Jamie Reevior

@hirozed
Web Dev by day, tech curious by night. Nice guy all the time.
Boston
he/him/his

PHP

DevOps

WordPress

Backend Developer

Web Developer

Linux

MacOS

Volunteer

College Dropout

Imposter Syndrome

Taco Bell Enthusiast

Mentor

Open Source

Windows

Laravel

Hackathon Organizer

Traveler

Coffee Lover

Self-Taught

Dog Dad

Plant Eater

Conference Organizer

Coding

GitHub user

Seen Some Sh*t

Human Kind

Dog Owner

Life Partner

Stressed

Full Snack Developer

Animal Rights

Vegetarian

Gen-X

Git

Ethics

Cat Daddy

Bunny dad

Admitter of Failures

Punstoppable

Amateur Chef

Dad

Antiracist

Failed in Public

Learn In Public

Black Lives Matter

Conference Attendee

Introvert

Night Owl

Docker

Web Developer. Recovering Computer Support Tech.

I try to help everyone in any way I can.

Resume

Feb 2022 - Present

Lead Developer, Boston University

Jun 2018 - Present

Web Developer III, Boston University

Aug 2015 - Jun 2018

Full Stack Developer, The Boston Globe

Sep 2011 - Aug 2015

Web Developer & DevOps , Oomph, Inc.

Links

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Portfolio

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Attended the excellent Laracon Online Winter 2022.

Took a Two Week Road Trip. It was the first time in a long time that I had a two week vacation. My partner and I drove from Boston to Michigan, stopping at a couple campgrounds along the way.

New England GiveCamp 2019 This year, I continued to help Pro Eco Azuero with their site, this time solo. I helped them with some bugs that we didn't squash the previous year.

New England GiveCamp 2018 My second year as a co-organizer. I was also the team lead for Pro Eco Azuero, an organization based out of Panama that works to reforest and educate the people in the Azu...

Things I’ve built

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BU's Diversity Learning Toolkit is live! This was a great project to work on. The Diversity team at BU are a fantastic group of people, and I was proud to work on this project. I provided the backe...

The redesigned hirozed.com is live! My personal site is new, improved, and awesome! Designed by Ashley, it is a single page that gives a quick overview of me, what I've been doing code-wise, my lat...

Redesigned website for BU Alumni & Friends launches. I was the lead backend developer for this project. The aspect of the site I'm most proud of is the post aggregation page template. I took advant...

STAT launches. I was one of the backend developers. We were able to build a site for award winning journalists. It is one of the projects I'm most proud of.

Articles and blogs

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I wrote about the Intersection Observer, a very powerful JavaScript API that allows interaction based on when an element crosses a point on the site.

I spoke at the Boston WordPress meetup on "Self Hosting Beyond Your WordPress Website"

I spoke at the Boston WordPress meetup on "Displaying Content on Your Terms with WP_Query"

I spoke at WordCamp Boston on "It's Never Too Soon to be Fitted for a Tinfoil Hat"