About
DavidEliasFurman
Elias is my middle name, and it’s the name on everything I make outside the day job.
Most of my photographs are close up (petals, feathers, leaves, glass), set on pure black or pure white with one strong color. I make digital art. I build games: Reactor for iOS, and now Fracture, coming soon to Android. And I write: Rebranding is my first novel.
By day I’m a front-end architect, with more than twenty years of building for the web.
“My primary objective is to develop technologies that improve people’s lives.”
Résumé
Front-end architect · 20+ years · Knoxville, Tennessee
Experience
- 2022 – now
Principal Front End Architect
Blue Sky Commerce
Leads the front end of a Next.js storefront for high-volume retailers: a perfect Lighthouse score, automated accessibility testing and a CI/CD pipeline.
- 2021 – 2022
Principal Front End Architect
Achieve Internet
Rebuilt the core product as an API-driven React single-page app, cutting load times by 75%, and set up its CSS-in-JS theming.
- 2015 – 2021
Lead Front End Developer
The Tombras Group
Built custom work for global brands, side by side with UX teams from concept to launch.
- 2006 – 2018
Vice President / CTO
Spruz Inc. & Skysa Inc.
Set the technical direction for both companies’ products, with a focus on user experience and cross-device design.
Own projects
- 2013 – 2015
An iOS game, from concept to the App Store.
Tools
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Vue
- AngularJS
- Node.js
- HTML
- CSS & Sass
- PHP
- Git
- CI/CD
- Storybook
- Jira
Volunteer
- Freedom’s Hope Ministry, technology adviser, 2007 – now. Disaster and humanitarian relief.
- KARM (Knoxville Area Rescue Ministries), volunteer.