Greg Lafrance - Cover Letter

Over 15 years in full-stack web architecture, development, software engineering. Solid hands-on experience as a senior full stack web developer and senior software engineer, delivering commercially successful products in Angular, React, TypeScript, Spring Boot, Node.js, MongoDB, SQL, vanilla JavaScript, HTML, CSS/SASS, Java, Python, and other technologies. Highly skilled in using AI tools to increase coding productivity. Currently developing expertise in AI and machine learning to utilize AI tools such as the OpenAI API, OpenAI Agent SDK, CrewAI, LangGraph, AutoGen and MCP to leverage LLM models to automate tasks and processes. Intermediate expertise in Rust with blog teaching Rust programming and authored one book on Rust programming. Extensive experience and deep knowledge of web application architecture and components, API development, and application styling, including responsive design. Expertise in prompt engineering and OpenAI API to create AI web applications. Charismatic leader, strong development and troubleshooting skills, delivering entire applications from the ground up, new features, enhancements, and bug fixes quickly and with high quality. Particularly skilled at overhauling sub-standard and in-trouble code bases. Solid leadership, mentoring and project management skills to guide teams toward building highly extensible, maintainable code bases, of high quality and on-time. Great sense of UI spatial arrangement and design, and fully embrace the importance and necessity for font/color/padding/arrangement consistency and the value of intuitive workflows. I am confident my experience, expertise and personal traits toward excellence will allow me to make significant contributions to your products, as a valuable member of your team.