Camden Bickel

Seattle, WA·Available Sept 2020
cam@bickel.io
camden·cambickel.com

Education

Northeastern University

3.67 / 4.00 GPA
Sep 2015 - Present (Expected Spring 2020)
College of Computer & Information Science
Computer Science and Design, BS

Activities:

Ultimate Frisbee Club Team

Awards/Honors:

Dean's Scholar, Dean's List, Honors Program

Relevant Coursework:

Algorithms and Data, Human-Computer Interaction, Design Process Context/Systems

Experience

Google

Software Engineer Intern
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
  • Owned the development of a major (confidential) integration of Messages for Web using Angular
  • Optimized the emoji picker in Messages for Web to load 59% quicker

Drift

Software Engineer Co-op
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
  • Spearheaded the design, implementation, and iterative improvements of Drift's UI component library documentation site, saving an estimated 12+ hours of developer time per week across ~20 devs
  • Implemented the front-end experience for Drift's Marketo integration, which was ultimately presented at Adobe's Summit conference by the CEOs of Drift and Marketo
  • Collaborated with product managers and designers to conduct user research and usability testing

Amazon

SDE Intern
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
  • Developed a customer-facing React Native + Typescript app for a breakthrough Amazon Go project
  • Organized and executed a series of UX user tests using expectation testing and “think-aloud” tests
  • Designed multiple iterations of the core product using Sketch and Draw.io for use in user tests and presentations

HubSpot

Software Engineer Co-op
Jan 2018 - May 2018
  • Adapted the product's plugin system to use Redux, upon which I implemented the first interactive UI widget
  • Revamped the entire documentation for a major internal library used across HubSpot

Intuit

Software Engineer Co-op
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
  • Won People's Choice Award at office-wide hackathon with fully-functional MVP web app
  • Owned three major React + Redux dev tool projects, used daily by dozens of engineers across Intuit
  • Designed and implemented DepCop, a JavaScript tool that analyzes Webpack compilation output and uses static file parsing to enforce dependency restrictions. DepCop is now run before nearly every git push at Intuit

ClearSummit

Web Developer
May 2016 - Aug 2016
  • Implemented payment processing in Django and AngularJS using the Stripe API on the product
  • Integrated Django-Channels (WebSockets) with TuneRegistry to bring live-updating to user-facing forms

Projects

Rulebook.io

Sep 2017
Community-curated rulebooks for board games — with all data hosted on GitHub. Full-stack solution that uses Docker + Dokku for deployment, Node.js + Express on the back-end, Redis for caching, and React for the front-end.

TinyD20

Jun 2017
D&D dice-simulator built from the ground-up using HTML/CSS, Javascript, and the Chrome Extension API. Currently has 5000+ active users and a 5-star review (with 87 ratings) on the Chrome Web Store.

This résumé

Jul 2018
Built with React + Gatsby, using data from a resume.json file.

cambickel.com

Jul 2018
Personal website made with React + Gatsby with frequently-updated data stored in json files.

Volunteer

Big Brothers / Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay

Big Brother
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
Developed a one-on-one relationship with a local third grader by offering consistency, encouragement, and role modeling through weekly visits to the Little's school

Skills

Web Development:

React, Redux, Angular, Jest, Express, Webpack, Parcel, Enzyme, Sinon, Redis

Programming Languages:

JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Python, Java

Design:

Sketch, Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Photoshop, Draw.io, Adobe XD

Tools:

Git, Bash, Vim, JIRA
References available upon request.