at Jackrabbit
San Francisco Bay Area
at Jackrabbit
San Francisco Bay Area
Senior web developer and software engineer with over seven years experience in producing dynamic websites and web applications.
Ruby on Rails, MYSQL, XHTML/CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript, Linux, AWS, TDD, Background Processing, Screen Scraping
(Computer Software industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
Lead developer. Working on numerous ruby based projects.
- Built a hotel reservation engine
- Ruby DSL to speed up the creation & maintenance of 100's of recipes for pulling data from our partners.
- Scalable Nanite/AMQP based message queue to handle massive background processing load (millions/day)
- Moved all company applications & services to EC2 with Rightscale
(Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 2 months)
Used Ruby on Rails to build various parts of the site (Local, To-Do Lists, Ask and Answer, etc). Did lot's of front end work using HAML/SASS/Compass.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
March 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 8 months)
Using Java to build the company's proof-of-concept prototype, I created web-based software to help doctors easily visualize potential interactions between multiple prescription drugs, and botanicals. Worked with another developer on a rewrite in Ruby on Rails and Flash.
(Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 3 months)
Created a web-based application that streamlines inventory purchasing from multiple vendors, replacing an outsourced system that cost the company close to 25K per month. The solution combined a Ruby on Rails interface to distributed Ruby, pushing content to the browser with Comet.
(Broadcast Media industry)
November 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 8 months)
Lead developer for the new website of this nationally syndicated radio program. Using Ruby on Rails.
(Internet industry)
September 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 3 months)
Perl/PHP/Rails programming, and XHTML/CSS build outs for local sites.
(Internet industry)
April 2005 — September 2005 (6 months)
Built a podcasting system for independent musicians with Ruby on Rails.
(Internet industry)
April 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 4 months)
Lead PHP developer for various government and business sites, including http://www.newmexico.org and http://www.governor.state.nm.us/
(Internet industry)
January 2001 — January 2002 (1 year 1 month)