experience to work with different personality types and work styles.
- Was part of the post-layoff reshuffle and, after switching to a smaller team, no longer had this opportunity.
Road2Hire
Off and on since 2020- Volunteered as a tech mentor for students going through the RV internal tech program - Road2Hire.
- Weekly 1-on-1 meetings and other review/pair sessions as needed.
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Golden Door Scholars
July 2021 - May 2023- Volunteeded as a long term (2 year) college and tech mentor to a pod of 4 DACA students going into college with a CS major.
- Monthly required zoom calls to discuss college, classes, and tech related questions.
- GDS specific Slack channel to discuss anything from homework to internships throughout the month.
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Code Louisville
September 2016 - September 2017- Volunteered my time to teach/mentor for the local Code Louisville bootcamp.
- Led a class of 15-25 students covering topics from basic HTML to design best practices to JS frameworks.
- Was available outside of class on Slack and occassionally worked one on one with students who wanted extra practice.
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Education
Designation.io
Chicago, ILIndiana University
Bloomington, INLebanon High School
Lebanon, IN< Selected Projects />
Travel Booking Engine - 2017
React.js, Redux, CSS, JSP, ES6Working with one other front end developer on a booking engine for flight, hotel, and car bookings used by companies such as American Express and Macys. Was hired on at ALTOUR to help rewrite the legacy JSP and PHP code into ES6 and React.js. Booking engine work also included updating JSP/PHP code and designing/creating headers and footers for new clients.
( Personal/Client Login required for live site )
March Madness Draft - 2019
JS (ES6), React.js, SCSS, Express, Nginx, MongoDB, PusherFor the past 7 years a group of friends and I have had a fantasy league for the March Madness tournament. Since we all don't live in Indiana anymore, I decided to create this draft app. Currently hard coding the draft settings and owners. v2 is to create multiple drafts and create a round by round view throughout tournament. There's currently the draft and chat functionality, and an Admin page to upload an Excel file of players and their stats. Login as Admin and the draft starts once the first player is drafted. Will keep updating until March 17th.
Atmospheres - 2015
HTML5, CSS3, JS, UX/UI, Echonest APIWebsite that takes the user's location, utilizes an api to get the current weather for that location, then creates a playlist with the Echonest and Spotify APIs to fit the mood by adjusting the BPM and energy level variables. Designed and coded with the help of Jeff Hopkins during our time at Designation.
PCH Lotto - 2019
JS (ES6), CSS, HTML, Webpack, SassWorking as part of the PCH Lotto team, I worked with one other front end dev to develop the experiences, animations, and functionality for the lottery cards and landing pages. This work included making the lotto cards configurable and reusable, redesigns, animating the selections, and creating unique lotto cards (such as a holiday giftpack).
PCH Keno - 2018
JS (ES6), CSS, HTML Canvas, WebpackWorking as part of the PCH Keno team, I helped develop the lottery scratchcards (Canvas), leaderboard, and landing pages. This work included refactering the scratchcards, animating the "scratching", redesigning and rewriting the leaderboard, and fixing the numorous cross browser issues (PCH supports old IE versions) from the legacy codebase.
< Personal Recommendations />
"I have been working with Mitchell Starkey for over a year. He started as a Junior Web Developer and grew his role within this short period of time. He is smart, responsive and easy to work with. He is a self starter and is always willing to take on more responsibility and work on new projects. He is on top of current technologies, and regularly offers up recommendations and explanations that help us make a better product. He is a member of the team that switched parts of product to React. He will be a great addition to any organization."
"Mitchell Starkey is one of those rare developers that has both strong technical skills and an eye for great design. He is also an excellent communicator, able to convey information in a clear and understandable manner. In addition to his outstanding skills and abilities he gives back to the developer community by teaching and mentoring students at Code Louisville. This, of course, strengthens his technical skills and abilities as well. I recommend Mitchell Starkey without any reservations. He is one of those great needle in a haystack developers that everyone is looking for!"
"Mitchell was able to break down complex instructions into an easy to follow, step to step process"