Becky Pollard

Profile

A driven programmer with a focus on frontend web development that has a demonstrated history of producing clean, well documented, maintainable code and is always striving to improve her knowledge.

Skill Highlights

• HTML5
• CSS & SCSS
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• React
• TypeScript
• Java
• C#
• Python
• Webpack
• Node.js
• Web Accessibility
• Git & GitHub
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Image Editing
• Vector & SVG
• Documentation

Education

• George Brown College 2025-2027

  Computer Programming and Analysis

• Juno College of Technology 2018

  Web Development Bootcamp

• Fanshawe College 2012 - 2015

  Graphic Design

Work Experience

• Software Developer, Bad Gateway

  Toronto, March 2021 - March 2023

  Tech stack: JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Rest APIs, Ketting

  • Building intricate active web applications used by many customers, and single-page web experiences for clients in various industries.
  • Creating and maintaining high-quality REST APIs.
  • Working off wireframes to generate beautiful designs and functionality for applications and product features.
  • Writing in-depth and communicative technical documentation/manuals about the applications we build, for client education and internal knowledge-bank enrichment.

• Software Developer, Uberflip

  Toronto, May 2020 (impacted by COVID-19 mass-layoffs)

  Tech stack: PHP, CSS/SCSS, TypeScript, JavaScript.

  • Promotion to software team, responsible for programming changes and new features to the core Uberflip application.
  • Collaborated with head UX designer to transform the Uberflip platform's new branding and user experience.
  • Wrote new and improved existing internal documentation of the Engineering team's local development environment to fast-track future onboarding and improve department's recorded knowledge bank.

• Frontend Developer, Uberflip

  Toronto, April 2019 - May 2020

  Tech stack: JavaScript, jQuery, CSS/SCSS, Webpack.

  • Customized client's Uberflip content management web experiences, both in design and functionality, with strict short turn-around deadlines and multiple simultaneous assignments.
  • Communicated efficiently with clients: clarified technical concepts, set expectations, decreased product implementation time by gathering exact requirements.
  • Improved project stability and reduced build times by upgrading to Webpack 4. Cut build times by 50% and generation of local dev environments by up to 70% - 80%.

• Frontend Developer, GroupBy Inc.

  Toronto, August 2018 - March 2019

  Tech stack: JavaScript, Riot.js, CSS/SCSS, TypeScript

  • Collaborated in focused teams to deliver e-commerce store product search solutions tailored to client branding and catalogue complexity.
  • Programmed search result filtering by client-directed parameters, collaborated with ETL data team to refine catalogue data to satisfy parameters.