Summary
Dave Collins is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years delivering full‑stack web solutions for both enterprise and agency clients, including work on high-visibility sites for Estée Lauder, MAC Cosmetics, and Bumble and Bumble. He brings deep hands‑on expertise across .NET (Sitecore, MVC), PHP (Laravel, Magento), modern JavaScript frameworks (Vue, D3, AngularJS), and responsive/mobile web tooling, plus strong CSS preprocessing and Linux/UNIX operations. His career spans senior roles in industry and agency settings and recent contracts where he balances architecture, implementation, and client-facing delivery. A former US Navy Electronic Warfare Technician, he applies disciplined systems thinking and signal‑analysis rigor to troubleshooting complex web platforms. Based in Canton, Ohio, he now focuses on freelance contracting where he pairs legacy CMS modernization with contemporary front‑end and API-driven stacks.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Akron