About

Craig Dearden is a seasoned Frontend Engineer at AWS with over 7 years of relevant experience. He is highly skilled in architecting full stack apps and utilizing an array of new mobile and web technologies to implement them. Craig's work style is behavior-driven and iterative development with a focus on test and deployment automation. He is a collaborative team player who loves solving problems, especially when those solutions save people time. Currently working at Amazon, Craig's previous experience includes working as a Software Engineer for web and mobile apps. In this role, he engineered rich web and mobile apps using Javascript (ES6), AngularJS, React, and Redux for modular code. He designed delightful, responsive UI using HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, and SASS. Craig also created RESTful APIs with Node and Express, participated in code and technical design reviews, and designed and implemented SQL and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB with the Sequelize and Mongoose ORMs. He wrote unit and integration tests using Mocha, Chai, and Enzyme and automated deployment and testing using Gulp and npm. Craig's education history includes a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Materials Science and Engineering from UC Davis, Engineering from Santa Rosa Junior College, and Software Engineering from Hack Reactor. His tech stack includes Frontend, AWS, test, Mobile, Web, SQL, Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Javascript, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Redux, Integration, ui, and AngularJS. In summary, Craig Dearden is a highly skilled Frontend Engineer with a wealth of experience in developing rich web and mobile apps. He is a collaborative team player who enjoys solving problems and utilizing new technologies to implement solutions that save people time.