Dominic Balassone

Work Experience

Front-End Web Developer

October 2018 – Present

Lead team of over 5 developers by facilitating daily stand ups, distributing workload, and administrating code reviews
Collaborated with engineering, business and creative teams, defining and gathering requirements for the form and function of new features, delivering in biweekly sprint cycles
To support analytics, programmed data gathering requirements into features and site experiences, created supporting dashboards and human readable debug messages to demonstrate their integrity
(Heap Analytics, Google Analytics, Tag Manager)
Designed and implemented A/B test experiments for the Men’s Wearhouse website, launching over 100 tests and generating over $50 million in projected incremental revenue within a single year

Summer Immersion Program Instructor

June 2018 – August 2018

Lead instruction during a 7-week summer course for high-school girls, with a focus on inspiring girls to explore computer science and technology
Curriculum included Scratch, Python, robotics (Arduino), data science, and web development

Software Developer

November 2016 – April 2017

Architected and implemented a webapp for court reporters to manage file distribution to their clients
Installed hardware and deployed application at client site
Built with React, Redux, Node.js, Express, MongoDB

Full Stack Web Development Intern

January 2016 – June 2016

Full-stack implementation of a web application for real-time monitoring server diagnostics
Created an interactive analytics heatmap updates up to thousands of times a minute based on database inserts
Built with Amazon Web Services (S3, Lambda), RethinkDB, Node.js, D3.js, Socket.io

Cognitive Science BS, Computer Science BA

Fall 2013 – Summer 2016

Contributed an event detection algorithm to Smart Energy Disaggregation Systems (SEADS), a NSF funded project
Designed camera equipment for lip tracking as a research assistant in Alan Kawamoto's linguistics lab
Webmaster for the Cognitive Science Student Association (CSSA)
Completed upper division machine learning, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction courses