Judah R. Wright
Professional Summary
Building reliable systems, solving complex infrastructure challenges, and helping teams scale through technical leadership.
Battle Creek MI, 49017
judahwright6@gmail.com
(208) 301 2414
https://judahwright.me/
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.
