Software Engineer
The Orchard is a leading music, film and video distribution company operating in over 30 markets worldwide. With a comprehensive artist & label services offering including full-service marketing, sync licensing, video services, transparent data analysis, advertising, rights management, digital and physical distribution and more, The Orchard empowers creators and businesses to grow and adapt in the dynamic global industry.
- Created functionality for clients to update metadata of releases post distribution.
- Created a unique artist catalog by overhauling the UI for capturing artist metadata and deduping the existing artist catalog.
- Implemented features required to become an Apple Preferred Plus and Spotify Preferred music distributor.
- Implemented features to support becoming one of the first companies in the music industry to become an ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) registration agency.
- Improved application performance by reducing the size of Javascript files served to clients by 75% and eliminating redundant API calls.
- Decreased build times by 66% by optimizing internationalization feature.
- Moved platform towards a single page app structure to improve performance.
- Migrated test suite to Jest.