Evan Agee
Full-Stack Developer specializing
in JavaScript and React
Hey, I’m Evan Agee (as in Nicolas Cagey) and I’m a full-stack web developer and Webby Award Honoree with over 20 years of experience. One of my key differentiators is that I started my career as a designer and possess a unique combination of design and development skills. I’ve worked on many different tech stacks over the years but right now I’m focused on React and NextJS. I’ve spent the better part of the last 20 years working remotely and find I thrive in that environment, so I’m currently only interested in fully-remote roles.
Soft Skills
Self-Motivated, Encourager and Motivator, Quick Learner, Diligent and Disciplined, Easygoing and Patient
Tech Skills
JavaScript, TypeScript, React, NextJS, Vite, Vue, HTML/CSS/SCSS/postcss, webpack/babel, TailwindCSS, WordPress, Github / Github Actions, Contentful, Firebase, PHP, Ruby / Rails, AWS, SQL, Node, GraphQL, Prisma, Docker, MongoDB, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Figma, Cloudinary
Awards & Achievements
- 2016 Webby Award Honoree in the Not for Profit category for my work on the Gateway Church Annual Report
- I'm the creator and maintainer of the Vuejs Wordpress Starter Theme, a VueJS starter for those wishing to develop headless WordPress applications.
- I pride myself on being able to accomplish tasks efficiently and faster than the majority of devs I've worked with.
- I hold an A.S. degree in Computer Graphics Technology from Purdue University. Early in my career I was a "web designer" which means I spent most of my day in Photoshop slicing PSDs and the rest of the day in Dreamweaver.
- Back in the early 2000's I operated one of the first ever horror movie databases on the internet. It was called Living-Dead.com and for a period of time was THE home of horror movies on the web.
- I’ve spent a good portion of my career as the sole developer on a large number of projects. I consider myself a full-stack engineer.
- During my time at FedEx I was responsible for a feature that led to their highest month of affiliate revenue on ShopRunner.com.
- I developed a CMS platform as part of a 2-person team that was eventually purchased by a tech company for a substantial bid.
- I’ve never been fired from a position since I started my career in 2001.
- Early in my career I debugged JavaScript functionality in Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, before jQuery existed, so I’m persistent.
Employment History
AcreTrader
Frontend Developer
Fayetteville, AR • Jan 2022 — Jul 2023
Remote
- Responsible for architectural decisions and implementation for various teams.
- Led multiple efforts to improve performance, accessibility, and implement engineering best practices for the platform while balancing tech debt with new feature delivery.
- Focused on React/NextJS and Vuejs frontend with django backend.
- Helped decrease customer acquisition cost by 30%.
Memory.Net
Front-end Developer
San Jose, CA • Apr 2021 — Present
RemoteContract
- Lead front-end engineer owning and supervising all frontend development for the E-Commerce platform
- Responsible for project planning, technical/architectural decisions as well as implementation
- Interfaced directly with product owners to ensure completed features met all acceptance criteria
- Managed large scale caching efforts to ensure enterprise performance with a large data set.
Gateway Church
Web Application Developer
Southlake, TX • Apr 2020 — Present
RemoteContract
- Worked as part of the Gateway Church development team on a variety of apps specializing in JavaScript, Vue and Rails applications.
- Responsible for planning multiple complex integrations with 3rd party services.
- Developed a custom ecommerce event platform which allowed users to register for a live event and granted them access to a live stream.
- Worked on a number of platforms built on Next.js/React and Vuejs. Notable examples are: a large integration with the YouTube API to display live services and on-demand content on their web experience, an integration with the Brightcove video streaming platform for both on-demand and live streaming content which also included Okta authentication.
- Developed a Contentful-based publication platform which allowed them to publish “devotionals” or chronological content to be read by members. The app tracked user progress as they make their way through each devotional. The app also featured extensive animations using framer-motion, offline client data storage and GraphQL queries to manage the amount of data coming from Contentful.
KSW Industries
Front-end Developer
Redding, CA • Aug 2020 — Apr 2021
RemoteContract
Worked as part of a small team of developers on a variety of Rails and React projects.
EFT Analytics / Koch Industries
Senior Developer
Wichita, KS • Apr 2020 — Aug 2020
RemoteContract
Worked on the product team responsible for an enterprise energy management application developing new features, bug fixes and unit tests. We worked on a Docker / C# / Nuxt / Vuejs stack.
Carb Manager
Web Application Developer
Jan 2019 — May 2019
RemoteContract
In 2019 I worked with a small team of developers to rebuild CarbManager, a nutrition tracking app with over 3 million active users. It is a Vue app with a Firebase backend but also had several integrations and i18n. We also used Storybook.
Beanstalk Digital
Senior Developer
Dallas, TX • Feb 2018 — Apr 2020
Remote
- Beanstalk Digital is a passionate group of highly-skilled developers, designers and marcomm pros building amazing applications. I’m responsible for planning and building a large majority of our client websites using JavaScript, WordPress and other technologies.
- Oversaw the development of the majority of web development projects.
- Responsible for managing and mentoring other developers.
- Single-handedly developed many projects from conception to launch.
- Custom PHP WordPress theme and plugin development
10up
Senior Front-End Engineer
Mar 2018 — Jun 2018
Remote
- During my time at 10up I worked on several large-scale WordPress-based applications. I worked with a few notable clients including NPR affiliate WAMU (home of Diane Rehm) and Facebook.
- Developed complex custom PHP / WordPress themes and plugins.
- Primary focus was on headless WordPress. Our goal was to keep WordPress as the primary CMS but have a completely decoupled front-end for performance and security concerns.
Gateway Church
Senior Developer
Southlake, TX • Feb 2012 — Feb 2018
I have a passion for equipping the Church with powerful, state-of-the-art tools to help them serve their congregations and the world. Gateway was the perfect place for me to put that passion to work! Working with an amazing team of developers we produced award-winning work that we were incredibly proud of.
- Responsible for a large majority of web projects, including GatewayPeople.com and most of our conference websites.
- Helped build Gateway Network, our apostolic resource network.
- Helped introduce the development team to a modern dev workflow and current technologies.
- Received a nearly perfect annual review every year.
- Won a Webby award for my work on the Annual Report website.
G2 Technology
Senior Developer
San Jose, CA • Sep 2008 — Jul 2011
RemoteContract
- Leader of a small group of web developers.
- Developed a PHP-based CMS platform with direction from product owners.
- Designed the UI/UX for and architected a state-of-the-art content management platform that helped turn one of our websites into the #1 leading site in the industry and on Google in months, not years.
- Architected a large content delivery platform that housed millions of products and included a custom shopping cart system with complex shopping features such as “Make an Offer” and bulk product data management.
AuctionFloor.com
Lead Web Developer
Indianapolis, IN • Feb 2007 — Aug 2007
RemoteContract
- AuctionFloor.com was focused on becoming the standard for real-time online auctions. I worked as part of a small team of two developers to develop the platform that allowed auctioneers (or their assistants) to manage their on-location auction with online bidders. It was a cool project!
- Helped redesign and redevelop a robust web-based online auction management system.
- Assisted with company rebranding.
- Made specific suggestions for ways to solve complex technical problems the company had been facing with their software platform.
- Made use of multiple web technologies to give auctioneers the ability to accept live online bids for their on-site, real-time auctions.
Summersault Website Development
Web Designer
Richmond, IN • Jul 2000 — Feb 2007
- Summersault was my first dev job and I loved it. I learned so many things during my time there working on countless client projects. In those days a “web designer”, as we were called, I was responsible for creating design comps for each project and iterating on this with client feedback. Once the design was approved I would then begin building out the front end.
- Responsible for the design, development, quality assurance and launch of the majority of projects.
- Responsible for the design of all marketing materials
- Javascript/AJAX-based interface design/development