Resume

Judah R. Wright


Professional Summary

Building reliable systems, solving complex infrastructure challenges, and helping teams scale through technical leadership.

Professional Experience


Honestly

Lead Support Engineer August 2023 – Present

  • Executed a seamless migration for a gov/edu client, moving their WordPress backend from an unstable managed provider to an in-house AWS-native solution.
  • Coordinated the software development lifecycle for web technologies, including WordPress, .NET, Ruby On Rails, NodeJS, and custom solutions.
  • Ensured coverage and technical capabilities for 12+ direct reports.
  • Collaborated on scalability and right-sizing projects, enabling clients to leverage compute more efficiently.

LOFT

Lead Support Engineer March 2023 – August 2023

  • Successfully replaced aging reporting infrastructure with a purpose-built platform.
  • Managed updates and maintenance for several dozen web properties.
  • Engaged with agency partners to leverage all resources available at the lowest cost.

LOFT merged with Honestly in the summer of 2023.

Masters Touch Woodworking

Vendor Management February 2020 – September 2021

  • Custom-built a vendor and inventory management portal to track tens of thousands of stock items and create inventory projection reports.
  • Utilized PHP, Laravel, and Vue.js on several internal projects.
  • Designed and deployed a scalable intranet network infrastructure using Cisco and Unifi equipment.
  • Administered Linux servers hosting a PBX, web services, and job scheduling.

Peachtree LLC

CTO March 2019 – August 2020

  • Managed Linux server infrastructure supporting thousands of unique visitors a day.
  • Custom-built a regression-based machine learning model to predict the actions of users.
  • Wrote a library used in a geographically distributed data analysis ingest tool.
  • Designed reporting functionality used by several local renowned marketing agencies.
  • Developed data scraping and analysis pipelines to taxonomize web events.

Doubleberry Interactive

Contract Developer January 2017 – February 2020

  • Used modern development practices to bring legacy web applications current.
  • Provided technical support for both Windows and Linux-based servers.
  • Utilized jQuery, Vue.js, and various Geocoding/Geo-Completion JavaScript libraries.
  • Worked on an inventory management and vendor portal for dozens of users using Laravel 5.3
  • Developed a RESTful API for San Jamars new mobile app with Laravel 5.4

Goetz Results

Developer / Tech Support May 2016 – August 2016

  • Supported legacy Laravel 4.2 and WordPress 3.x websites.
  • Administered Windows Server 2003 – 2012, CentOS 5, and Debian 6-7 servers.
  • Aided in the setup and maintenance of Virtual Private Servers through AWS.
  • Upgraded and maintained a Laravel application to automate job creation and file transfers between Harley Davidson and Teuterburg Inc.

Wovax LLC

Lead Web Developer October 2014 – November 2015

  • Developed an API using centralized token-based authentication systems in PHP.
  • Designed, documented, and implemented REST APIs and their consuming components.
  • Developed with WordPress and Drupal using PHP, MYSQL, HTML, and JavaScript.
  • Created, delivered, and maintained highly-available servers powering dozens of mobile applications, used by hundreds of active users daily.

Moscow School District

Network Technician June 2013 – September 2013

  • Deployed scalable and highly available network solutions with Cisco hardware, using gigabit copper and 10G fiber-optic interfaces.
  • Worked on a tight schedule with other staff members on planned upgrades and renovations to the network infrastructure.
  • Took part in replacing our Dell servers with newer models that better fit our needs, as well as upgraded all Windows XP machines to Windows 7.