Fred Every

Led full-stack development for EL Education's learning platform, optimizing content management workflows and reducing editorial turnaround time by 40% through custom Wagtail extensions and integrations with Salesforce and Stripe.

Re-architected MIT Media Lab's CMS and developed Typester, an open-source WYSIWYG editor, which was adopted site-wide, reducing formatting inconsistencies and editor complaints by over 80%.

Modernized the itsalmo.st platform with a Vue/Nuxt frontend and Stripe payments, launching monetization features that converted 8% of monthly users into paying customers.

Maintained critical infrastructure across AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda) with CI/CD via GitHub Actions and Docker, ensuring 99.99% uptime across production environments.

Contributed to the award-winning A24 Films app and marketing platforms, achieving 2x faster page loads and securing two Webby Awards in 2024 through Python/Django and Vue/Nuxt development.

Led a comprehensive frontend re-architecture, replacing Vue.js components with Django server-rendered templates, which improved load times and SEO by over 40% for a major online platform.

Resolved critical performance bottlenecks stemming from excessive client-side rendering, significantly enhancing application speed and responsiveness.

Delivered a fully responsive redesign across desktop, tablet, and mobile platforms, ensuring a consistent and optimized user experience for a broad audience.

Directed the full development lifecycle of a custom Android launcher, leveraging Kotlin and Java to implement native ad tech and dynamic lockscreen overlays for enhanced monetization capabilities.

Architected and built a React Native dashboard for comprehensive account management and user engagement, seamlessly integrating secure Firestore and reward-based video ad support.

Spearheaded architectural decisions, feature planning, and CI/CD pipeline setup utilizing Firebase and Google Play infrastructure, ensuring robust and scalable production deployments.