# Taj Calles > Senior Software Engineer at Pedestal PRO Location: Springville, Utah, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tajcalles Full-stack Software Engineer | Laravel | TypeScript | Vue | PHP | Ruby on Rails ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Pedestal PRO Jan 2025 – Present • Solely architected and implemented an advanced security management system for blue light devices, featuring customizable lighting control and presets, aimed at enhancing safety across college campuses nationwide. • Spearheaded all technical discussions and system design decisions, collaborating with executives and cross-disciplinary teams to align project goals and deliver a robust, scalable solution from the ground up. • Independently designed and developed user interfaces and backend services using a modern tech stack, including Laravel, Vue.js, and AWS EC2, to streamline complex workflows and enhance user experience across distributed hardware deployments. • Led the integration of real-time device management features, including status monitoring and automated diagnostics, demonstrating exceptional problem-solving skills and leadership in ensuring campus safety and operational efficiency. ### Full Stack Engineer @ Pedestal PRO Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 - Developed and optimized full-stack web applications using Laravel and Vue.js, resulting in a 30% improvement in load times and a smoother user experience for thousands of end-users. - Implemented complex API integrations using Laravel, enabling seamless data exchange between frontend Vue.js components and backend services, which reduced API response times by 20%. - Enhanced and refactored existing Vue.js components to improve code efficiency and maintainability, resulting in a 20% reduction in component rendering times and a 15% decrease in reported frontend bugs. - Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and develop dynamic user interfaces with Vue.js while ensuring robust backend functionality with Laravel, leading to a 15% increase in customer satisfaction scores. ### Lead Software Engineer @ Praxis Olympic Weightlifting Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | South Jordan, Utah, United States Full-stack software engineering using Laravel/Wordpress/Vue JS ### Senior Software Engineer @ Software Technology Group Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Contracts: Domo Inc. (Vue.JS, Laravel, Docker, PHP, HTML, CSS) - Led the development of 15 unique webpages using Vue.js, Laravel, PHP, Docker, HTML, and CSS, resulting in an enhanced user experience and improved performance. - Spearheaded a full site style rebuild in preparation for Domopalooza, a prominent networking event, ensuring a visually appealing and cohesive design across the entire website. - Thrived in a timely and fast-paced environment, consistently delivering high-quality code and meeting project deadlines, while maintaining strict adherence to coding best practices and industry standards. - Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including engineers and product managers, to gather requirements, discuss technical solutions, and ensure seamless integration of features, resulting in a cohesive and robust web application. - Demonstrated strong problem-solving skills, resolving complex technical issues, optimizing application performance, and implementing scalable solutions to enhance the overall software architecture. Leadership Responsibilities Within STG - Performed numerous technical interviews for software engineer applicants at STG - Made key contributions in developing internal tools, exams, and curriculum for our software engineers ### Software Engineer @ MX Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Lehi, Utah, United States - Developed and maintained jobs and workers to collect and organize client data for financial institutions. - Working on our APIs team, fixed numerous issues and bugs in both production as well as with our internal tools. - Built an internal payment processor manager, helping our teams train and test a key part of our platform APIs. - TDD-focused coding–wrote numerous comprehensive rspec tests for our backend development ### Software Engineer @ Inside Real Estate Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Murray, Utah, United States - Worked with a small team to rebuild our entire CRM into an SPA using Nuxt.js, resulting in a 5x speed increase. - Built new features for our template websites for our agents to utilize and customize their custom pages, greatly increasing product value - Optimized our API by implementing performant SQL queries, improving the performance of our platform. - Helped write and improve hundreds of unit tests for our kvCORE API, refactored code to achieve 100% test coverage for the entire repository. - Designed Vue components with highest industry standards of UI/UX ### Software Developer @ Nui Social Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Lehi, Utah, United States - Developed a cryptocurrency trading platform using Laravel/PHP/Vue, as well as a digital wallet for trading Kala and other coins. - Played an integral role in designing software to “know our customers”--approving good customers and identifying potentially risky businesses/customers. - Created a platform for vendors to advertise and collaborate with our company by attaching cryptocurrency values to coupons and deals. - Integrated REST API’s across multiple company applications. - Worked closely with our CTO to scope and plan major projects, and always executed them in a timely manner. ### Software Developer Internship @ DevPoint Studios Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Salt Lake City Area - Built key endpoints in Ruby on Rails along with other backend code to solidify the foundation of ModCom's product. - Designed key features of our application to meet functionality specifications set by our CTO. - Worked with our team to program video and audio capturing features into our app. - Developed key React components that allowed our users to upload client-tailored sales content in an Agile development environment. - Instructed our team on QA standards/testing to ensure ModCom code met the highest industry standards of excellence. ### Patient Service Representative @ Sutter North Medical Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Murray, UT - Scheduled appointments, ordered prescriptions, and managed insurance for 7 different MD’s and PA’s. - Handled emergent patient situations with composure and poise, dispatching proper medical personnel where necessary. - Conducted medical office business, using professional conversation with triage nurses, physicians, and pharmacists. ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/taj-calles-907836149 --- Source: https://flows.cv/tajcalles JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tajcalles/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29