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Cari D. Burstein

Full Stack Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience working in the field. Primary experience is with PHP, Perl, Javascript/jQuery, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, HTML5, and CSS (mainly utilizing LAMP stack).

Have created personal projects in Laravel, React and Vue.

Work Experience

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Care2

2022 - 2023

Spearheaded a major PHP version upgrade from 7.3 to 8.2
Developed new features and improved and refactored existing functionality in a large PHP based object oriented codebase
Created and updated APIs to support frontend functionality
Migrated live database calls to message processors to improve efficiency of customer facing features
Conducted code reviews, wrote unit and integration tests and created detailed documentation

Full Stack Software Engineer

Conduent

2010 - 2021

Developed long-term projects for the SaaS health data product and backend using PHP (primarily Zend Framework utilizing object-oriented programming), MySQL and jQuery in a Linux Apache environment.
Led technical feasibility assessments and collaborative rapid prototyping for innovation using a hybrid Agile approach.
Organized and implemented a migration from outdated codebase to Zend Framework as part of technical debt remediation efforts while balancing near-term goals and strategy.
Provided guidance and mentoring to junior developers.
Developed and updated automation scripts for product related management and QA process.

Web Application Specialist

ePAC

2004 - 2008

Implemented PHP-based customer web ordering projects including user accounts, shopping carts and credit card transactions.
Developed backend administration scripts and tools including MySQL to FileMaker interface scripts

WebMaster

Planetweb

1999 - 2003

Coordinated design and organization of corporate site, Planetweb Dreamcast Portal, Intranet and other company web sites.
Developed and modified PHP and Perl tools for web applications such as support mail tracking, web-based FTP service and game search.
Administration of MySQL databases and Smartlist/Majordomo-based mailing lists.