Aaron Ritchey

Aaron's Work with php

Projects: Text Cleaner Tool

Simplied workflows for colleagues by developing a tool to "clean" text (edit and format content) for the newspaper. I named this tool myself. 😁

Projects: High School Sports Database

My first large-scale project, single-handedly developing a web application to gather and display high school sports data at the dawn of Web 2.0.

Projects: Extension for Gravity Forms

To address the risk of losing sales leads, I developed a new feature in a web application to identify outdated email addresses. This streamlined an error-prone manual process from nine minutes to just a two-minute review.

Projects: Survey Tool Extension

Let the expansion of a Node/React survey-building framework, developing both new features and supporting documentation to reduce development time for new surveys and new survey types.

Projects: Unofficial Team Lead for App Migration

Proactively supported the coordination of a four-person team of developers to rebuild a React app in an entirely new technology stack.

Projects: Online Coding Challenges

An explanation of the breadth of experience in software development, commitment to ongoing learning, and accomplishments on various coding challenge websites.

Projects: Campaign Insight Tool for PaperG

To reduce troubleshooting time for developers, I designed and built an internal tool to examine client data and enable the support staff to answer common questions without developer assistance.

Experience: PaperG (now Thunder)

Web Developer on a startup's flagship SaaS product. Designed and implemented internal tools to streamline troubleshooting and reduce support inquries from customer service. Created the team’s first automated testing framework, and led documentation efforts that improved developer self-sufficiency.

Experience: Tacoma News Tribune

Web Developer promoted from intern after developing a high-impact interactive map that supported local news coverage. Built audience-facing web apps that boosted engagement and ad revenue, and developed a custom CMS to streamline the workflow of a six-person content team.

Experience: SEO Protocol

Lead Web Engineer managing 20+ WordPress sites for multiple clients. Partnered with clients on technical and budget-conscious feature planning, while developing new marketing features and converting mockups into responsive websites.

Experience: SAP-Concur

Web Developer building marketing features for 30+ corporate websites. Took initiative to lead the department's knowledge base, stepped in as temporary scrummaster, and created internal tools to address QA bottlenecks.

Blog: Better Reduce Example

Where I suggest better documentation for an oft-overlooked function.