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Justin Gerhart

Full-Stack Developer

Experienced Software Developer with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry.

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About Me

Hey there, my name is Justin! I am Software Developer who is passionate about using technology to solve problems.

I began my journey into Software Development in 2013 when I became interested in creating mods for Minecraft. I watched a few YouTube tutorials about Java programming and the rest is history!

After graduating from Penn State University, I began my professional career as a Full-Stack Developer at Vanguard. In just a few short years, I have had the opportunity to learn and grow tremendously as a Software developer.

Here is a breakdown of my current tech stack:

  • Javascript icon.
    JavaScript (ES6)
  • Typescript icon.
    TypeScript
  • HTML 5 icon.
    HTML
  • Sass icon.
    CSS/Sass
  • Java icon.
    Java
  • Angular icon.
    Angular
  • React icon.
    React
  • NextJS icon.
    NextJS
  • Node.js icon.
    Node.js
  • NGRX icon.
    NGRX
  • Amazon DynamoDB icon.
    AWS DynamoDB
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud icon.
    AWS ECS

Experience

The Vanguard Group.

Senior Application Engineer

The Vanguard Group (November 2021 - Present)

  • Continue to support development and ownership of several applications that are used by thousands of users daily to open new investment accounts.
  • Leverage technical space knowledge and experience to onboard and mentor new developers to the team.
  • Dedicated free time outside of normal work hours to improve web application deployment time by 26% (from 47 minutes to 35 minutes).
The Vanguard Group.

Application Engineer II

The Vanguard Group (December 2019 - November 2021)

  • Continued to support development and ownership of my team's web application.
  • Had an active hand the development of and ongoing support for a number of applications and web services leveraged by multiple teams in my department.
  • Supported the work needed to deploy these applications and web services to production. As well as handling on-call production support for these projects.
The Vanguard Group.

Application Engineer I

The Vanguard Group (July 2018 - December 2019)

  • Was actively involved the development of a modern web application to replace a legacy experience, all the way from ZBD to MVP.
  • Actively worked on the front-end and back-end development of this new web application.
  • Became an expert with the experimentation tool used by our team and took charge on the development of a number of A/B and A/B/C experiments for the application.
G3 Technologies, Inc.

Software Engineer Intern

G3 Technologies, Inc. (May 2017 - July 2017)

  • Wrote and maintained unit test code for automating website functionality, startup files and web console tests.
  • Helped to resolve defects that were discovered during the execution of these automated tests.
  • Contributed to an automated testing system developed with Python across five different products.
  • Participated in frequent code reviews and received trainings on software development best practices.

Projects

Cookie Cloner project icon.

Cookie Cloner

This is a simple clone of the popular web game, Cookie Clicker. This was a fun little project shared between myself and two other developers. The website was built using Angular.

Personal Website project icon.

Personal Website

This portfolio website itself! Built with NextJS, I share a little bit about myself, my experience, my projects, how to contact me and a copy of my current resume.

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