Resume

Teleport Atlas (coding challenge) teleport-atlas.vercel.app

• Built Teleport's Atlas product landing page from a Figma spec in Next.js (App Router), going from nothing to a working page with Canvas product animations in about twelve hours.
• Scored a perfect axe run with zero WCAG 2.1 AA issues and a 100 Lighthouse mobile result across performance, accessibility, best practices, and SEO.
• Cut page weight from about 2.5MB to roughly 950KB, including roughly an 89% drop in the font payload from subsetting with fonttools and Brotli.
• Hardened the build and supply chain with SHA-pinned GitHub Actions, a pnpm cooldown and allowlist against a frozen lockfile, and escaped JSON-LD.
• Moved the page onto Sanity as a headless CMS afterward, with visual editing and a publish webhook. Source is public on GitHub.

Seismic seismic.com

• Two 1,000-page migrations: WordPress to WordPress in 2022 and WordPress to Sitecore in 2025, keeping the site live throughout each cutover.
• Served as QA triage lead across a cross-functional team of 20+ during a high-pressure rebrand sprint.
• Migrated from TranslatePress to WPML for multilingual support and trained content staff and EMEA regional teams on the new workflow. The 2022 relaunch drove a 50% increase in site visitors.
• Improved page load times from roughly 3s to 2s across both migration cycles.

Republic Ranches republicranches.com

• Integrated the Google Maps JavaScript API to build an interactive property map for filtering and searching.
• Added real-estate schema markup to property detail pages for greater search relevance.
• Reduced the image library from 20GB to 8GB by automating WebP conversion and compression on every upload, improving load times from roughly 3 to 5s down to 1 to 2s.

San Antonio Legal Services Association sa-lsa.org

• Developed custom PHP Gutenberg blocks so admins could add UI components without code.
• Integrated the Volunteer Hub API for clinic opportunities serving families in need of pro bono services.
• Configured the Legal Server API with WP All Import to schedule data into a custom post type, surfacing pro bono cases for lawyers with a filtering UI.

Core WP github.com/Blake-C/core-wp

• Built a WordPress starter framework for Full Site Editing block themes with a Docker-first local workflow and modern build tooling.
• Standardizes local PHP, NGINX, and MariaDB services via Docker so development matches production from day one.
• Integrates ESLint, Prettier, and PHPCS to enforce code quality across projects.

Exit Intent Popup Plugin github.com/Blake-C/wp-exit-intent-popups

• Built a WordPress plugin for exit-intent and timed popups with A/B testing, impression tracking, and a per-popup conversion dashboard with CSV export.
• Implemented exit-intent detection for desktop (cursor exit) and mobile (scroll-reversal heuristic) with six configurable position modes.
• Added GA4 event tracking for impressions, CTA clicks, and dismissals.
• Built the front end in vanilla JavaScript to WCAG 2.1 AA, with ARIA dialog attributes, a keyboard focus trap, ESC support, and a reduced-motion fallback.

DigitalBlake.com (Self-Employed) July 2025 to Present

Senior Web Developer

• Applied AI-assisted development workflows across a Next.js and Sanity project, native macOS tooling, and digitalblake.com.
• Built native macOS applications, directing AI tooling through the Swift implementation and publishing write-ups on the results, including a SwiftUI and AppKit UI performance comparison.
• Built and maintain digitalblake.com on Jekyll with a Docker-isolated toolchain, esbuild, inlined critical CSS, and subset WOFF2 fonts, deployed by GitHub Actions running HTMLProofer and Snyk, with a gitleaks pre-commit scan and a pnpm release-age gate guarding the supply chain.
• Researched and published on WCAG 2.1 AA conformance testing and on which WCAG version the European Accessibility Act, ADA Title II and III, and Section 508 each require.

Seismic February 2022 to July 2025

Web Developer, promoted to Senior Web Developer

• Served as development lead for the WordPress-to-Sitecore migration, collaborating with design, brand, content, and SEO specialists and joining leadership meetings to resolve technical conflicts.
• Acted as the technical point of escalation to align stakeholders across teams during high-stress, timeline-constrained delivery sprints.
• Documented workflows and technical setup for long-term knowledge handoffs across security, leadership, and privacy teams.
• Led post-business-hour code deployments and quality assurance for seismic.com.
• Onboarded a team of 6 contractors on the operating procedures of seismic.com for developers and producers.

Gray Digital Group January 2014 to February 2022

Web Developer

• Worked with account executives, project managers, and designers to scope client requests and estimate the time to research, design, develop, test, and launch projects.
• Trained clients in groups of 1 to 6 on the admin UI for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Sitefinity.
• Quality assured sites for browser support, HTML validation, script errors, usability, and build quality.

DigitalBlake.com (Freelance) January 2013 to February 2022

Web Developer

• Built a WP Foundation 6 coding library to keep code consistent across teams.
• Developed a mobile mega-menu plugin that generates a horizontally scrollable navigation.
• Created a JavaScript NPM module using the YouTube API for custom embedded playlists.
• Programmed Joomla 3.x social-sharing modules without relying on JavaScript.

PPDG, Inc. February 2012 to January 2013

Web Designer and Developer

• Coordinated the migration of all sites to a new server running the latest PHP, MySQL, and Apache.
• Designed and built an employee portal on Joomla 2.5 for 600+ field employees.
• Trained a corporate office of 30+ employees on the operation and business rules of the portal.
• Designed and built Plaza Lecea Event Center website on Joomla 2.5.