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About Camille Spain

Camille Spain is founder at the eponymous digital agency, Camille K. Spain Web Design & Development. With over a decade in web development, design, and digital marketing, she helps clients create experiences that work in the digital age. She also launched a SaaS website builder for the SMB market.

Her work encompasses the full spectrum of digital presence — from brand identity to SEO to custom web applications. Her multidisciplinary background allows her to move fluidly between creative and technical domains, providing clients with insights that others might miss.

Her collaborative methodology invites clients into the process as active participants. This results in clear and authentic work where each detail reflects the client’s vision. By fostering collaborative partnerships she helps clients create lasting value.

Skills

Software Engineering

Programming Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, Python, HTML, CSS

Libraries, Frameworks, Stacks: LAMP, MERN, Flask, Sass, Astro, Gatsby

Databases: MySQL, MongoDB

Cloud: AWS, Cloudflare, Docker

Other: Software Testing, Git, Performance Optimization

CMS and Website Builders

WordPress (theme and plugin development, multisite, Gutenberg), Shopify, Squarespace, WIX, HubSpot CMS

Design

Responsive Web Design, UX, UI, Branding, Figma

Digital Marketing

SEO (search engine optimization), Copywriting, Email Marketing, Ad Campaign Management, CRO (conversion rate optimization)

Certificates

Databricks Generative AI Fundamentals badge
MongoDB Relational to Document Model skill badge
MongoDB Schema Design Patterns and Antipatterns Skill Badge
CRUD Operations in MongoDB badge
Anthropic AI Fluency: Framework and Foundations certificate
Anthropic Claude Code in Action certificate

Experience

Content Advisory Board Member

LogRocket

2023 to Present | Remote Freelance

Help craft a leading publication on frontend development

  • Review content for accuracy and industry relevance.
  • Contribute guidance on the direction of LogRocket’s content marketing.

Founder, Software Engineer, Designer, Marketer

Camille K. Spain Web Design & Development

2017 to Present | Portland, Oregon

Run a digital agency that serves small businesses, startups, and brands. Direct all digital marketing, design, and web development projects.

  • Managed 80 client projects from discovery to delivery.
  • Designed websites, branding assets, and print and digital marketing collateral that aligned with clients’ brand identity, target market(s) and business goals.
  • Launched a SaaS website builder for the SMB market utilizing WordPress multisite. This slashed agency AWS bill by 60%, reduced time spent on site maintenance by 20%, decreased number of unpaid hosting bills with automatic billing, improved client satisfaction, increased CLV (customer lifetime value), and attracted new clients.
  • Implemented and managed performance budget for website builder.
  • Deployed production and staging environments on AWS for website builder and WordPress hosting.
  • Developed and maintained 4 WordPress plugins in use on a WordPress-based SaaS platform.
  • Developed 5 full-site editing WordPress themes (block themes).
  • Developed a WordPress theme with extensive Customizer options, custom hooks, conditional styles and components, block editor styles, and WooCommerce support.

Affiliate Marketer, Copywriter

Freelance Digital Marketer

2014 to 2017 | Portland, Oregon

  • Implemented and optimized 92 online affiliate marketing campaigns in several different verticals using a paid traffic arbitrage model.
  • Researched target markets in order to develop effective affiliate marketing campaigns.
  • Optimized ad creative, copy, and landing page design via A/B testing, sequential testing, or heuristically as appropriate for the number of impressions/conversions.
  • Coded performant, mobile-friendly, conversion-focused websites and landing pages with an emphasis on modular/reusable code.
  • Wrote web copy for own campaigns and on a freelance basis, with a focus on email marketing, ad copy, and landing page copy.
  • Achieved higher than industry average search and display ad CTR of 0.31% (industry average is 0.17%), across verticals and ad networks.

Human Languages

English – Native speaker

Citizenship

United States of America

Military Experience

United States Navy | 2007 – 2011

Education

Oregon Institute of Technology Wilsonville | Sep 2013 – Aug 2014 | Software Engineering

Chemeketa Community College Salem | 2013 | Associate General Studies

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