Luka Puharic

profile

Front End developer with more than 15 years of experience and expertise in HTML, CSS, JS, SEO.

summary

Specialized in web responsive & mobile first approach, automated & enhanced workflows, best practices, and coding standards. I am quick to grasp new ideas and concepts and to develop innovative and creative solutions to problems

experience

New York, New York
July 2019 - Dec 2019

CNBC

Software Developer

Front end developer - Select brand under CNBC (July - Sept)

Part of the Video Monetization team working on CNBC video related frontend tasks (Oct - Dec).

Technologies: ReactJS, GraphQL, SCSS, SEO

New York, New York
May 2019 - present

Econify LLC

Software Developer

Technologies: ReactJS, GraphQL, SCSS

New York, New York
June 2017 - February 2019

Verizon Media

Associate Manager / Senior Software Engineer | Aol.com

Platform consolidation and modules migration between yahoo.com and aol.com. CI/CD support for Yahoo.com Lifestyle, Entertainment, and Sports channels: detecting, identifying and resolving issues in the CI/CD process

Technologies: Screwdriver, Jenkins, Node.js, AWS, Docker, Kuberneties, Marko, HTML5, JS, SCSS, Gulp, Yarn, proprietary test tools

New York, New York
February 2016 - June 2017

AOL

Associate Technical Manager | Core Products

Managed AOL Webmail team in Palo Alto and aol.com FE team in NYC responsible for content migration-related projects.

Change Management lead: gatekeeper for aol.com deployment process, driving all aol.com deployments to production

New York, New York
January 2015 - February 2016

AOL

Senior Software Engineer | Core Products

CMS: worked closely with stakeholders, editors and product people to build a CMS to support aol.com based on users requirements

Integration with third-party technologies like AWS services, automated deployment tasks using Gulp, SEO optimisation, Google AMP implementation, GitHub versioning system, Jenkins automated job

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, HTML5, JS, SCSS, Gulp, Yarn, AWS, Jenkins, Google AMP

Dublin, Ireland
August 2014 - January 2015

AOL Ireland

Senior Software Engineer | Brand Group

Content Migration: worked closely with product managers, design team and other dev team members to migrate various sites that eventually became main channels under aol.com: Kitchendaily.com > www.aol.com/food, Stlyelist.com > www.aol.com/style, Dailyfinance.com > www.aol.com/finance, Games.com > www.aol.com/games

Technologies: HTML5, JS, SCSS, GruntJS, MySql

Dublin, Ireland
April 2011 - July 2014

AOL Ireland

Software Engineer | Media and Vertical Engineering

Built and maintained many AOL content-driven sites (AOL Industry, AOL Entertainment, AOL Music) using proprietary AMP platform (AOL Media Platform).

Technologies: PHP & twig, HTML5, JS, SCSS, GruntJS

Dublin, Ireland
October 2009 - March 2010

AOL Ireland

Web Technologist

Built and develop International AOL Money&Finance web sites based on specific requirements gathered on regular weekly meetings and demos. Worked as a part of the international and global team located all over the world (US, India, UK, Germany).

Technologies: XHTML, CSS, PHP, XML, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, PhotoShop, Cross browser testing, SEO

Dublin, Ireland
May 2007 - February 2009

Version 1

IT Consultant / PHP Developer

Part of the team working on development of proprietary PHP Core Framework Application. The content management system examination of the My Version 1 web portal. Internal timesheet system development.

Technologies: Zend Studio, PLSQL Developer, PHP 4, Oracle 10g, V1 Core Framework Application, CSS, LDAP, CVS, Bugzilla

Rijeka, Croatia
November 2001 - November 2006

RIS

IT Consultant

Management and development of the new web sites, with the specific requirements provided from clients. Coordinating closely with Account Executives, actively soliciting new clients and nurturing existing client accounts, ensuring their needs and requirements were not only accommodated but surpassed. Training clients in subsequent website maintenance. Initiating a company-wide changeover to a much faster ISP with enhanced technical support.

Rijeka, Croatia
January 2000 - May 2006

Freelance

Web Design & Development

Creation and maintenance of many Web sites and applications for corporate, non-profit and other clients. Performed the full spectrum of Web-related tasks, including rapid prototyping, design and layout, graphics creation and optimisation

education

Griffith College Dublin
2013

Master of Science (MSc), Applied Digital Media

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka
2003

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology & Pedagogy

skills

Web Development 10
Mobile First 10
Responsive Web Design 10
Agile Methodologies 9
Search Engine Optimisation 9
Process Automation 8
HTML5 10
CSS 10
JavaScript 9
jQuery 8
Node.js 8
Express.js 7
AWS 6
Docker 6
Jenkins 5
Kuberneties 5
MySQL 8
SQL 9

interests

Currently actively learning and working on side projects with modern technologies: ReactJS, Redux, Styled Components and GraphQL