Restaurant Service Contract Ruby on Rails RSpec MariaDB API Integrations

• Designed and architected a transactional system for handling user inbound payment requests.
• Implemented ground-up SOAP API integration, enabling onboarding of new business partnerships using non-RESTful point of sale systems.
• Drove initiative for improved integration testing and documentation for cross-functional application systems.
• Mentored new engineering team members through business-critical greenfield development project.

Legal Services Contract Ruby on Rails RSpec ActiveStorage Command Line Tools

• Took lead in driving, planning, and implementing platform migration for business-critical application from legacy Ruby 2.7 code base to Ruby 3.0 and above.
• Implemented ground-up SOAP API integration, enabling onboarding of new business partnerships using non-RESTful point of sale systems.
• Performed emergency migration of key business-critical integration.
• Collaborated closely with internal stakeholders including product, process and quality assurance teams.

Consumer Electronics Contract Ruby on Rails RSpec MariaDB

• Mentored junior development team in Ruby, Rails, RSpec, and best practices for backend development and testing.
• Developed in-house Ruby gem for comparing database schemas across environments.

Healthcare Network Provisioning Full Time Ruby on Rails RSpec PostgreSQL

• Worked closely with product team to rewrite business-critical calculation logic from existing legacy implementations.
• Performed deep-dive analysis and remediation on long-running bugs and product requests.

Banking and Finance Contract Ruby on Rails RSpec MySQL JSON APIs

• Performed platform mitigation on software product acquired by client.
• Leveraged included libraries and technologies to update and extend core functionality.
• Collaborated closely with permanent development team and client representatives.

E-Commerce Ticketing Full Time Ruby on Rails RSpec Cucumber PostgreSQL

• Helped drive development of core business processes during transition from monolith to service oriented architecture.
• Architected and implemented rapid resolution to emergency failure of business-critical data infrastructure during key period for business growth and continuity.
• Supported full-stack and cross-functional development teams, including React-based front-end development initiatives.

Venue Management Point Of Sale Full Time Ruby on Rails RSpec Cucumber PostgreSQL JSON APIs

• Updated and maintained mission-critical subsystems and processes across monolith and microservices architectures.
• Coordinated with front-end, admin framework and mobile client developers to minimize disruption and rapidly push out updates to core APIs.

Point Of Sale Full Time Ruby on Rails RSpec PostgreSQL React

• Core developer on agile team responsible for developing and maintaining key customer-facing services and workflows, including data modeling, server API development, and building both JavaScript-based and legacy front-end interfaces.
• Worked closely with product team to shape and refine current and upcoming feature development.

E-Commerce Fashion Full Time JavaScript Ruby on Rails RSpec PostgreSQL

• Implemented experimental front-end highlighting component allowing both internal users and data science algorithms to mark and process key customer feedback for faster and more effective fulfillment of customer orders and improved key performance metrics.
• Prototyped parallel asset pipeline infrastructure with support for modern front-end languages and features via transpilation and industry-standard technologies.

Applicant Tracking Full Time Ruby on Rails JavaScript RSpec PostgreSQL REST APIs

• Architected and applied targeted solutions to expand business logic and resolve issues in deeply connected code base spanning multiple applications and platforms.
• Supported close-knit development team and provided mentoring support and assistance to junior developers and team members.
• Participated in high-level development and architecture meetings to chart the future of the technology stack and platform.

Content Marketing Full Time Ruby on Rails MongoDB Redis RSpec Cucumber

• Rebuilt authentication system from the ground up to replace aging, insecure infrastructure with modernized and flexible architecture.
• Designed and developed integration server as adapter layer to connect core services to partner and client APIs for compliance and content promotion, with support for configurable automatic integration with external web services on a per-user or per-organization basis as part of any business process.
• Charted next-generation API for reader application, ensuring consistency in terminology for business models and both flexible and reusable implementation of functional relationships.
• Modernized aging software infrastructure to improve performance, code quality and readability, test coverage, and system flexibility.

Marketing Full Time Ruby on Rails MySQL BackboneJS SCSS RSpec

• Implemented key user-experience features and supported development with bug identification and resolution on major client-facing, deadline-constrained application integrated with major external API.
• Implemented configurable email notifications for stateful API integration, including asynchronous operations handled by external platform.
• Developed prototype of content generation tool leveraging database of marketing language and employing natural-language processing algorithms to refine generated content.
• Scaffolded authentication and administration systems for standalone conversion of platform-based service.

Translation Full Time Ruby on Rails MongoDB HAML CoffeeScript SCSS RSpec

• Performed front- and back-end development of new features, bug fixes, and systems maintenance on large e-commerce application platform.
• Collaborated with development team partners in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, and Moscow.

Game Development Full Time Flash ActionScript 3 XML Flex Starling

• Conducted major rebuilds of mission-critical, user-facing systems including user asset inventory system, user profile and personalization application, and asset sale and trading exchange.
• Developed constellation of internal tools and libraries to ensure speed and consistency in user experience, clean interactions with existing systems and APIs, and to bootstrap rapid development of new features and modules, including libraries for stateful UI, particle systems, physics engines, and event management.
• Presented design and concept proposals for new game projects, user interface enhancements, and internal tools and procedures to streamline development workflow.

Consulting Contract HTML CSS JavaScript Flash PHP Symfony WordPress

• Developed web applications and pages using standards-compliant technologies and practices in conformance with strict internal and client guidelines.
• Trained and mentored new hires in coding and development practices.
• Worked with international client groups including India, China, southeast Asia, western Europe and South America.

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering