Technical package
For engineering roles
25+ years of production web work - NY Daily News, Jackson Hewitt, Cellebrite Digital Intelligence, OUTFRONT Media - with 11 open-source repos to back every claim.
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Bryan Hamilton - Rochelle Park, NJhello@bryanhamilton.infoOpen to work · replies within the day
Bryan Hamilton: Same guy. Two ways to hire him.
25+ years building for the web - and a food service veteran ready for retail.
Web production work for
NY Daily News·
Jackson Hewitt·
Cellebrite Digital Intelligence·
OUTFRONT Media
Behind the counter at
Shake Shack·
Wawa·
Chick-fil-A·
Dunkin'·
ShopRite
Choose the Right Resume for Engineering or Retail Roles
Retail package
For team-member roles
Registers, prep, stocking and guest service at Shake Shack, Wawa, Chick-fil-A, Dunkin' and the ShopRite meat department - steady, local, long-term work from someone who shows up.
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Bryan Hamilton is a full-stack web engineer from Rochelle Park, New Jersey, with 25+ years of PHP, JavaScript and MySQL. He's built for NY Daily News, Jackson Hewitt, Cellebrite and OUTFRONT Media, and founded The DJ Calendar in 2015. From 2013 to 2020 he was a partner at Code Sharks, LLC; today he works on solo ventures. He's also available for retail and food-service roles.
Built for
NY Daily News · Cellebrite · OUTFRONT Media
Jackson Hewitt
Jackson Hewitt
Founded
The DJ Calendar (2015) — 1,000 pages, live since 2015
Community
Lead moderator, 214K+ Front-End Developer group
But he isn't just a developer who writes clean code. He's the same person who shows up early, stays until the job's done, and takes genuine pride in whatever's in front of him — whether that's architecting a PHP backend, running a register during a lunch rush, or breaking down a truck delivery in the back. The work ethic doesn't change with the job title.
Career timeline
- 1997KPMG / BearingPointWeb & database support
- 2004NY Daily NewsWeb developer
- 2015 – nowThe DJ CalendarFounder & lead developer
- 2017Jackson HewittWeb developer
- 2018CellebriteFront-end developer
- 2019OUTFRONT MediaWeb application developer
- 2023 – nowFront-End Developer groupLead moderator, 212.7K members
What people say
Bryan has a masterful ability to problem-solve complex scenarios, and was a driving force in creating our latest website. He is uniquely adept at listening to me articulate an idea, and knows exactly how to build, improve upon, and ultimately implement that idea.
Bryan is proactive, result oriented, responsible and technically sound… He has an exceptional troubleshooting and analytical skill in Web technologies, and certainly can get my full recommendation.
I have worked with Bryan for over 2 and half years and his work ethic has been exemplary… I would recommend him to any employer and they would be getting a top notch employee in return.
Open-source projects
Every repo extracted from production code. Not tutorials. Not boilerplates. The actual thing, cleaned and documented.
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LIVE DEMO
dj-card-preview
Hover a DJ card, hear the track. iTunes Search lookup + Web Audio analyser driving an 8-bar EQ, mediaSession, race-guarded generation counter. This card is the demo — click the stage above to hear it.
instant-search-index
Client-side search from a prebuilt JSON index. Scored AND matching, weighted fields, full ARIA combobox. ~1,000 pages, zero server round-trips.
jsonld-schema-audit
Zero-dependency PHP CLI that audits JSON-LD: required properties per schema.org type, every internal @id resolved, CI fails on regressions. Took 1,000 pages from hundreds of warnings to zero.
next-show-radar
Geolocation-aware tour map. Consent-first, haversine radius, race-safe Leaflet boot. Stays excellent when they say no.
tour-feed-pipeline
Bandsintown + Ticketmaster feeds normalized into one row shape, deduped, cached, pruned. CI-tested PHP 8 with contract self-tests.
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eq-visualizer
The 8-bar sensory equalizer. Pure CSS, optional 1 KB injector, reduced-motion respect. Zero JavaScript required to render.
sri-lazy-loader
Race-safe lazy script loader with Subresource Integrity. Concurrent-caller dedupe, timeout + cleanup. The bug you didn't know you had, fixed.
csrf-json-fetch
Hardened vanilla-JS JSON fetch: CSRF token caching, header + body dual injection, strict single retry on token expiry, typed errors. Zero dependencies.
event-calendar-schema
MySQL schema + PDO data layer: idempotent event upserts, double opt-in subscribers, query-shaped composite indexes. Decisions documented inline.
wp-schema-audit
WordPress port of the schema auditor: WP-CLI command, admin Tools page, and a CI self-test asserting pass and fail directions against real fixtures.
segmented-sitemaps
Crawl-budget-aware segmented sitemaps. The production sitemap listed 702 venues - 512 were dead 404s. This lists only pages that provably render, with real lastmod dates. Zero dependencies.
Latest articles
Technical writing on vanilla JavaScript, PHP, and production web patterns.
The Search Engine With Zero Server Calls
A prebuilt JSON index scored in the browser on every keystroke - weighted AND matching, ARIA combobox, zero server calls. Extracted from The DJ Calendar into an open-source repo.
Read on dev.toI Built My Portfolio Like a Piece of Rack Gear
How bryanhamilton.info became a production console: rack units, boot-flicker LEDs, a VU scroll bar - and the 16KB FTP wall and cache-header bug on the way to 99/100/100/100.
Read on dev.toFrom Hundreds of Rich Results Warnings to Zero
Roughly 1,000 pages, audited and fixed: the schema mistakes behind the warnings, the targeted patches, and what Google actually rewarded.
Read on dev.toBuilding a Real Audio Hover Preview with Zero Dependencies
How dj-card-preview works - Web Audio API analyser, iTunes Search API, canvas EQ, and the autoplay-gate pattern. No frameworks, no libraries.
Read on dev.toBuilt accessible, on purpose
This page respects your settings: everything works from the keyboard, dynamic results announce themselves through ARIA live regions, and every animation stops under prefers-reduced-motion. Accessibility isn’t a checklist bolted on at the end — it’s how the page is built.
Keyboard navigation
ARIA live regions
Reduced-motion support
Semantic HTML
Zero frameworks
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Bryan Hamilton?
- Bryan Hamilton is a full-stack web engineer based in Rochelle Park, New Jersey, with 25+ years of experience building for the web. He also offers a separate resume for retail team-member roles.
- What does Bryan Hamilton do?
- Bryan builds and maintains production websites and back ends in PHP and JavaScript, including data pipelines, search, maps and audio features. He has done web production work for NY Daily News, Jackson Hewitt, Cellebrite Digital Intelligence and OUTFRONT Media, and founded The DJ Calendar.
- Where is Bryan Hamilton located?
- Bryan Hamilton lives in Rochelle Park, New Jersey, in Bergen County, and is looking for roles he can reach or do remotely.
- What is The DJ Calendar?
- The DJ Calendar is a site for tracking the world's biggest DJs and their shows. Bryan Hamilton founded it in 2015.
- What open-source projects has Bryan Hamilton published?
- Bryan has published 11 open-source repositories on GitHub, extracted from production code. They are dj-card-preview, instant-search-index, next-show-radar, tour-feed-pipeline, eq-visualizer, sri-lazy-loader, jsonld-schema-audit, csrf-json-fetch, event-calendar-schema, wp-schema-audit and segmented-sitemaps.
- Is Bryan Hamilton available for retail work?
- Yes. Bryan has a separate retail resume covering registers, prep, stocking and customer service for team-member roles, with experience at Shake Shack, Wawa, Chick-fil-A, Dunkin' and the ShopRite meat department. Employers can choose the technical or retail resume on bryanhamilton.info.
- Is Bryan Hamilton open to remote, hybrid or on-site work?
- Yes. For web development roles, Bryan is open to remote, hybrid or on-site work. On-site roles need to be reachable by public transportation from Rochelle Park, New Jersey.
- How far will Bryan Hamilton commute?
- For web development roles, Bryan will commute by public transportation anywhere in the NYC metro area, including Manhattan, for the right role. For food-service and retail roles, he is looking for work within walking distance of Rochelle Park, New Jersey.
- When can Bryan Hamilton start?
- Immediately. Bryan is available to start right away, for web development roles as well as retail and food-service positions.
- How can I contact Bryan Hamilton?
- Email him at hello@bryanhamilton.info, book a 15-minute call on Calendly, scan the QR code on bryanhamilton.info to save his contact card, or find him on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/bryanhamiltondev, on GitHub and on dev.to.
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I have food.
Not at this exact moment. But between deploys I'm behind a counter somewhere in Bergen County — register, prep line, meat department. If the guy handing you your order starts talking about Lighthouse scores, that's me. Say hi.
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