Jesper Hodge

- Led a team of engineers and content specialists to deliver an MVP to their first clients- Planned and built an MVP on the tech and business side- Created a business strategy that identified a target audience and persona and crafted an MVP that provided a solution to their market needs

Software Engineer for RTL News / rtl.de, a major German news platform with 200k-2M page visits per day.- Created new Video Playlist feature that increased performance over previous tool- Designed and implemented a Persistence / Cache storage layer for articles in MongoDB that significantly improved page performance, which increased page visits and thus revenue- Implemented a range of frontend performance, Core Web Vitals, and SEO improvements that increased page visits and revenue- Implemented new features

- Tech consultant on the company's largest client project, a vendor portal, for a major international retail chain- As a React expert, led the migration of the whole project from jQuery to React- Proposed, designed, and implemented a React component library for the project that fully solved the migration problems and client complaints the team was previously facing- Created a complex data table component that allows cell editing, versioning, commenting and revising- Lead developer for a team of 3 over 2 mon