Curtis Black
Full Stack Software Engineer And Team Lead - Zangerine at Descartes Systems Group
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCurtis Black is a Full Stack Software Engineer and team lead with 11 years of experience building and modernizing SaaS systems, currently driving architecture and delivery for Zangerine at Descartes Systems Group. He combines hands-on PHP and JavaScript development (including upgrades from PHP 5.7 to 8.1 and MySQL 5.7 to 8.0) with practical DevOps—implementing GitHub Actions CD pipelines and AWS-based infrastructure for resilience and secure logging. Curtis has led and mentored small engineering teams, negotiated contract renewals and raises, and delivered marketplace integrations such as Shopify connectors. His background in business administration and early hands-on roles in web design and logistics supervision gives him a pragmatic, customer-focused approach to solving product and operational challenges. He also runs a real estate investment venture, demonstrating entrepreneurial initiative and negotiation experience beyond engineering.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Business Administration Entrepreneurship, Bachelor's Degree Business Administration Entrepreneurship at University of Nevada-Las VegasHigh School Diploma Mathematics, High School Diploma Mathematics at Cimarron-Memorial Highschool
Github Skills (19)
react-components9
material-ui9
react9
rest-api8
php8
material-design8
validation8
cakephp8
form-builder7
mvc-framework7
react-component-library7
mvc7
rapid-development7
orm7
frontend7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
curtisblack2004/CakePHP-Full-Calendar-Plugin
Apr 2016 - Feb 2019
Event Calendar Plugin for CakePHP 3.x
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 10 months
cakephp
curtisblack2004/skills-build-applications-w-copilot-agent-mode
Apr 2025 - Apr 2025
Exercise: Build my application with Copilot agent mode
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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