Project Details#
In addition to internal application work, I led front-end development on the public Drees Homes website, managing a small team of developers, running bi-weekly code reviews, and handling weekly deployments throughout my tenure.
Incremental Modernization#
The website ran on a legacy PHP stack. Rather than rewriting it all at once, we took an incremental approach: rebuilding individual page templates in Nuxt and using Nginx rewrite rules to proxy specific URLs to a separate Nuxt server. Each modernized page pulled data from the same API the legacy PHP page had used, so the transition was seamless to visitors and required no changes to the underlying data layer.
This let us ship improved pages continuously without a disruptive full migration, and gave us a repeatable pattern for moving the rest of the site forward over time.
Recognition#
In spring 2019, I was awarded the Top Caliber Award for Outstanding Performance by the VP of Marketing and the Systems Architect Manager, recognizing contributions to the company website and the 90th anniversary projects.
About Drees Homes#
Drees Homes is a multi-billion dollar private homebuilder founded in 1928, building new homes across the United States. The public website served prospective buyers across multiple markets and was a core part of how the company presented itself to customers nationwide.