Alexander Kristiansen
Receptionist / Office Clerk / Technical Supporter
Experience
Receptionist / Office Clerk / Technical Supporter
4 Star Hotel
- Worked part time as receptionist, bartender, barista, and office clerk
- Learned and administered the hotel’s Drupal CMS and updated the website
- Became administrator for Property Management Software (PMS) and POS systems
- Held regular contact with payment service and card providers
Tester
Hotel
- Tested a redesigned Drupal-based hotel website and booking system
- Focused on conversion optimization and multi-device compatibility
Front-end Developer
Interior Design Company
- Created a Drupal theme and implemented the front end for an upscale interior design company
- Optimized images and overall site performance for a content-heavy site
Full-stack Developer
International Media Corporation
- Migrated large quantities of content from a legacy WordPress platform to Drupal 9 headless CMS using REST endpoints
- Wrote migration scripts
- Cleaned up content on operation-critical sites
- Developed editing features for the editorial staff
- Implemented new and updated existing REST endpoints
- Helped set up new sites in AWS
Primary technologies: Drupal 9, PHP, REST, Docker, AWS
SRE/DevOps Team Member
International Retail Company
Worked in an SRE/DevOps team focused on empowering application teams to improve performance and reliability
Built automated tooling to handle instrumentation of infrastructure, application code, and related services (databases, cache clusters, search engines)
Arranged and co-hosted observability-oriented workshops to help application developers understand application signals, reducing average response times by around 20% and lowering error rates on revenue-critical applications by 20–30%
Collaborated with other platform departments to improve end-to-end visibility across on-premises and cloud-hosted applications and customer-facing browser applications
Applied FinOps principles to ensure spending returned value to the company, cutting costs on cloud installations and monitoring software
Front-end Developer
Investment Association
- Implemented responsive designs and theming for a new website to improve user experience and conversions on the web store
- Collaborated with back-end developer creating new Drupal features
Web Developer
Large Corporation
- Participated in relaunch of corporate website based on an existing site
- Customized design and editor experience
- Maintained ongoing communication with stakeholders and design team to meet requirements
Full-stack Developer
Large International Retail Company
- Worked in a scrum team on the web shop (main website) with Drupal CMS and decoupled React front end
- Implemented new features
- Maintained both front end and back end systems
- Rolled out to new markets
- Converted Drupal rendering to server-side rendering with React and Drupal headless
Technologies: Drupal, React, PHP, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, SASS, CSS, Redux, Redux Toolkit, Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins, New Relic, Splunk
Full-stack Developer
Large International Retailer
- Focused on maintenance and performance improvements on multiple Drupal and React sites
- Performed in-application development and performance tweaks
- Executed DevOps-focused tasks: monitoring, CI/CD, and cloud hosting
- Product enhancements and bug fixes
- Migrated existing on-premises sites to containerized cloud hosting
- Identified and implemented performance and reliability improvements on sites
- Implemented logging and improved monitoring of critical applications
- Implemented deployment pipelines
Primary technologies: Drupal 10, PHP, Docker, AWS, React, Jenkins, New Relic
Front-end Developer
Large Retailer
- Improved quality of an existing custom POS codebase based on React and TypeScript
- Implemented new features
- Improved workflows around TypeScript code generation
Front-end Developer
Learning Management System Project
- Worked on a Drupal-based video streaming service for teaching
- Implemented designs and created a Drupal theme
- Built a custom interface to manage settings and improve editorial experience in the CMS
Front-end Developer
Municipality
- Created a flexible front end in Drupal 9 for several campaign sites
- Implemented extensive editing features enabling selection of color themes, layouts, and animations
Front-end Developer
National Newspaper
- Rewrote basic HTML templates and styling from a design agency to work in a Drupal context
- Enhanced the site with new features
Front-end Developer
Restaurant Management System Startup
- Implemented new features and dark mode
- Redesigned existing pages
- Improved handling of user roles in the front end
Front-end Developer
Reveal IT
- Implemented an SEO-friendly marketing website in React for two Danish hotels to drive traffic and increase online bookings
Front-end Developer
Reveal IT
- Developed front-end code in React for a custom booking engine based on a Drupal back end, to be rebranded and sold as a white label product
Front-end Developer
Standardization Organization
- Main front-end developer on a React application for searching and editing terms related to standards
- Handled extensive form handling and API communication for search, create, and update operations
- Ensured WCAG compliance: keyboard handling, screen reader compatibility, color contrast compliance
Front-end Developer
Youth Travel Agency
- Cleaned up and rewrote large portions of front-end code on a production site with bugs and inconsistencies
- Collaborated with back-end developer to improve usability and implement new design features
Summary
I am a capable full-stack developer with well-developed social and communication skills and have 7 years of full time experience with full-stack development on medium to large-scale Drupal and React websites.
I work as a remote consultant and I enjoy both working in teams and by myself.
Skills
Core Technologies
- Drupal 8, 9, And 10
- React.js
- Html5 / Twig
- Rest
- Css And Sass
- Oberservability And Monitoring
- Javascript / Typescript
- Accessibility/wcag
Skills Matrix
- Html5 (7 Years, Level 5)
- Css (7 Years, Level 5)
- Sass (7 Years, Level 5)
- Javascript (7 Years, Level 4)
- Jquery (6 Years, Level 4)
- React.js (7 Years, Level 4)
- Typescript (6 Years, Level 3)
- Drupal (6 Years, Level 4)
- Accessibility/wcag (4 Years, Level 3)
- Mysql (5 Years, Level 4)
- Php (6 Years, Level 4)
- Twig (6 Years, Level 4)
- Command Line (7 Years, Level 4)
- Macos (8 Years, Level 4)
- Rest Api (5 Years, Level 4)
- Docker (4 Years, Level 3)
- Git (7 Years, Level 5)
- Kubernetes (3 Years, Level 2)
- Jenkins (4 Years, Level 4)
- Ci/cd (3 Years, Level 3)
- Splunk (3 Years, Level 3)
- New Relic (3 Years, Level 4)
- Vue (1 Year, Level 1)
- Blazor (1 Year, Level 2)
- Aws (3 Years, Level 3)
- Linux (3 Years, Level 4)
- Ansible (3 Years, Level 4)
- Terraform (2 Years, Level 3)
Languages
Certifications & licenses
Certified Intermediate Barista
Speciality Coffee Association
Master Certificate In Hospitality Management
Cornell University
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