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# Marketing Analytics Platform - Multi-touch Attribution

- **Company:** Convertro
- **Industry:** Advertising & AdTech
- **Dates:** Jul 2012 – Jan 2019

In 2012, Convertro wanted to take the MVP built during the company's founding
and reimagine it as a product that could scale to millions of dollars in
monthly-recurring revenue. Convertro needed someone who could handle both the
architectural design requirements and the technical implementation. Variable
provided [Jared Scott](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredmscott/) to Convertro
to fulfill the need.

After joining Convertro, Jared spent a few weeks understanding the market space
and direction, then deep-dived on the existing product. With that knowledge in
hand, he began architecting a new solution using SaaS principles. He used
Django in the middle tier to provide an API layer that the front end (built
with BackboneJS) could consume. Django's admin console was customized so
non-technical team members could contribute to content management.

Jared also introduced Highcharts with a custom layer that let Product Managers
build dashboards for new products with minimal technical oversight.

Over the next six years, Jared grew the engineering team working on the
dashboard to six members and helped teach and manage them as Director of UI
Development and Interaction Design. Toward the end of the contract, he
introduced React components to replace the navigation bar and began migrating
the codebase from CoffeeScript to native ES6.
