Vincent Astolfi

Senior Developer, Desarol LLC

I became a Senior Developer at Desarol starting in 2020, and worked as a Junior in years prior. My main role was to build and manage the website of a major hotel corporation called Sonesta.

We initially built the project in Drupal 7, which we moved to D8, and eventually into React. About a year after the project went headless, I was made the project lead and have been in that role ever since.

Notable accomplishments on this project:

• I helped to develop & implement a continuous integration workflow
• Vastly improved Accessibility, SEO Rankings, and the client's ability to A/B test new features
• Implemented major performance enhancements that were directly tied to revenue growth
• Improved backend content editing experience for hundreds of content editors
• Lead the initiative to combine two major React-based hotel sites into one codebase (including both CMS backends), after Sonesta aquired Red Lion Hotels.

To name some other notable projects I worked on and/or lead for Desarol:

• A large chain of cannabis dispensaries, mainly based in Southern California
• The Gary Johnson Presidential Campaign in 2016 (Libertarian Party Candidate)
• Various HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges & Universities), including Shorter College and Langston University
• The biggest Real Estate & Property Management company in Costa Rica, Surfing Nosara

Freelance Developer

I've been freelancing since 2012, working with various clients from a plethora of industries. Though my main source of work has obviously been through my previous experience entry, I love challenging myself to try new things & explore new technologies.

Some of my strong suits are:

• NodeJS, Express, React/React Native, utilizing frameworks such as Gatsby and NextJS for the front end
• TypeScript / Statically Typed Javascript
• Ubuntu Server management and maintainence, Shell Scripting, NGINX/Apache, Serverless Functions / Deployment
• GraphQL, MYSQL, Postgres, MongoDB, SQLite, Firebase
• Ruby, Java, Python, PHP
• Backend CMS such as WordPress, Drupal, Contentful
• Google Analytics / Tag Manager (I have an Advanced certificate from Google Analytics Academy), Google Optimize