Bruce Ingalls

Bruce Ingalls | Tampa Bay, FL 34652 | https://bingalls.github.io SUMMARYFull Stack Engineer with over 10 years of PHP / Laravel and JavaScript. A founding member of NY Web Performance group certified in security. These skills ensured critical needs demanded at major national websites I joined. Innovated testing such as QA test plans & CI/CD, improving agility in these enterprise systems. Brought fresh responsive mobile UX to delight customers. Experience includes media, e-commerce & health. ⛭ Skills over 10 years & recent ⭐️⭐️Bootstrap; HTML5; SASS; TailwindCSS ⭐️⭐️JavaScript; jQuery; Node.js; TypeScript ⭐️⭐️Linux system admin; Bash; CI/CD; Git Flow ⭐️⭐️MySQL; Redis; OOP Object Oriented Programming ⭐️⭐️PHP8; Laravel / Symfony; LAMP ⛭ Skills under 10 years or less recent ⭐️Alpine; Livewire; React; Vue ⭐️Amazon AWS; Azure; Docker; Terraform; Vagrant ⭐️C; C++; C#; Dot Net; Java ⭐️DBA; DynamoDB; MongoDB; Oracle; SQL Server; etc ⭐️Testing: MSW; Pest; PhpUnit; Playwright; Postman; Selenium 👔 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 👔 Full stack engineer | Hotwire Communications | Fort Lauderdale, FL | 2022 – 2025 Laravel PHP8, NodeJS, React, Bootstrap for billing website of bulk ISP service across USA • Reduced >20 second home page load time to < 6 sec, critical to customer satisfaction. • Created UX tactics to replace customer support, enabling immediate self-service. • Automated tests in Playwright & Postman improved quality and time to market. • Resolved a long-standing API architectural fault, vexing others for years. Achieved ~10ms faster response, also passing a security audit. • Replaced PDF-lib with modern CSS, resulting in faster, maintainable code. Improved print UX for customers. 👔 Full stack consultant | Ingalls Consulting Co | New York, NY | 2012 – 2021 Laravel/PHP7, AWS, C#, Java, JavaScript, MongoDB, Node.js, React, Redis, Terraform, Vue Clients: Pearson, Consumer Reports, Helix, Play Sports Live, Katherine Gibbs School Industries: E-commerce, Finance, Media & Product Lifecycle Management • Led management communications, creating agile issue tracking, git-flow & CI/CD • Cached Consumer Reports pages, speeding from hours to < 6 sec. • Optimized testing speeds to triple performance. Sped every git commit for faster releases. • Delivered distributed sports betting game in months to meet season kickoff. • Refined communication skills by teaching classes. Included complex topics such as IT security. • Documented & automated Docker to onboard new techs from one week to one day. 👔 Full stack engineer | Cantor Fitzgerald | New York, NY | 2009 – 2011 PHP5, jQuery, Web Services for national food delivery e-commerce • Optimized PHP & SQL for 50% speed increase, or double traffic. • Adopted new CSS grid, reducing time to market by 15%, improving mobile usage. • Integrated ReST APIs: StrikeIron & NOAA. Ensured Authorize.net PCI/DSS compliance to enhance security. 🎓 EDUCATION Rochester Institute Of TechnologyComputer Science State University Of New PaltzB.S. Electrical Engineering 🐧 My Open Source Ubuntu's JDK package; GNU/Linux code; Log4PHP driver 🎓 Bilingual English, German, French. Certified Security+