Software Engineer at Playdom
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Software Engineer at Playdom
- Past
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- Chief Internet Architect at Qik
- Lead Technology Developer at The Point
- Web Software Engineer at CashNetUSA
- Senior Web Developer at Fitch Ratings
- Software Development Consultant at Imagination Publishing
- Senior Web Consultant at Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C.
- Senior Web Developer at Deluxe Media Management
- Director of Information Systems at PC Pros Information Staffing
- Education
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- Musicians Institute of Technology
- New Trier Township High School
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Brendan Avery Baldwin’s Summary
Mission Objectives:
* Seek out and join forces with other real ultimate code ninjas and wiley web wizards to form Web 2.1 Voltron, with monetization strategy
* Deliver devastatingly elegant Ruby, JavaScript, and XHTML/CSS scripting attacks with lazer-focused intensity
* Generate bleeding-edge dynamic web products to usher in a golden age of total planetary happiness
* Get really really rich
Brendan Avery Baldwin’s Specialties:
Recruiting, Staffing, Human Resources, Entertainment, Television, Film, Internet, New Media, Magazine Publishing, Financial, Investment
Brendan Avery Baldwin’s Experience
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Software Engineer
Playdom
(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Design and development for Playdom.com and inter-game trading and community features. Lots of JavaScript/jQuery and PHP (using phpspec for BDD) and introduced Cucumber+Selenium+Webrat to drive application design and acceptance testing.
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Chief Internet Architect
Qik
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
May 2008 — March 2009 (11 months)
Driving development efforts and strategy for web applications architecture at Qik.com. Developed and implemented application and database service clusters. Managing the conversion from single-environment first-gen architecture to distributed SOA, and implementing a fully RESTful API supporting ActiveResource and oAuth. Working with a team of top engineers, designers, and business mavens around the world.
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Lead Technology Developer
The Point
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 5 months)
Architecting and developing a social-networking and action-organization application written from the ground-up in Rails. Lots of work on Rails internals and plugins development. Working with a small agile team of 5 other coders.
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Web Software Engineer
CashNetUSA
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)
July 2006 — January 2007 (7 months)
Ruby on Rails developer with special emphasis on Front-end/AJAX/HTML/CSS goodness. It's my goal to optimize the user experience of our website and backend applications as well as build tools and libraries for the team as a whole.
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Senior Web Developer
Fitch Ratings
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)
August 2005 — May 2006 (10 months)
Worked on the FitchRatings.com website and internal ColdFusion applications. Lots of work with XML/XSLT, ColdFusion, and some Java. Tons of Javascript and CSS, and did some training/presentations on web-standards, scripting, and library architecture.
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Software Development Consultant
Imagination Publishing
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year)
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Senior Web Consultant
Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Capital Markets industry)
April 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 4 months)
Web Applications Architect/Consultant. Built ColdFusion recruiting and HR applications with SQL Server back-end. Lots of integration with Peoplesoft and there was some PHP work too. I did quite a bit of DHTML in this position and honed my ninja skills in terms of front-end DOM manipulation and AJAXian coding.
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Senior Web Developer
Deluxe Media Management
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; RNK; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
November 1998 — November 2003 (5 years 1 month)
Designed, developed, and maintained several B2B and public/consumer websites aimed at promoting motion picture and television properties. This included creating online storefronts for merchandise, metadata-rich asset-management systems for the studios to manage related materials, and a variety of support systems. This was done using technologies such as PHP, ColdFusion, JSP, ASP, Flash, Javascript, SQL-Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, WindowsNT, Apache, and IIS.
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Director of Information Systems
PC Pros Information Staffing
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry)
September 1996 — November 1999 (3 years 3 months)
Designed, developed, and maintained internal applications and public-facing web sites for recruiting operations and client services for a 10+ year old staffing company. Started with client-server Visual Basic and SQL Server, migrating to ASP, and finally ColdFusion for rapid development. Installed and managed a network of 20+ servers and workstations (Windows NT). Managed two IT employees, who performed additional development and network support tasks.
Brendan Avery Baldwin’s Education
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Musicians Institute of Technology
Doctor of Rock , Guitar/Bass , 1994 — 1995
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New Trier Township High School
High School , 1989 — 1993
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Brendan Avery Baldwin’s Interests:
Genetic Algorithms, Cryptography, Artificial Intelligence, Ruby, Rails, Language-Oriented Development, Lisp, Psychology, Conspiracy Theories, Eschatology
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