Curtis Black
Full Stack Software Engineer And Team Lead - Zangerine at Descartes Systems Group
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCurtis Black is a Full Stack Software Engineer and team lead with 11 years of experience building and modernizing SaaS systems, currently driving architecture and delivery for Zangerine at Descartes Systems Group. He combines hands-on PHP and JavaScript development (including upgrades from PHP 5.7 to 8.1 and MySQL 5.7 to 8.0) with practical DevOps—implementing GitHub Actions CD pipelines and AWS-based infrastructure for resilience and secure logging. Curtis has led and mentored small engineering teams, negotiated contract renewals and raises, and delivered marketplace integrations such as Shopify connectors. His background in business administration and early hands-on roles in web design and logistics supervision gives him a pragmatic, customer-focused approach to solving product and operational challenges. He also runs a real estate investment venture, demonstrating entrepreneurial initiative and negotiation experience beyond engineering.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Business Administration Entrepreneurship, Bachelor's Degree Business Administration Entrepreneurship at University of Nevada-Las VegasHigh School Diploma Mathematics, High School Diploma Mathematics at Cimarron-Memorial Highschool
Github Skills (35)
validation9
material-ui9
react9
rest-api9
sass-framework8
rapid8
prototyping8
php8
material-design8
rapid-development8
nette8
javascript8
react-components8
cakephp8
form-builder8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
curtisblack2004/CakePHP-Full-Calendar-Plugin
Apr 2016 - Feb 2019
Event Calendar Plugin for CakePHP 3.x
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 10 months
calendarphpcalendar-pluginevent-calendarcakephp
foundation/foundation-sites
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Quickly create prototypes and production code for sites that work on any kind of device.
Contributions:1 comment, 2 issues in 1 month
cssjavascriptframeworkprototypingprototypes
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