Dwaine Simmons

Front End Developer

About

Dwaine Simmons is a passionate Front-End Engineer driven by a profound enthusiasm for tackling intricate challenges through code. His journey into engineering was fueled by a desire to collaboratively transform conceptual ideas into fully realized web applications, leading the way from inception to polished production.

Experience

Site Reliability Engineer

Oct 22 - Apr 23

As a Site Reliability Engineer, I implemented custom alerts for AppDynamics in MS Teams, enhancing alert observability by 30%. I also developed automated Python scripts for generating personalized email alerts, SLO reports, and documentation, leveraging AppDynamics Rest API data, while optimizing monitoring configurations and creating insightful dashboards for API, Kubernetes, and Browser RUM in various environments.

Front-End Engineer

Jun 20 - Sep 22

As a Front End Web Developer, I co-led a collaborative team to successfully achieve project goals and functionalities. I crafted internal Angular applications for the benchmark division, empowering the sales team to swiftly generate tailored benchmark reports. By architecting reusable components and streamlined logic for both Angular and React applications, I significantly reduced development time by 60%. I also revamped a custom benchmark report app with Angular Material, enhancing user experience by 90%, and designed a dynamic dashboard and favorites feature for an internal React application, replacing an outdated tool and projected to boost productivity by 60%.

APM Benchmark Support

Jan 18 - Jun 20

In my role as an APM Benchmark Support Engineer, I developed Synthetic tests using HTML, CSS, and custom Javascript within Dynatrace SaaS, while maintaining automated scripts to deliver performance insights to management and customers. I adeptly troubleshooted intricate HTTP scripts by leveraging Fiddler/Wireshark data and played a pivotal role in a large-scale test conversion project for the new Dynatrace SaaS platform, supporting 100+ clients with 2 daily technical tickets on average.

My Expertise

APM Benchmark
Engineer

Dynatrace, CSS, JavaScript

Front End
Engineer

React, Angular, JavaScript, BitBucket, Git, HTML, CSS

Site Reliability
Engineer

AppDynamics, Python, Azure, Rancher, Zabbix, Octopus, BitBucket