Jack Nugent
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, 6+
Years
- Designed and implemented full-stack scalable solutions for in-house
email-sending provider, processing 7M+ daily emails:
- Led React frontend modernization across multiple
applications, independently delivering large-scale UI features and
improvements.
- Rearchitected Node.js and Java
email-personalization backends, reducing codebase by 50% and integrating
with AWS and MongoDb, cutting
infrastructure costs by $100k/year.
- Proposed scalable architecture plans, writing technical docs with
diagrams and cost projections, and presented the vision to the broader
engineering org to drive alignment and execution.
- Led architectural and infrastructure optimization initiatives,
including right-sizing EC2 instances, migrating to serverless, and
streamlining email send processing, reducing AWS and MongoDB costs by
over $77k/year.
- Gathered and implemented requirements for transforming outdated
assembly-line Excel applications into React applications.
- Developed and maintained C# GraphQL schema targeting SQL and MongoDb
databases.
- Added modern technologies including front-end only architecture,
end-to-end JavaScript testing, and Docker containerizing.
- Rewrote front-end for Climate Changemakers Act, an accessible way to
conduct informed climate correspondence with your Members of
Congress.
- Led website front-end implementations in React and Angular.
- Rewrote several websites including a recruiting website, state
agency website, and payment tracking service.
- Modernized legacy WordPress platform using Headless WordPress and
Gatsby improving performance.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Creator of a film analysis YouTube channel (900k+ subscribers),
analyzing scenes and thematic elements across a wide range of
movies.
EDUCATION