Eric Pfeiffer

Eric Pfeiffer

Full Stack Developer & Linux Enthusiast

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Recent Works

Chicago Real Estate Forum
Tailwind CSSWinter CMS

Chicago Real Estate Forum

Real Estate listings website built with in-house custom CMS as the back-end and custom front-end Tailwind CSS design. Due to the amount of listings in the chicago area, there were website design scaling issues that had to be overcome in order to deal with handling over 50k listings and over 1 million images.

Coastal Premier Properties
Tailwind CSSWordPress

Coastal Premier Properties

Front-end rebuild using Tailwind CSS and WordPress back-end. Elementor was also used to allow the client to easily make updates to existing pages and easily create new ones which follow the rest of the website design.

Downtown Franklin Family Dentistry
Tailwind CSSWordPress

Downtown Franklin Family Dentistry

Family dentistry website built with WordPress and Tailwind CSS. Elementor was used to build some aspects of pages to allow client to edit page content if desired, reducing the need to ask a developer to make changes.

Macktown Construction
Tailwind CSSWordPress

Macktown Construction

Illinois based re-modeler website built with WordPress and custom Tailwind CSS design. The Gutenberg editor was used for each page, allowing the client to edit most aspects of every page's content. I also created some custom Gutenberg blocks with React JS to add functionality needed for the client's website that is not included by default.

Nationwide Transportation
Tailwind CSSWordPress

Nationwide Transportation

My first website created with Tailwind CSS which was for an Illinois based logistics company built with WordPress for the backend. Gutenberg editor was used to allow the client to edit pages easily by themselves.

Gerstad Builders
FoundationWinter CMS

Gerstad Builders

Front-end rebuild, and a back-end migration to an updated version of the in-house CMS for a Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin based homebuilder. The blog functionality is powered by headless Wordpress and rendered directly from within the in-house CMS.

Hakes Brothers
FoundationWinter CMS

Hakes Brothers

Homebuilder website built on in-house CMS with 3rd party data integrations syncing data from Mark Systems (IHMS) to allow the client to fully automate website data updates. The client just needs to update the data in their Homebuilder software and changes to synced to the website automatically.

Experience

  • Creative Sizzle

    Lead Web Developer

    Arlington Heights, IL | - Present
    • Rebuilt legacy custom-made CMS which is now based on Laravel / Winter CMS
    • Decreased server resources needed with the newly rebuilt CMS: page load times were reduced by 70%.
    • Improved the speed and capabilities to create client specific functionality into our CMS.
    • Use Github Actions to automate code testing and improve reliability.
    • Setup, maintained, and monitored all of the production servers/infrastructure.
    • Converted office infrastructure from on-premise Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange server to a fully remote setup on GSuite (Google Workspace) allowing fully remote workflows.

  • Electrical Systems & Services

    IT Contractor

    Sturtevant, WI | - Present
    • Supported employee workstations and fixed issues as they arose.
    • Upgraded Windows Active Directory from server 2003 to 2016.
    • Migrated Fortinet firewall to PfSense.
    • Supported the company's on-prem mail server.
    • Migrated from bare-metal Windows server to type-1 hypervisor running XCP-NG allowing services to be split up among multiple VMs (virtual machines). running Windows and Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS) servers.

  • Beakon Labs, LLC

    PHP Developer/Devops Engineer

    Remote Internship | -
    • Setup, configure, and deploy all backend infrastructure using AWS for hosting and Laravel as the backend framework for the Nightstir mobile app.
    • Automated code deployment and testing using CI/CD pipelines.
    • Used Dokku as a self-hosted heroku-like infrastructure allowing all of the back-end code to be deployed with buildpacks and dependencies defined within the git repo so builds were repeatable and predictable.

  • DePaul University

    B.S. Computer Science

    Chicago, IL | -
    • Concentration in Software Engineering
    • Member of Fundamental Research in Academic Gaming (DeFRAG)

Skills

Web Development

User Experience

Linux Server Administration

Technologies & Software

Languages

  • SCSS/CSS

    90%

  • JS

    70%

  • SQL

    80%

  • PHP

    90%

Frameworks

  • Laravel

    80%

  • Winter CMS / October CMS

    95%

  • Tailwind CSS

    90%

Tools

  • PhpStorm

    95%

  • Git

    90%

  • Linux

    90%