Todd Ohanian

Core Skills

Languages

  • JavaScript
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  • TypeScript
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  • Node.js
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  • SQL
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  • GraphQL
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  • HTML
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  • CSS

Technologies

  • React
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  • Apollo Client/Server
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  • Webpack
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  • AWS
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  • Redux
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  • Vue.js
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  • D3.js
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  • Next.js
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  • Gatsby
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  • GraphDB
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  • Google BigQuery
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  • Redis

Professional Experience

Fisker Inc., Manhattan Beach, CA

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Frontend Engineer

Oct 2023 - May 2024

  • Developed and integrated logging solutions to transmit events and metrics enhancing visibility into system performance, troubleshooting capabilities, and overall operational efficiency
  • Collaborated with UX/UI designers, product managers, and backend engineers to translate wireframes and requirements into functional frontend features
  • Conducted page performance benchmarking analyzing metrics such as load times, rendering speed, and resource utilization to identify optimization opportunities
  • Managed and executed expedited hotfix procedures to address critical issues, ensuring rapid identification, resolution, and deployment of patches to maintain system stability and minimize downtime for end users
  • Mentored junior developers on best practices for frontend development, including code organization, performance optimization, and debugging techniques

Bustle Digital Group, New York, NY

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Product Engineer

Oct 2020 - Feb 2023

  • Extended caching layer using Apollo Client type policies to centrally handle merging, transforming, and paginating
  • Implemented analytics pipeline using Google Analytics Pixel to collect data in BigQuery, enabling non-technical team members to create performance dashboards
  • Expanded analytics capabilities to track multiple user interactions (e.g. story completion, time spent per post)
  • Added a centrally configurable theme that standardized component styles across CMS
  • Wrote an extendable backend class that performed semantic analysis of media-rich content
  • Implemented websocket middleware in Apollo Client as a React hook, supporting user collaboration in the CMS
  • Refactored critical top-level modules to TypeScript enforcing type safety in component-level code

Genesis Global Trading, New York, NY

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Frontend Engineer

Feb 2019 - Oct 20202

  • Wrote middleware to flexibly provide authentication to multiple microservices with diverse security requirements
  • Developed a new realtime cryptocurrency prime brokerage app with > 30 updates/sec. Wrote features including price discovery, aggregated order book, trade execution, and custody services
  • Built frontend using Vue.js, Webpack, & TypeScript, creating configurable and reusable component library
  • Used D3.js to make interactive visualizations. Evaluated and implemented libraries for advanced financial charting
  • Built backend API in Python with Flask for order management, connecting to Cassandra and Postgres databases
  • Implemented production and development CI/CD pipelines using GitLab DevOps tools
  • Wrote unit tests in Jest with component snapshots to provide test coverage for critical app functionality

Shift Markets, New York, NY

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Frontend Engineer

Feb 2019 - Oct 20202

  • Built a front end for a full-featured cryptocurrency exchange platform with the ability for traders to place orders
  • Designed UI features in JavaScript with React that render financial data supplied by the back end via websockets
  • Developed in a Reactive architecture using RxJS to program functionally in an observer and iterator pattern
  • Styled front end features in CSS and SASS designed to utilize both wide screen and mobile user experiences

Lee Spring Company, New York, NY

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Quality Control Manager

Feb 2019 - Oct 20202

  • Managed the quality department in five manufacturing facilities, interfacing daily with international divisions

Freelance Projects

Everything is Everything

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Review site featuring over 200 bagel shops across the five boroughs.

everythingiseverything.nyc

  • Implements a custom location map using the Google Maps API which supports user interaction
  • Sources client data via CMS and builds static site with reviews and visualizations made with D3
  • Implements a Continuous Deployment pipeline with git hook to initiate build on server

Highley Varlet

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Blogging site chronicling a weekly marathon-length hikes through NYC.

highleyvarlet.com

  • Site built in Gatsby which supports an updating feed and individual post pages managed through Netlify CMS

Education

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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BS in Electrical Engineering

May 2013

Hobbies

Cycling

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Completed solo bicycling trip from Los Angeles to New York City

April 2014 - June 2014

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