JT Porter

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JT Porter

Senior Software Engineer · Utah

jtporter9@gmail.comjtporter.devlinkedin.com/in/jtporter9github.com/jtporter9

Senior full-stack engineer with 10 years across early-stage startups, a Fortune 250, and enterprise SaaS. I build complex, interactive React interfaces on .NET backends, led a team of 7 to ship a consumer app, and was one of the first five employees at a startup that grew 7x and was acquired.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer, TimeShareWare

Aug 2022 – Present
  • Rebuilt the Room Matrix as a drag-and-drop board for assigning reservations to rooms, moving dates, and blocking rooms for maintenance, replacing a version with no drag-and-drop and recurring assignment and display issues.
  • Helped build out the reservation booking flow.
  • Go-to engineer for design and styling; redesigned many layers of the application and help maintain the shared design library.
  • Adopted Claude Code for AI-assisted development, sharply speeding up my delivery and learning and helping the team ship more.
  • Build React/Redux and Axios UI on a C# / .NET backend.

Software Engineer · Team Lead · Product, Readeo

Dec 2020 – May 2022
  • Led a team of 7 engineers — planning work, reviewing code, and unblocking.
  • Helped launch the Readeo app on the App Store and Google Play.
  • Acted as head of engineering for the company’s web and mobile products.

Software Engineer, Principal Financial Group

Aug 2019 – Dec 2020
  • Shipped updates to principal.com, the company’s public-facing site.
  • Helped build a company-wide design library.
  • Contributed to open-source Drupal 8 plugins.

Software Engineer, RetailMeNot · Rx Saver

Mar 2018 – May 2019
  • Helped migrate the frontend from Angular to React/Redux.
  • Raised frontend unit-test coverage by 40%.
  • Assisted the backend migration from .NET to Java/Spring.

Full-Stack Engineer, LowestMed

Jul 2016 – Mar 2018
  • One of five initial employees; helped grow monthly transactions from 7,000 to 50,000+.
  • Built autocorrecting search that dramatically improved results for users.
  • Integrated with multiple affiliate APIs across frontend, backend, and database.
  • Part of the team through the company’s acquisition by RetailMeNot.

Skills

Frontend
React · Redux · TypeScript / JavaScript · Axios · Drag-and-drop & interactive UI · Design systems · CSS / Sass
Backend
C# / .NET · SQL · Node
Tools & AI
Claude Code / AI-assisted development · Git · Jest
Other
Team leadership · Code review · Scrum / Agile · Fluent Spanish

Education

Utah Valley University, B.S. Web Design & Development

2018

Vice President, UVU Men’s Club Lacrosse

DevMountain, Web Development Immersive

2016

Most Improved Student; Most Technical Group Project