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Makesi Hamilton

Software Developer

Turning problems into production-grade solutions that teams actually want to maintain.

Experience

Each role includes queryable AI context—the real story behind the bullet points.

Application Developer — Georgia Tech (EE Department)

March 2024 – Present

Resume summary context: Migrated mission-critical departmental web applications and data across hosting environments with measurable performance gains.

Integrated an LLM with read only access to our DB. This allowed end users to retrieve information with natural language.
Migrated VIP’s webman application from legacy servers and AWS to OIT’s Plesk hosting service, coordinating dev/test/prod/demo environments with GitHub version control.
Improved VIP web application response time from minutes to seconds; all pages now load in under 5 seconds.
Maintained and shipped features on a production stack including RHEL Linux, Apache, MySQL, Oracle, and PHP.
Executed database migration from MySQL to Oracle using data design and an ETL process.
Authored documentation for cloud hosting, migration steps, and local operational procedures to improve maintainability and continuity.
Migrated VIP’s Drupal website to WordPress and migrated data from AWS to EE’s internal servers.

Software Developer — MacStadium (Atlanta, GA)

Aug 2021 – Feb 2023

Delivered UI enhancements in a React frontend and implemented feature requests across internal and customer-facing applications.
Retrieved, formatted, and persisted data from MySQL for front-end display across two stacks: Laravel/PHP (internal) and Node.js (TypeScript) + GraphQL + React (external).
Integrated and maintained APIs for Salesforce (customer data), Chargebee (financial data), and Jira (ticketing), improving cross-system data consistency.
Implemented data visualization using Google Charts; validated APIs and workflows using Postman.
Worked in containerized/tested environments with Docker and Jest; deployed workloads on AWS.

Software Developer — KyckGlobal (Atlanta, GA)

Jan 2020 – Aug 2021

Led the integration of the platform with FiServ for initial push-to-card and push-to-account capabilities with Visa.
Integrated and maintained SaaS connections with payment processors including FiServ, PayPal, Incomm, and Visa.
Delivered UI enhancements to an Angular frontend supporting payments workflows.
Designed DynamoDB tables and improved performance by converting expensive scans to queries where applicable.
Worked in an AWS-deployed stack: Angular, Node.js, DynamoDB, Golang, PostgreSQL; tracked work with Jira and version control with Bitbucket/Git.

Software Developer — Senegal (Atlanta, GA)

Mar 2017 – Dec 2019

Built features and debugged a multi-tenant web platform on Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Laravel (PHP).
Mentored interns through feature/bug delivery and conducted code reviews to improve quality and throughput.
Developed internal APIs for storing and retrieving files from Rackspace cloud storage.
Delivered front-end enhancements using Vue, Bootstrap, and JavaScript; created data visualizations with Google Charts.
Used Git/GitHub for version control and team collaboration.

Independent Contractor

Aug 2023 – Feb 2024

Delivered contract work across multiple stacks including MySQL + Laravel (PHP), MySQL + Node.js (TypeScript) + React, and MySQL + Python (Flask).
Queried databases to produce analytics outputs and charts in Microsoft Power BI and Tableau.
Adapted quickly across environments by standardizing data access patterns and focusing on readable, maintainable delivery.

Skills Matrix

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STRONG ✓

PHP Python MySQL JavaScript Node.js

MODERATE ○

React Angular AWS Oracle

GAPS ✗

Servers at scale

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