Evansville, Indiana
KRISTOFER HOETMER
Software Engineer / GTM Engineer
Six years building and scaling production web systems — platform migrations, shared component architecture, and Python automation that turns weeks of work into days.
Experience Log
Senior Web Production Specialist
Commonwealth Financial Network — Dec 2023 — Present — Evansville, IN
- Led technical execution of two platform migrations — a 300-site custom-code CMS migration, then a CFN-to-LPL migration spanning 800+ advisor sites with zero-disruption transitions.
- Designed a reusable front-end component architecture from scratch, shipping 20+ components into a 150+ component production system.
- Engineered Python crawlers auditing 800+ properties, cutting turnaround from weeks to days and manual review by 90%+.
- Report monthly portfolio metrics tied to ~$2.1B monthly AUM, $20.8M advisor revenue, and $210K RIA revenue influenced.
- Built audience-segmented personalization logic for the firm's largest client.
- Introduced GitHub-based version control and led trainings to standardize practices across engineering teams.
Experience Log
Web Production Associate
Commonwealth Financial Network — Jan 2022 — Dec 2023 — Evansville, IN
- Built, reviewed, and launched 100+ custom-coded advisor sites.
- Resolved escalated technical issues for customer support to keep advisor-facing sites running.
- Documented development processes and led technical trainings for new hires.
Experience Log
Web & Multimedia Developer
Ergonomic Products Inc — Nov 2021 — Jan 2022 — Fall River, MA
- Managed three company websites across the Ergonomic brand family.
- Built a company intranet in PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript centralizing employee resources.
- Shot and edited multimedia content for web publication.
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WordPress Developer
RevoluSun Massachusetts — Aug 2021 — Dec 2021 — Burlington, MA
- Brought the company site to modern ADA and responsive standards.
- Maintained plugins and shipped custom features.
- Overhauled all product and resource pages.
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Producer / Director
Purdue Athletics — Aug 2020 — Jul 2021 — Lafayette, IN
- Produced and directed live BTN Student U sports broadcasts.
Core Stack
Tools of the trade
Purdue University — BFA 2021
- JavaScript
- Python
- React.js
- PHP
- HTML5
- CSS3
- Git / GitHub
- WordPress
- Multi-CMS Integration
- Migration at Scale
- Personalization Logic
- Data Automation
- ADA / Accessibility
- Technical Training
- Team Leadership
BFA, Film, Video & Theatre Production — 2018–2021. Full-stack certified.
Open Channel