Drew Norman
Senior Full Stack Developer
Profile
Senior full stack developer with more than nine years of experience building and operating web applications. Lead projects from technical design through implementation and release, with strengths in API integration, interactive interfaces, maintainable architecture, and reliable delivery. Experienced in guiding developers and translating complex client needs into practical products.
Professional Experience
FoxFuel Creative · Remote
Senior Full Stack Developer
– Present
- Lead implementation of client web products across design, content, application logic, integrations, and deployment, making technical decisions that keep features maintainable as requirements evolve.
- Build reusable interface and content systems for responsive sites, giving editors flexible controls while keeping presentation consistent across pages and devices.
- Develop data-rich experiences, including interactive property maps, provider directories, reviews, and reports, with careful handling of missing data and changing viewport or interaction states.
- Design integrations between external services and internal data flows, including import workflows, API-backed listings, and document generation.
- Introduce repeatable local setups, content seeding, build checks, and staged deployment recipes across client repositories to make development and releases easier to reproduce.
- Work with designers and stakeholders to refine responsive behavior and accessibility, review implementation details, and resolve production issues through release.
Full Stack Developer
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- Built and maintained client web applications and REST APIs in PHP and JavaScript, spanning campaign tools, interactive reports, content platforms, and custom business workflows.
- Integrated Google, Shopify, Stripe, and Instagram services, and implemented SAML single sign-on across PHP applications.
- Created data visualizations, automated data maintenance jobs, and document-generation tools, including PDFs assembled from user-submitted information.
- Introduced JavaScript and PHP unit-test scaffolding, improved Git workflows, and supported staging, releases, and production troubleshooting across multiple applications.
Selected Engineering Work
Healthcare data integration
Built provider import and specialty mapping jobs around an external directory API, then connected the resulting data to web listings and generated facility and specialty PDF guides from managed content.
Interactive property exploration
Developed responsive property-map interactions across city selection, detail panels, animation, and linked property lists; refined resizing, touch and trackpad behavior, and missing-image states.
Reusable content and media systems
Created editor components and shared asset-rendering patterns across client sites, supporting flexible page composition and responsive images with modern formats and fallbacks.
Earlier Experience
Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Western Kentucky University · Bowling Green, KY
Full Stack Developer
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- Designed and maintained a customizable PHP application framework used to deliver web tools for university programs.
- Built authorized APIs, interactive reports, and dynamic PDF forms and certificates from multiple institutional datasets.
- Trained and supervised student developers, led code reviews, and established conventions and testing practices for the team.
- Collaborated on classroom technology, including automated whiteboard capture and a browser extension connecting transcription hardware to a web application.
Technical Strengths
- Applications
- TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, React, Vue, Node.js, Laravel, WordPress
- Interfaces
- Responsive HTML/CSS, accessibility, Tailwind CSS, Sass, GSAP, data visualization
- Data & APIs
- REST APIs, third-party integrations, MySQL, Redis, SAML, webhooks
- Delivery
- Git, CI/CD, automated testing, Docker/Podman, Nix, Google Cloud, Azure
Education
BS, Computer Science · Western Kentucky University · Honors College · 2017